By: Staff Writer
August 26, 2025
The Kamla Persad-Bissessar government will allow the United States to access Trinidadian waters to defend Guyana is Venezuela attacks it.
Bissessar, said in a statement last week, welcoming American air and naval forces to international waters in the southern Caribbean: ““I want to make it very clear that if the Maduro regime launches any attack against the Guyanese people or invades Guyanese territory and a request is made by the American Government for access to Trinidadian territory to defend the people of Guyana, my government will unflinchingly provide them that access,”
Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Sean Sobers on the other hand said two days earlier that Trinidad will be staying out of the current impasse between the United States and Venezuela, and he is urging the population to put aside any fear amid the ongoing tensions.
Sobers said the US made it clear that its intention is to fight drug running, drug smuggling, and the activities of people deemed terrorists. He said that aligns with the same mandate expressed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and the Government.
“Our Prime Minister or Government has made it quite clear that we will stamp out all types of illegal activity entering Trinidad and Tobago in the same forms and activities that they are talking about, which are drugs and gun smuggling, human trafficking.”
Bissessar has now made it clear that her administration fully supports the Trump administration and its deployment of warships and soldiers off Venezuela, saying the time has come for concerted international action against organized crime, as it has had debilitating effects on the country and regional neighbors.
Trinidad has received a massive influx of Venezuelan migrants since President Nicholas Maduro’s and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela won the 2018 elections where he was also returned to power for the second time.
As now tensions mount between the United States and Venezuela, with the former sending three battle ships and over 4,000 troops to the Southern Caribbean in what it says is done in an effort to combat drug trafficking and the latter mobilizing 4.5 million militia troops in an effort to combat any possible incursion by the US.
The Trump administration has continued the years long sanctions against Venezuelan officials and with US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, recently labelling Maduro as a “narcoterrorist,” CARICOM is unsure how it will all unfold.
One thing appear certain that Trinidad has sided with the US and Guyana on any possible aggression that the Maduro administration may undertake against Guyana.