Cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go have re­spond­ed im­me­di­ate­ly to the an­nounce­ment that the Unit­ed State has can­celled li­cences to al­low this coun­try to ex­tract and de­vel­op gas from Venezue­lan wa­ters.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young an­nounced on Tues­day that he was in­formed by the US Gov­ern­ment that both li­cences giv­en by the US Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol for the Drag­on and Cocuina-Man­akin fields had been re­voked.

Giv­en that Trinidad and To­ba­go is due to hold a gen­er­al elec­tion on April 28, sev­er­al of the com­ments on Face­book were crit­i­cal of the gov­ern­ment for pur­su­ing the project, while oth­ers made a point that re­gard­less of which par­ty is in pow­er, the loss of these li­cences is bad for T&T's econ­o­my.

The fol­low­ing are Face­book com­ments on the top­ic:

Lutch­man: Well you had to be a fool to think Ru­bio af­ter all his smiles and fake as­sur­ances wouldn't have done this. How­ev­er, Ku­dos for be­ing an hon­est politi­cian and shar­ing this with the coun­try giv­en the sea­son we're in.

Le­an­dra: Imag­ine there are peo­ple on here laugh­ing at OUR set­backs.

Drag­on Deal was for, to se­cure OUR fu­ture. Oth­ers have put NOTH­ING in place, no ideas, no vi­sion, just fight down. They re­al­ly say EMP­TY VES­SELS MAKES THE MOST NOISE!

Kei­th: This is not a PNM or UNC is­sue. This is bad for Trinidad and To­ba­go's econ­o­my.

Stef­fan: Look out for "alyuh too un­pa­tri­ot­ic" from the PNM sup­port­ers who called us dunce when we saw it com­ing and warned them.

Kwame: Peo­ple re­joic­ing and laugh­ing for some­thing that will af­fect our chil­dren in d fu­ture. This is not even a gov­ern­ment thing or some­thing to look at as po­lit­i­cal ad­van­tage. SMH.

Soom­dath: Alyuh sit down and de­pend on gas and oil, all oth­er sec­tors left hang up, the damn beach­es, cities, roads in de­plorable con­di­tions, with non stop crimes, agri­cul­ture dead,noth­ing to lean back on and we In­de­pen­dent.

Ash­ton: Well we of­fi­cial­ly in a re­ces­sion,hope­ful­ly the gov­ern­ment will not con­tin­ue bor­row­ing to bal­ance the econ­o­my go­ing for­ward.This shows how we keep giv­ing away oil mon­ey in sub­sidy in­stead of di­ver­si­ty with the funds.

In­di­ra: Well look more ketch a**! This gov­ern­ment was de­pend­ing on this deal. Lemme look to tight­en meh belt even more eh. That belt will suf­fo­cate meh even more.

Gizzy: Very sad but ex­pect­ed with the change in ad­min­is­tra­tion. You were warned mul­ti­ple times by the op­po­si­tion this could hap­pen.

Leah: If UNC was in pow­er PNM ppl would have had the worst to say so.

Al­lan: The drag­on gas is not the on­ly life line to T&T. My stance is about my coun­try's suc­cess re­gard­less of who is in pow­er. I will not take plea­sure in cel­e­brat­ing this news. There are many oth­er on­go­ing projects and op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Ste­fan: Granny used to say don't put all your eggs in one bas­ket. The econ­o­mists preach­ing this since I small .. the late Lloyd Best was one. Now is time for pres­sure in we tun tun.

Mark: The re­sults of poor pol­i­cy de­ci­sions that has per­vad­ed over the past 10 years. Sad­ly, we con­tin­ue to be blind­ed by non­sense from politi­cians which will lead to our ul­ti­mate demise!