NEW YORK (CMC):

A United States-based Caribbean group has assailed as "imprudent and inappropriate", a proposed visit to Trinidad and Tobago in the heat of electioneering by famed US civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

The Caribbean-Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) said Jackson's planned visit is allegedly to "endorse an opposition political party in that country, the United National Congress-Alliance (UNC-A), or one of its candidates, or to attend a UNC-A-sponsored event, ahead of general elections in the republic on November 5."

The Brooklyn-based CGID said its president, Rickford Burke, a lawyer, has written to Rev. Jackson, a former US presidential candidate, expressing the group's opposition to such plan.