New Grenada envoy to
OAS presents credentials
Yolande Yvonne Smith, ambassador, permanent
representative of Grenada to the OAS and
Luis Almagro, OAS secretary general.
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By Bert Wilkinson
With the Venezuelan crisis worsening
on its doorsteps, a small grouping
of Caribbean Community leaders headed
to the United States this week offering
the services of the region as neutral
mediator but nations like Trinidad and
Guyana, which border Venezuela are
not holding their breath for an immediate
solution but are taking steps to
limit the negative fallout from the
South American nation’s deteriorating
situation.
For example, fears that various Venezuelan
criminal groups are becoming
even more desperate manifested
itself on Tuesday when heavily armed
members of the suspected Venezuelan
Sindicato Gang abducted a Trinidadian
fishing crew off the country’s southwestern
coast and demanded $200,000
in ransom payment. The attack on the
vessel with five fishermen came a week
after two cousins were also nabbed and
a ransom of $40,000 was demanded but
not paid. Relatives of this week’s attack
have until Friday to cough up the
money or the men will be dismembered
police said. The crew has been taken to
Venezuela.
Anticipating similar attacks as the
crisis deepens, Trinidad’s Minister of
Security, Brian Stuart Young summoned
the heads of security agencies
in Trinidad at mid week and updated
them about plans to strengthen security
along the coast and other areas
that are being breached by arriving
Venezuelans. Officials put the number
of Venezuelans living in Trinidad at
40,000 and rising as dozens attempt to
land in the twin-island republic with
Tobago each week. Stuart Young says
officials have identified 214 easy access
points between the two countries and
are moving to shore up security.
Immediately, authorities will spend
$100,000 to fix and relaunch 14 interceptor
vessels back in service for coast-
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By Nelson A. King
The Organization of
American States (OAS)
says the new Permanent
Representative of Grenada,
Yolande Yvonne
Smith, on Thursday presented
her credentials to
OAS Secretary General
Luis Almagro.
During the ceremony,
at OAS’s headquarters in
Washington, D.C., Smith
underscored that “the
OAS has been an integral
part of Grenada and has
been supportive of our
institutional processes
benefiting from several
electoral observation
missions and development
projects.”
She further noted,
according to the OAS,
that the hemispheric
body was the first international
organization
that Grenada became
part of, recalling “the
long commitment” of
her country to the OAS’s
work and mission.
Almagro noted Amb.
Smith’s “broad service
in the public sector and
knowledge of multilateral
diplomacy.”
“Having Amb. Smith
among us underscores
Grenada’s commitment
to gender parity in its
representation,” the OAS
chief said. “With her
arrival, four of Grenada’s
eight representatives
have been women.”
The OAS said Grenada
was the first Eastern
Caribbean country
to join the body shortly
after independence in
1974.
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