Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne.
Foreign Affairs Minister Amery Browne said yesterday the Venezuelan Embassy in T&T has been fully informed of the situation regarding Venezuelans who were trying to get a flight back home and is anticipating that suitable arrangements would be implemented to deal with the situation and transport them.
An aircraft that was expected to transport 97 migrants back to Venezuela yesterday was halted by Government after the plane was found to have been sanctioned by the United States.
Among those who were to return were people with terminal illnesses and disabilities, the elderly and children.
Browne: No-one caught covid19 in Parliament
Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne. File photo/Jeff Mayers -
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne said not one of Parliament s 355 staff nor any of its 31 senators had caught covid19 in the Red House, all due to protocols, such as reduced a speaking time. On Tuesday in the Senate, he objected to Opposition Senator Wade Mark s motion to revert to pre-pandemic speaking times. Not a single sitting member after over a year of the pandemic has been diagnosed as infected with covid19. We have all contributed to that statistic.
Browne said in a pandemic all must make sacrifices, yet Mark was only alleging political dictatorship by chanting Slay the Leviathan!
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Overseas missions helping with online exemption process
Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne. File photo/Jeff Mayers -
THIS country s overseas missions will be doing what they can to help TT nationals trying to return home, use the new online application system for travel exemption requests being launched by the National Security Ministry on Monday.
This was disclosed on Saturday by Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne. In a statement about the new system on Saturday, the National Security Ministry indicated, As of January 21, 2021, 19,941 applications were made to enter TTand 11,682 of those had been granted.
Charles: Why did Rowley meet Venezuelan diplomat?
Wednesday 23 December 2020
In this photo posted on Monday to the Facebook page of the Prime Minister, Dr Rowley is seen meeting with Venezuelan Ambassador to TT Carlos Amador Perez Silva earlier in the day at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann s. -
NAPARIMA MP Rodney Charles on Tuesday accused the Prime Minister of a diplomatic faux pas in recently meeting the Venezuelan ambassador to TT – a role which he said should have been delegated.
In a statement, he accused Dr Rowley of being “unfamiliar with the finer points of diplomacy.”
Charles said diplomatic meetings, all things being equal, are usually held among equals, with clear levels of what is deemed appropriate.