"Respect Caribbean Zone of Peace" Webinar, Sunday, November 2, 2025
Event Date: 2nd November 2025
Location: Internet 2pm
FYI: From Caribbean Labour Solidarity
Respect Caribbean Zone of Peace
CLS Sunday Zoom meeting Sunday 2 November at 2pm London Time [please check the time difference if you are joining us from overseas as daylight saving will have recently finished in Britain].
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance.
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/hIxOAxnUQmOXXIIlV-VH9A
In view of the intrusion in our last meeting, we shall be taking certain extra security measures. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Guest Speakers:
- Chester Humphrey, immediate past President of the House of Senate of the Parliament of Grenada and former President General at the Grenada Technical & Allied Workers Union (GTAWU).
- Francisco Dominguez, Head of the Research Group on Latin America at Middlesex University. He is also the national secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
The US government has requested the Government of Grenada to provide military facilities at Maurice Bishop Airport. This is in the context of the US Navy’s incursion into the Southern Caribbean Sea, threats to the sovereignty of Venezuela and the unlawful sinking of fishing vessels.
Chester Humphrey said, “This has nothing to do with any interdiction of drugs. The playbook is the same, and that’s what they’re doing. The whole world knows. So, let’s be clear—what Grenada is being invited to do is to be a partner in the invasion of a sovereign territory. We will be making a grave mistake if we set ourselves up to participate in the invasion of Venezuela.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad and Tobago has reiterated that alleged drug traffickers “should all be killed violently”. Speaking to the Express about a recent US attack on a fishing boat off the coast of Venezuela that killed six people, including two citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, Persad-Bissessar said, “I stand by my previous comments. Nothing has occurred to cause any change in my opinion.” This has rightly caused outrage in Trinidad and Tobago as well as in the wider Caribbean Region
The US has long wielded disproportionate power over the small island states of the Caribbean and its peoples. We call on Caribbean governments to strengthen our sovereignty, defend our right to peace, the livelihoods of our peoples, and our right to be safe from the consequences of militarisation.