CARICOM Heads of Government have sounded their “grave concern” over the political instability in Venezuela and have offered to assist in mediation to prevent further crisis.
The Heads of Govern-ment of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Foreign Ministers of Grenada and Suriname met by video-conference on Thursday about the situation, which they say has the potential to lead to greater suffering of the Venezuelan people.
“Heads of Government are following closely the current unsatisfactory situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a neighbouring Caribbean country. They expressed grave concern about the plight of the people of Venezuela and the increasing volatility of the situation brought about by recent developments which could lead to further violence, confrontation, breakdown of law and order and greater suffering for the people of the country,” they said in a statement afterward.