Trinidad and Tobago went all in with the US – it will prove a costly misjudgment | Kenneth Mohammed

Aligning itself with Washington and dismissing regional diplomacy has left the dual island nation isolated amid the Venezuela crisis

There is a saying in Trinidad and Tobago: Cockroach should stay out of fowl business." It captures a hard truth. Small states that stray into great-power conflicts rarely emerge unscathed. They are not players; they are expendables.

It's a statement that frames the reality of where Trinidad and Tobago sits uneasily today.