PM CONDEMNS KPB'S CRITICISM OF BIDEN ADMIN.

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The Prime Minister said the Opposition embarrassed this country with the harsh criticisms its leader levied against the administration of a former U.S. President.  This, as he sought to remind the population that his administration secured a licence from the U.S. government that cleared the way for the Dragon gas deal with Venezuela even though there are other U.S sanctions on Venezuela's government.  Juhel Browne reports.

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00:00Right now in Trinidad and Tobago there are those of you outside of this room of

00:05course who believe that the behavior of the opposition leader is required

00:08because America has a new president and we have to make sure we please that

00:13president otherwise dog eat we supper. Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley as he

00:18responded to opposition leader Kamala Prasad Bissett's recent harsh criticism

00:22of the administration led by former US President Joe Biden as she congratulated

00:27the administration of the new US President Donald Trump after he took his

00:32oath of office last week. I want to say to the opposition who embarrassed and

00:37disgraced us last week I want to quote for them from this PNM platform the

00:42words of a Caribbean champion, a Caribbean Democrat, former Prime Minister

00:48Barbados Errol Barrow and he said like Dr. Williams said we are friends of all

00:56and satellite of none.

01:03Speaking during the PNM's 69th anniversary celebrations at the Napa

01:07in Port of Spain on Saturday, Prime Minister Rowley recalled what he

01:11declared to have been the opposition UNC's position against the Sandals Hotel

01:16project in Tobago. It is exactly that which is happening why the opposition

01:23UNC has come out so obscenely and vulgarly and attach itself to the

01:29political campaign of an American political party to provoke the

01:34Venezuelan president and the government there to prevent them from cooperating

01:38with Trinidad and Tobago in the oil and gas business. The recent progress on the

01:43deal for the supply of natural gas from Venezuela's the Dragonfield to

01:47Trinidad and Tobago could as a result of negotiations between the

01:51administration led by Prime Minister Rowley, the US administration led by

01:56former President Biden and the administration in Venezuela led by

01:59President Nicolas Maduro. It doesn't matter which party put sanctions on

02:04Venezuela because both parties in Washington put sanctions on Venezuela.

02:08Both parties. Our assignment was to get to Washington to make our case to

02:15influence people and to get a carve out from the sanctions that they put on

02:20Venezuela which was smothering Trinidad and Tobago's operations with our

02:24neighbor and we succeeded in doing that. We've got a no-fuck license from

02:28Washington when Washington has sanctioned Venezuela. The Prime Minister then had

02:32this to say about the opposition UNC. And they're standing by to celebrate

02:37failure by the Dragonfield and the Dragonfield and the Dragonfield like the

02:41dragon tail. Let me tell you something they do not want this country to succeed

02:46if it means that they fail at the polls. But in this PNM, come opposition, come

02:53government, we are there for the people of Trinidad and Tobago in fair weather or foul.

02:59The government has said it looks forward to working with the new Trump

03:04administration on matters of mutual interest.

03:07Jule Brown, TV6 News.

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