Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed con­cerns sur­round­ing the US-sup­plied radar sys­tem at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, say­ing on­ly the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), drug traf­fick­ers and vi­o­lent gangs are “ob­sessed” with the is­sue.

Her com­ments come amid grow­ing de­bate over the radar’s con­tin­ued use and ques­tions about whether US mil­i­tary per­son­nel are still in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In a What­sApp re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar added, “Law-abid­ing cit­i­zens have no dif­fi­cul­ty with an Amer­i­can mil­i­tary pres­ence.”