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Our honourable Prime Minister, Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar, decided to mount a tiger to get access to the promised riches of the Dragon.
We need the gas from the Dragon Field because our local output and reserves are declining, and we will be in a crisis by 2027. We also need it to sustain our voracious appetite for foreign exchange.
(via UNC.)
Despite the comments we see on Facebook and other news sites, we are one nation. While the maps of the Elections and Boundaries Commission’s electoral results may show a sharp division of voting preferences, we are not living in separate communities.
According to the same electoral results, people who vote for different parties live side by side.
It is folly for our government to believe it can govern for its people and force others to submit to its agenda. While it may be psychologically soothing to appear to be dominating or punishing the opposite party, the pain is also felt by ordinary people, who voted for them.
Photo: OPM.
We witness what are essentially government announcements posted first on the governing party’s social media page. Parliament is now a mockery. Every day is another chaotic affair, unseen before except during Covid.
We saw what is essentially a coup in the naming of the chief justice. In her statement about the process, Mrs Bissessar said: “I agree Your Excellency should select a judge from the Court of Appeal bench to replace Chief Justice Ivor Archie. I have no preference.”
The process does not require either the prime minister or the opposition leader to state a preference.
(via Office of the President.)
We have passed the buck for appointing the person to the third-highest position in the land, without the care of naming the nominee. Those who noted the one-day consultation period when CJ Archie was appointed fail to mention that CJ Satnarine Sharma had been on a three-month leave before retirement.
We were greeted with a jaw-dropping response from the Prime Minister when the Law Association had the temerity to object to the process. How we miss a Reginald Dumas to challenge the concept and practice of consultation at the Privy Council level.
We can itemise other instances of unorthodox behaviour, but it is more fruitful to examine the possible roots.
Twenty days before the General Elections, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed then-Prime Minister Stuart Young that the US had revoked two OFAC licences for offshore gas projects with Venezuela.
Three months after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar declared the Dragon gas deal “dead” —and five months after the revocation of the two Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) licences to explore the Dragon and Cocuina-Manakin fields in Venezuelan waters—the United States government reversed its decision.
The timing of the withdrawal of the licences brings to mind the James Comey-Hillary Clinton affair. To this day, there are arguments about the importance of that decision to outcome of the US election.
What effect did the withdrawal of those licences have on our elections? Nobody knows. But we do know that despite Young’s affirmation, he was not a ‘bestie’ with Rubio. Mrs Persad Bissessar is.
Look at what Rubio got! While hugging up Mrs Bissessar, a mandatory share of the proceeds for US companies was inserted into the deal. We should keep our eyes open. Our Point Fortin plant may eventually only get a fee for processing the gas into liquids.
Rubio upstaged Richard Grenell, who was originally working the Venezuela issue. Mr Grenell and his supporters argued that diplomatic negotiation was the best way to protect American economic interests in Venezuela.
(via El Nacional.)
Grenell had squared off against Rubio over various issues in this administration, including how to get Nicolas Maduro to release American hostages. Grenell got some US hostages freed, but that was not enough.
Rubio’s position was simple. Mr Rubio argues that Mr Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to the United States, which he says poses an “imminent threat”.
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has long argued that removing Maduro from power will weaken Venezuela’s close ally, the Communist government in Cuba. The intelligence agency’s director, John Ratcliffe, and Stephen Miller, Mr Trump’s chief domestic policy adviser, both support Mr Rubio’s approach.
Copyright: AP Photo/ Ariana Cubillos.
“Trump had, in many conversations and in meetings with different people, emphasised that he really only cared about [Venezuela’s] oil,” said a US businessman with longstanding ties to Venezuela and close knowledge of the White House’s policy. “But Rubio was able to drum up this ‘narco-terrorist’ rhetoric and get Trump to pivot completely. The U-turn really reflects Rubio’s expanded influence in the administration.”
Cuba has long been a target for political reasons in Florida.
