00:00 With tensions heightening between Venezuela and Guyana by the second, many eyes are on
00:05 Trinidad and Tobago to see what our next move or our next statement will be.
00:09 Now the government has already stated that its position is CARICOM's official position.
00:15 But what do the people of TNT think?
00:17 Let's find out.
00:19 As Aghanis National, what are your sentiments on this situation?
00:25 Okay, so as both Aghanis and Trinidad National, I feel like the Trinidad and Tobago government
00:32 has more of a responsibility to have a more active role in arbitrating the situation.
00:40 I think as leaders in the region, Trinidad should be a little bit more proactive and
00:44 also as CARICOM leaders, we should be a little more proactive in how we treat with this.
00:50 I feel like generally when it comes to Trinidad and Tobago foreign policy, we have a really
00:54 reactive approach.
00:55 I know that whole situation will blow out of proportion and it will affect us as well,
01:02 but I'm more looking at it like that it will increase the number of Venezuelans coming
01:06 into the country as well and it may also affect our oil as well.
01:11 So more or less that is my perception of the whole thing.
01:14 God has to intervene some way, yeah, because if they don't come together, you know, there
01:22 could be a war and be in the middle, you know, but then what can happen?
01:27 I find Maduro should leave the people and them.
01:32 They now get oil and like he want to take the oil from them and it doesn't go on the
01:37 world.
01:38 I'm praying for that, it doesn't go on nothing.
01:39 I feel it will come to one conclusion.
01:42 Okay, so you're just being optimistic about the situation?
01:46 Yes.
01:47 I feel just be normal and be nice to each other, you understand?
01:52 Because we don't really need that war.
01:53 You see what's going on like down in Afghanistan, the Middle East and things, so we don't want
01:59 that kind of thing in Trinidad and Tobago.
02:02 So come to the border, you know, so that would be dangerous.
02:05 We should back our Caribbean brother and support them instead of Venezuela because if you look
02:13 at it, next thing you know Venezuela want to say Trinidad is part of Venezuela.
02:17 As our leaders always say in the street, Trinidad was part of Venezuela.
02:20 So I feel we should back the Guyanese and them 100%.
02:24 But you're aware as well that we have critical trade deals, oil deals with Venezuela, drug
02:29 and gas etc.
02:30 Yes, there's drug and gas and etc.
02:32 But if we take it, because we have them critical deals with Venezuela, we should turn back
02:37 on our brothers?
02:38 I don't think so.
02:39 I think we should back Guyana 100%.
02:41 Even as Guyana has urged the United Nations Security Council to do everything in its power
02:50 to hold Venezuela accountable and to ensure that peace is maintained in the region, the
02:56 United States today confirmed that it has conducted flight operations together with
03:01 the Guyana Defense Force as the two seek to strengthen their security partnerships.
03:07 Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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