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AN unusual warning from the US Embassy in Port of Spain to visiting US nationals on October 18 caused alarm in the wider society in TT, already concerned about a gathering of US warships in the southern Caribbean.

Despite repeated calls to government ministers for clarity, it fell to acting CoP Junior Benjamin to try to assuage public fears, as he frontally fielded media queries.

He said tactical units of the police are on heightened alert following a US Embassy notice, but denied that any public officials have been placed in "safe houses."