Now, it is part of the reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine. Angelo Rivero Santos, a Latin American studies professor at Georgetown University and former diplomat in Venezuela’s embassy in Washington, commented:
“It’s not only Venezuela. When you look at their statements on the Panama Canal, at the impositions of tariffs on Brazil, the latest spat with the Colombian government, not to mention the military presence in the Caribbean.”
It is in this context that one connects Cuba to the Venezuelan situation. The desire is to have more Trump-friendly leadership in the Caribbean.
Would Trinidad and Tobago, under Young, have agreed to such a plan to remove the leadership of both Venezuela and Cuba?
Rubio met with five Venezuelan opposition leaders in May who secretly fled to the United States, and he has praised the opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, the “Venezuelan Iron Lady”.
María Corina Machado, the leader of the Vente Venezuela opposition group, openly supports the idea of foreign military intervention to unseat Maduro. She partly blamed drug cartels that she said represent a shadow power network within the country for the failure of the uprising during Trump’s first term.
It should be noted that both Maduro and Corina Machado hold the same position about Venezuela’s claim on Essequibo.
This Rubio-Corina Machado connection may explain why she complimented President Trump after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
How much did our Prime Minister know about the larger plan of regime change when she embraced the narrative about drug-running pirogues? Did she forget our Coast Guard man who died in a drug submarine in March?
Senior police sources who have been assisting in the investigation said that the semi-submersible, or low-profile vessel, also known as a “narco-sub”, was transporting a large shipment of illegal drugs.
The narco-submarine was said to be in the waters between Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada. This method of transporting drugs is more efficient.
Is it that ‘bestie’ relationship that causes her and some of her cohort to be cavalier and rude in her treatment of us, the citizens of this land? What else has been promised to her, or to the US by her?
Is the request to Grenada a feint to have us cede Chaguaramas for a second time?
It is appropriate to note the warning of the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil: “We are willing to discuss everything that needs to be discussed with a neighbouring country, a country that is an economic power, a military power.”
(via UNC.)
He added that a significant conflict would lead to “excessive migration” and economic collapse that would “destabilise the entire region”.
Andrés Izarra, a former Chávez minister now living in exile, said he foresaw a Somalia-style debacle if the US raided Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
What will happen to our maritime trade then? What will happen to our economy? Will we be able to repel illegal immigration? Will we then be set on the road to a ratings downgrade and possibly an IMF intervention? Will the US provide help to bolster our country’s economy?
Our citizens appear fixated with the US helicopters. However, in 1993, two Night Stalker helicopters were shot down with rocket launchers and five members were killed during the Battle of Mogadishu, the two-day skirmish remembered in Ridley Scott’s film Black Hawk Down.
“Despite their incredible access to hi-tech gear, weapons, support, communications, a man in a T-shirt and jeans with an AK-47 can bring down your helicopter.”
Should Mrs Bissessar be expecting a regime change in Venezuela, she should read the history books. Not everything is as clean and straightforward as the Grenada invasion.
She must recall the CIA’s 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba, which resulted in the 1962 missile crisis. Military interventions do not always lead to democracy, but more often to dictators. Haiti is an example.
She needs to recognise that Venezuela is not a small country and that it has already withstood a military coup instigated by Trump’s first administration.
Colombia is now a target, and this does not augur well for the Trump administration. Colombia was a close US ally.
As one former US Ambassador, James B Story, said: “We have gotten more intelligence from Colombia on counternarcotics than we’ve given to the Colombians.
“That intel allows us to go and take a boat down with the Coast Guard. Then we obtain the drugs. We’re able to know then where the drugs came from.”
Can Mrs Bissessar ride the tiger? Or will we lose our favoured position?
Henry Kissinger famously said: “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” Kissinger is the icon that Donald Trump likened Rubio to.
What should we make of the military exercises? Are they the usual Tradewinds operation on steroids?
Robert Evan Ellis, a Latin America expert who advised Mike Pompeo—the secretary of state during Trump’s first term—said the Caribbean exercises were one strand of “a carefully calibrated military messaging” campaign to pile pressure on Maduro’s regime as part of a “controlled negotiation” designed to advance US interests.
