Greetings
Trinidad and Tobago. Regular columnist Darryn Boodan is off today. He’s in
court over an alleged zaboca theft. I am Minister Stuart Young. You may know me
as a Minister in the Ministry of Legal Affairs. Or as a Minister in the
Office of the Prime Minister. Or simply as that guy who follows Dr. Rowley
around everywhere and sycophantically repeats everything he says. I would like
to talk about a very serious issue; the crisis in Venezuela. As you know, we in
T&T have a saying, “When your neighbor’s house on fire, wet your
own”. And we in the PNM have another saying, “When your neighbor is a brutal
despot; perform some mental gymnastics to rationalize doing business with him.”
