{"id":28558,"date":"2026-02-25T20:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=28558"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:34:31","slug":"tt-pm-reaffirms-support-for-guyana-at-caricom-hgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/tt-pm-reaffirms-support-for-guyana-at-caricom-hgc\/","title":{"rendered":"TT PM reaffirms support for Guyana at CARICOM HGC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The 50th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government got underway on Tuesday with regional leaders focusing on regional unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four-day CARICOM summit, taking place from February 24 to 27, convenes leaders from across the Caribbean Community for high-level discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio are also on the schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the Opening Ceremony, Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s Kamla Persad-Bissessar called out her regional counterparts for their silence in the face of threats from Venezuela against Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>How can the CARICOM be a zone of peace when a narco dictator who imprisoned and killed thousands of civilians and opposition members&#8230;was released from prison because of politics? So how can it be when that regime was threatening violence to two CARICOM member states that there was no voice from CARICOM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persad-Bissessar emphasised that while every country has the sovereign right to determine its own national security and foreign policy, CARICOM must serve as a collective voice for all member states \u2014 not only those aligned with governing administrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I want to reaffirm that the CARICOM should be the voice for all not just for the governing parties, not just for those In the Caribbean who form part government parties<\/strong>,&#8221; she asserted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She meanwhile expressed support for cooperation with the United States on security matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the Prime Minister highlighted efforts by US President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to tackle narco-trafficking and related smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government got underway on Tuesday with regional leaders focusing on regional unity. The four-day CARICOM summit, taking place from February&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[488,715,370,716,412,405,717,380],"class_list":["post-28558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-488","tag-caricom","tag-guyana","tag-heads-of-government","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-trinidad-and-tobago","tag-venezuela"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28560,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558\/revisions\/28560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}