While our country reserves its position on the Caribbean being a ‘zone of peace’, the Brazilian leader does not. The prospect of a US attack has spooked regional governments, with Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, warning against outside meddling in a “continent free of weapons of mass destruction”.
Copyright: Reuters/ Ueslei Marcelino.
“Foreign intervention can cause more damage than it seeks to prevent,” said Lula, whose military commanders recently sent 10,000 troops to Brazil’s northern border with Venezuela for exercises.
Russia did not install a rig in Maracaibo to jettison that investment. Russia is a known ally of Venezuela.
Should we not, like Thailand or Indonesia—which were confronted with a choice between China and Russia—have weighed the situation before committing too early and being held hostage?
If Mrs Bissessar is concerned about crime, she can turn the pages back to when the then-Prime Minister Patrick Manning created a plan to secure our porous borders. She could review whether her plan that replaced Manning’s has worked.
She could read the 2024 Report of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) on National Security which said: “Trinidad and Tobago suffers from a security crisis and a border control crisis owing to the lack of efficiency of the Customs and Excise Division and the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard; and a gun retrieval crisis, owing to the lack of efficiency of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.”
The report also noted that the traffickers in contraband were aided by corrupt law enforcement personnel.
Photo: UNC.
If that is too much reading or too much work, then we are doomed to ride the tiger. Will the tiger help us with our crime problem? Will we get the Dragon?
“Or what king would go to war against another king without first sitting down with his counsellors to discuss whether his army of 10,000 could defeat the 20,000 soldiers marching against him?” Luke 14:31.
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By: Narmeri
OPINION
Under North-American Control
‘Make Aryans Great Again’: Is There A MAGA Offshoot In POS?
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ – George Santayana
Because of Europeans/Whites conquest, genocide, enslavement, theft and colonisation of other people and their lands, many of their descendants especially American and European elites, billionaires, common people and institutions want to maintain hegmonic control and domination of the world via the legacy of white supremacy and racism. They use their media to spread propaganda and lies to mis-educate, brainwash or even fool their populations into supporting wars, so they can install puppet governments to control and steal the resources of other countries or expand their empire.
The United States(U.S) did the same lying-arse strategy with the ‘Gulf of Tonkin incident’ in Vietnam as a pretext to war, as it had done since: The Mexican-American war, The Spanish-American war, Persian war, Iraqi war, Afghanistan war and all their other imperialist-interventionist ‘petite guerres’ in Haiti, Cuba, Granada, Latin America, Asia, Lybia and other African countries, etc…. And now, the U.S. is trying it with Venezuela and the Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago (PMTT) volunteered to get Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) in on the action for regime change in Venezuela, supposedly without even being asked, according to her own words, and yet being disingenuous and duplicitous. She claimed she’s not seeking regime change and yet uses as pretext T&T’s ‘Drugs and Gun Related Murders’ to blame Venezuela.
T&T a ‘minnow’ in a big pond, rightfully had a long standing position of speaking truth to power and acting with high morals like an unbias negotiator, even to the racist, arrogant, hypocritical U.S. the ‘great white shark’ in the region, and it still maintained amicable relationships with all, while telling them the truth to their faces ‘We are no longer your slaves’ (at least it seemed so, before now). Even the U.S. while at times hinting of possible economic retaliation to bully T&T to go along with its usually immoral and especially racist positions, seemed to respect T&T for that and they have maintained cordial relations even in disagreements. For the most, if via ‘Critical Thinking’ T&T position aligned with U.S., T&T would rightly stand with the U.S. It reminded the U.S. of the sons and daughters of T&T like the late great Kwame Ture and Hazel Scott who for a time became naturalized/residential sons and daughters of the U.S. and tried to make a positive difference in those lands stolen from others and turned into a fiefdom for white supremacy, racism and elitism. Unlike the Black sellouts, who are sycophants fot white supremacy, racism, and elitism, because ‘N’gers gotta get paid’.
