www.sunderlandecho.comTrinidad and Tobago today promised Sunderland: "You can trust us with Kenwyne Jones."
The Black Cats' £6million striker is still recovering from suffering a broken arm in his club's end of season loss at home to Arsenal only 12 days ago.
But T&T are desperate for him to play in their showpiece friendly with England on June 1.
Despite Jones's importance to his country, T&T spokesman Shaun Fuentes said it would be madness to risk the 23-year-old star making his injury worse.
Fuentes said: "Kenwyne's been here in Trinidad for a few days catching up with his friends and family.
"He's enjoying chilling out after a tough season but I think he wants to play against England and we would like him to play some part.
"The first day of our training camp is tomorrow and Kenwyne won't be involved in that.
"We will properly assess his injury and make a careful decision in due course.
"But Sunderland can be confident we won't take any risk with Kenwyne. He's our biggest star right now – an important player for us.
"We have World Cup qualifiers against Bermuda after the England game and it is important for us to have Kenwyne fit."
Sunderland winger Carlos Edwards is also in the Soca Warriors' squad to play England and should join Jones against England.
Fuentes added: "Some arrangement will be made for Kenwyne to play against England wearing a light cast if that's necessary.
"But I think he has indicated it may be possible that, depending on how well the injury heals, he could probably go without the cast.
"It will be great to have Carlos back too. Our coach Franc Maturana has not had much of a chance to see these guys for himself so this is going to be a great chance for the players and the coach.
"We know Carlos and Kenwyne are not only important for the national team but are definitely important to Sunderland as well.
"Our federation wants a strong working relationship with Sunderland and we don't want to make things harder in that relationship."
T&T met England in the last World Cup finals – the first the Soca Warriors had ever qualified for – but next Sunday's friendly is seen as a historic date.
"It is the biggest game ever to be staged in our country," added Fuentes. "The interest is huge. We sold out our 24,000 tickets in two days and if we had an extra 15,000 or 20,000 seats we could probably sell them, too."