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OPPOSITION LEADER Penelope Beckles has called for more details as she expressed unease on the arrival of the USS Gravely, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer, at the port of Port of Spain on October 26, amid geopolitical tensions between the US and Venezuela.

In a media release on October 23, the Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs said the US warship will be visiting TT from October 26-30. The ministry also said the 22nd US Marine Expeditionary Unit will be conducting joint training with the TT Defence Force during the same period.

Speaking to the media in front the Red House in Port of Spain on October 24, Beckles said the current situation reminded her of her time as a student in Grenada in 1983, when the US invaded the island in Operation Urgent Fury. That military operation, which followed the assassination of Grenada prime minister Maurice Bishop, was ordered by then-US president Ronald Reagan.