Individuals make-up a family and although members may have altercations, it’s the controlling of our egos and selfishness and showing love and respect to each other that strengthens our trust and unity. Trinbagonians love decent people no matter where they’re from. T&T loves the U.S despite its racist sordid history because they know there are decent Americans of all so-called races trying to make a positive difference just like many are doing in T&T, plus it’s a macrocosm of T&T with so many different cultures and especially T&T’s connection and love for the U.S First Peoples.
However, in terms of governmental representation, the U.S. is a bi-polar racist, but, not in the classic sense of extreme opposite bipolarism, but rather just noticeable. Thus, every four years many in the world and especially the Caribbean-LatinAmerican region cross their fingers, not knowing what racist state of mind the U.S. would be in. Will it be the ‘Overtly Racist Warmongering Elephant’ or the ‘Constrained Racist Donkey’, who perhaps knows it has a problem and is working on it. Thus, it may seems likable at times giving a sense of hope, but can often be as one with the Warmongering Elephant. With all the mass protests in the U.S and around the world, especially with decent white people trying to right the wrongs of the past for a Just, Equitable, Peaceful world, it seems odd that the PMTT, the UNC and the ‘Wine & Jam’ population of T&T, don’t know what state of mind the U.S. is in. See YouTube Zeteo channel’s ‘How MAGA Is Bringing Back America’s Darkest Chapter’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLvmAPaTPwQ. to know who the UNC is soliciting under the pretext of T&T’s ‘Drug Trade and high gun-violence’. Also see YouTube No More Wars channel’s ‘Trump Has Tucker’s BLOOD BOILING’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S3woKrBw7U. Some of the same people that created and nurtured the Kaiju/monster that is Trump & Company are now coming out with the truth as shown in these vids and others, but only after the bloody hypocrits made 10s or 100s of million of dollars sowing hate, distrust and perhaps caused or aided in the deaths of thousands.
During his first 2016 -2020 term, the then and current President Of The United States(POTUS) had tried to force regime change in Venezuela, but the then PMTT in keeping with T&T’s long standing position of non-violent resolutions, and other decent people in the U.S. and elsewhere rightly resisted. The then PMTT never jumped into other people’s quarrel to make the T&T public which he’s supposed to represent and protect a target for possible war retaliation and caused such high fear and uncertainties for them. He didn’t act like a 1950’s jamette from Sparrow’s ‘Jean and Dinah’ song, like the current PMTT is doing to solicit the blatantly Anti-Black POTUS, when according to her, he didn’t even propositioned her. He prefers them ‘young, white and blond’ by all indications.
However, certain people in T&T though themselves often blacker than the ace of spades, think they are whites and are trying to model themselves and their political party like the racist far-right-wing parties of the U.S. and Europe or like the once mainly High-caste based BJP in India. That’s why they want to publicly jump in on the side of the most blatantly racist POTUS within recent times, despite supposedly not being asked to enter or take sides in the dispute between U.S. and Venezuela. But, with the granting of the Dragon gas license to T&T under the PNM being cancelled by the U.S. just prior to the 2025 T&T’s General Election, then again being given to T&T after UNC won the election and the new PMTT started advocating for regime change in Venezuela using typical U.S. pretext for wars, can be rightly construed as suspicious back-dealings. This is reminiscent of the 1980 U.S election where the Republicans secretly made a deal with the Iranians not to hand over the American hostages until after the election to have an advantage over Mr. Carter and the Democrats. The hostages were release after Mr. Reagan and the Republicans won the election as per their deal. Although T&T seems tolerant and peaceful for the most part, especially when there are no elections, it still has a problem with the legacies of race and caste. There are people with a Hindu-fundamentalist mindset among the descendants of East Indians in the countries/places their ancestors voluntarily immigrated (unlike enslaved Africans) and when their population is high enough they tend to be more vocal in wanting to treat the indiginous/original or other people of those countries like the lower castes in Hinduism. Some are so emboldened they want to make those countries/places stratigic assets to supposedly make India the Hindu superpower of the world. See: The Diplomat Blog ‘Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: An Interview with Dr. Edward Anderson July 15, 2025’.
