A foreign government’s complaint, 985 diplomatic passports, and a “cry baby” jibe — Trinidad and Tobago’s passport purge has reopened the wound of political transition.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago | By Calvin G. Brown | July 4, 2026  — Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has moved to strip former prime ministers Dr Keith Rowley and Stuart Young of their diplomatic passports, declaring that Trinidad and Tobago’s system for issuing the coveted red booklets has been abused on a staggering scale — and dismissing Young’s cries of victimisation as “cry baby, beh-beh behaviour.”