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Source: Guardian.co.tt- Former Jamaican ambassador Curtis A Ward has warned that Trinidad and Tobago is now firmly “in the crosshairs” and is likely to face serious fallout for what he describes as its unreserved support of United States military actions against Venezuela, while sharply criticising Caribbean leaders for what he called weakness and fear in the face of Washington.
In a strongly worded post published on Boxing Day yesterday, Ward accused the Government of Trinidad and Tobago of aligning itself with US efforts aimed at regime change in Venezuela, arguing that this decision has placed the country’s people, infrastructure and economy at grave risk.
“Persad-Bissessar has placed a military target on the backs of the country and the people,” Ward wrote, asserting that T&T now faces consequences far greater than any short-term benefits derived from closer ties with Washington.
“It is a scenario in which more Trinidadian and Tobagonian than American citizens could be killed.”
Ward, a former ambassador and deputy permanent representative of Jamaica to the United Nations, claimed that Trinidad and Tobago’s support for the US has elevated it from a traditional security partner to an active collaborator in a military strategy against Venezuela.
He warned that the installation of a US military radar system at the country’s international airport has transformed critical civilian infrastructure into a legitimate military target.
“The T&T government made the airport perimeter a military target,” Ward said. “It has put T&T’s international civilian airport, which is integral to the country’s economy, in jeopardy – a target on her back, T&T in the crosshairs.”
According to Ward, the radar system is not designed for civilian or maritime monitoring, as initially suggested, but is instead a war asset integrated into an anti-missile response network.
In the event of escalation, he said, neutralising that system would be a priority for the Venezuelan military.
“What Venezuela has to offer is of far greater importance than what T&T has to offer the United States in the long term,” Ward added, referring to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves and strategic location.
Beyond the risks to T&T, Ward also launched a critique of regional leadership, accusing Caribbean heads of government of remaining silent out of fear of US retaliation.
“There is not even a discernible whisper of opposition or criticism from most Caribbean leaders,” he wrote. “Some cower in fear of retaliation by the Trump administration.
They lack courage. They compromise the dignity and what is left of their countries’ sovereignty.”
Ward said the principle of non-interference was being used as a shield for inaction, while the region drifted closer to a broader military conflict that could destabilise the Caribbean basin.
While warning that the tipping point toward conflict may already have been crossed, Ward said Caribbean leaders still had a responsibility to speak out in favour of dialogue and peace.
“War is not the answer. War is not the only option. And war is not inevitable,” he said, urging both regional governments and citizens of T&T, at home and in the diaspora, to oppose military escalation.
Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar has publicly supported US strikes on vessels it said were involved in drug trafficking from Venezuela, saying she and “most of the country” were pleased that the US naval deployment was “having success in their mission.”
She had said the efforts were already having an impact on illegal activity in T&T.
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WHAT THE HELL…! …PESSIMISTS: AND …PROPHETS OF DOOM
INTELLECTUALS: …THE GRAVE AND GRAVEST: PEACE-SOME DAY: …ZONE AND VALLEY
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To the ‘…INTELLECTUALS,’ that which appears to be the ‘…GRAVE CONCERNS: are
(i) ‘…WAR: and
(ii) …PEACE IN THE ZONE,’
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ZONE AND THE VALLEY
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Most appear to be relying on:
(a) ‘…PEACE IN THE ZONE: than
(b) …PEACE IN THE VALLEY.’
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NOW:
While ‘…WAR’ is ‘…GRAVE,’ still, the ‘…GRAVEST OF ALL,’ has been ‘…VENEZUELAN OIL.’
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TRANSFIXED ON VENEZUELAN OIL
Most importantly, these ‘INTELLECTUALS,’ have all appeared to have been ‘…TRANSFIXED ON VENEZUELAN OIL’ [Paragraph 7].
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This has often been the case with:
(a) ‘…INTELLECTUALS: who
(b) …HAVE CAUSED THEMSELVES TO BE VIEWED: as
(c) …PESSIMISTS: and
(d) …PROPHETS OF DOOM.’
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THE QUESTIONS:
(i) ‘…WHO DICTATES FOR ANY COUNTRY: its
(a) ‘…WO DECIDES ON FOREIGN POLICY: and
(b) …WHO DETERMINES FOREIGN RELATIONS WITH OTHER NATIONS?’
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WHAT THE HELL…!
Well, ‘…MILITARY OR WORDS,’ after ‘…WAR,’ comes ‘…PEACE.’
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SOME DARN GOOD DAY:
There will be ‘…PEACE.
It is much, and far better in the ‘…VALLEY.’
GOOD FOR YOU AND ME. …SOME DAY.
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The last time regime change was done by military might ignoring the covert CIA election financing to install marionette, was in 1983 I think in Grenada, and the Caribbean leaders that sided with the same USA army regime was this very Antigua and Barbuda prime minister the late V. C Bird and Dominica late prime minister euginia charles, and they were more despicable than prime minister persad bissesa our of Trinidad, I could vividly recall when Reagan push the late euginia charles to a podium at the white house lawn on CNN cameras saying she needed help in Grenada, a country where she doesn’t live, that she needed the USA army to go in and supposedly rescue someone or something, that something was the massive infrastructure and airport development been carried out by the late prime minister bishop of Grenada, I shouldn’t say late because he was extant at the time, and the late V.C Bird reiterate the same as euginia charles and even sent the Antigua defence force to help with the murder of prime minister Bishop, and now how ironical that these same two countries later generation of leaders are paying for the sins of it’s past leaders, Antigua and Dominica.
It is better to live in peace and love than to do evil because it always comes back to hurt you. Whatever CIP or any money scheme in confiscating white property won’t go down well with white hegemony.
I hope this joker also stand up for the Guyanese people, because Maduro is trying to claim 70% of Guyana as we speak.
Leave the damn woman alone, she did nothing wrong. Bout pay..pay what? she will go down in history as a hero.
Strong leaders like the T&T Prime Minister are needed in the Caribbean. Caricom has supported Maduro to benefit from financial gain at the expense of the Venezuelan people. Caricom countries have to vote at the UN alongside Venezuela, it is Pay to Play. It’s time Caricom get on board with US policy, right is right and there is a lot of wrong in Venezuela. Don’t sell your soul for a few pieces of silver. And to think just recently Maduro was threatening to invade Guyana. SHAME ON CARICOM!
She will go down in history as a loser when they vote her out next election, and when the US is finished using her and TNT they will just be discarded.
Wait and see.
So what will the Caribbean gain by supporting the US? Everything America does, it’s to her/his own benefit… nothing else! Caribbean leaders need to bond together and sing the same tune. We need to free our enslaved minds, from the colonialism mentality and have our own voices. It’s better that 10 fight 1 than the other way around.
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