This was blatantly demonstrated by statements of a high ranking UNC party member’s support of the PMTT engagement in rhetoric and actions that can be rightly construed as pushing for regime change in Venezuela. The UNC official basically warned Venezuela that if it tried to retaliate against T&T for the PMTT and UNC encouraging the U.S. to use T&T’s territory to go to war with Venezuela and force regime change, T&T’s population is more than half East Indians, so nuclear armed India (Modi and the BJP) will presumably protect the East Indians in T&T (and Guyana by extension). No mention of the descendants of the original/Indigenous people of T&T, Africans, Europeans, Chinese and others, including decent critical thinking East Indians. They can pretend, lie or spin as much as they want, but the truth is there for all to see and read. Had a PNM official or a person of another so-called race other than an East Indian made such statements without concern about the rest of the population, the East Indian population would be furious and rightly so, and they would have gotten support from critical thinking non-East Indians.
Personally I would rather a true democratic world order based on incorruptability, truth, justice, equality and real science, instead of hypocritical world super powers as we have now. But as it stands now, why should the world be held hostage to the legacies of the West’s racist hegmonic imperial dominance, so if India, China, Russia or anyone else can peacefully change the present dynamics and be the Guide for a just, peaceful, benevolent super power who could take criticism and control its ego and keep imroving the lives of everyone on the planet and guide us to a path where there’s no bullying super powers, only a just, respectful, peaceful planet, then GOOD. This even includes the U.S if it does a 180 degrees on its sordid hypocritical pass, right its wrongs and come clean and respect the rights of others self-determination without interferance, just as it wants others to do for its own. This applies to the other super powers or emerging ones.
Among the main reasons why T&T, the U.S and elsewhere have drug problems are:
#1. Users creating demand – Excluding those who got addicted due to medical reasons, etc., most if not all recreational drug users made the choice to use drugs, even if peer-pressured, they were not physically forced. Every day, persons are confronted with the choice of taking drugs, some do and many don’t. So others shouldn’t be blamed for one’s poor choices, especially with all the warnings and information against the use of drugs. The same goes for the legal ones, no one is physically forcing anyone to take the first step in using them, except for marketers and advertising’s mental encouragement aka brainwashing. People make their own choices to use drugs within their own countries.
#2. The unscrupulous, corrupt people in positions of high authority in both private and government making big money from the drug trade within their respective countries. The majority, if not all of the drugs entering their countries are facilitated by them. See ‘The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade’ – Alfred W. McCoy. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003. Or see ‘Congressional Record – INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives – May 07, 1998)’ https://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm. Again people making choices within their own countries.
#3. The impoverish at the bottom who in their desperation are exploited by the corrupt at the top, becoming their corrupt minions, the faces that gave siege to a nation and shield the powerful, wealthy, corrupt culprits at the top, and from these, dangerous gangs are born. Again people making choices within their own countries. Thus, drug problems mainly stem from people making choices within their own countries, just as they do for other things. Just like the U.S with Prohibition and their earlier so-called war on drugs.
Unlike the U.S. modus operandi of not accepting the choices of people in their own countries and forcing its choice onto those countries, like it is trying to force regime change in Venezuela with its newly anointed sycophant T&T. Even if all or most of the drugs just like guns came from the U.S to T&T, it’s still the unscrupulous, corrupt untouchables in private and public position of high Authority in T&T, the U.S and elsewhere that accepts, package, and distribute drugs both locally and internationally, for users who made a choice to use them. I don’t see the PMTT asking to ‘kill them all’, bomb them in their luxurious homes in T&T, or is it because they’re like the late Dole Chadee and others.
As per the situation in the region and the unprovoked extrajudicial killings of citizens of another country by U.S military on the orders of the POTUS and supported by PMTT this is illegal under international laws. High probability if the current PMTT and her UNC party were still in opposition and PNM were still in power and had done what she did, she would have held the PMTT and the PNM accountable for their illegal support of murders. And, she should be rightly supported by all, including the most ardent PNM supporters. Most if not all the guns that are used in murders in T&T were manufactured and supplied by the U.S. If the U.S. didn’t have nukes and another nation was vastly more powerful militarily, should that country’s military be able to bomb and commit extrajudicial killings of U.S. citizens in or near U.S. waters or other areas on the same pretext as with Venezuela without emperical evidence or a fair trial. Even in joint policing ventures with civilian security forces the military by default should follow civilian protocols of legal reasonable suspicion, cause, search and arrest, and hand over the suspect and evidence to the civilian side for detainment and fair trial, not to extrajudicially kill persons whether they were guilty or not. The U.S is able to do this and more all over the world and is never held accountable, then acts suprise or even belligerent when people get radicalized or countries try to convert to America’s one and only true powerful god…Nuke. America is willing to share and spread the god of the bible, but not the god of the Silo.
Assume roles reversal between T&T and Venezuela with relations to the U.S: The U.S don’t like the current PMT&T and its UNC party and wanted regime change to get at T&T’s resources and accused T&T of trafficking drugs to Venezuela. Venezuela does indeed have a drug problem and high gun related murders with most guns coming from the U.S as it is now but via T&T, but it still had a working relationship with T&T. If the U.S. sent ships threatening T&T and wanted the current PMT&T and the UNC out of power and started bombing and killing T&T national to provoke a war with T&T, and Venezuela just jumped in supposedly without being asked and drumed up war rhetoric for the U.S. to use its territory for regiem change in T&T and they did. Do you think that even if T&T were to be defeated by the U.S, it wouldn’t strike out or retaliate at the enemy closest to it. Remember the U.S could lose a couple ships and wipe T&T off the map, but Venezuela won’t go unscathed as they would have gotten what they encouraged.
Look at the statistics for physique, health, cancers and other lifestyle diseases of T&T prior to the 1990’s and specifically the 1960s and 1970s in comparison to many in T&T today. Should the U.S be blamed for many in T&T choosing to accept and consume its obesity inducing, harmones and preservatives saturated, health adversed foods and fast-foods like Killtucky, Crappydees, Slobways, Big-gut King, Flabbyio’s pizza, etc., and including local ones, that cause more deaths and lifestyle deseases than the drug trade and gun related murders in T&T ( and even in the U.S), and puts a tremendous burden on its health system? I say the U.S should not be blamed because they could have chosen to accept and consume more organic health conscious U.S. Foods and Products, which would have avoided the burden and financial strain on T&T Health system and themselves. Thus, providing T&T with more resourses to use elswhere. People making choices in their own countries.
I am not saying one shouldn’t try to stop the drug supply from the outside legally, I’m saying the primary way to drastically reduce the drug trade is to focus on the corrupt acceptors/abettors in authority and the users in affected countries. Responsibility and Accountability not to accept or use drugs or legalize and regulate which may be up for debate.
Pollie-tricksters trying, to get T&T in a war / Ones they elected, but ‘Who they work for’?
Fun-loving T&T’s heart skip a beat / Stock up on goods, stay off the streets.
No peaceful resistance, like the rest of the world / Marching the streets, for its voice to be heard.
The SOE serves, the Pollie-tricksters well / With no marching or protest, war’s easy to sell.
Those Pollie-tricksters, who courted this thing / Feel their high positions, have them protected.
Lock your doors and hide, stay in your home / It’s futile to resist the U.S, T&T’s told.
But if the Pollie-tricksters, or U.S ever dare / Tell them carnival, may be cancelled next year.
Even If U.S threatened, to drop all their nuclear bombs / They’d be given the middle finger, as T&T wine to their last one. (And they are singing: Don’t stop De Carnival)
If T&T learned to reshuffle its priorities and hold Pollie-tricksters accountable, it may not come to these. A militarily weaker Nation’s government may fear a bullying militarily stronger Nation’s government, but what both fear most are united Critical Thinking people who would hold them both accountable.