FORMER People's Partnership (PP) attorney general Garvin Nicholas has sounded a note of caution on an August 23 by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, expressing support for the US naval deployment in the southern Caribbean Sea outside of Venezuela's territorial waters.

In a Facebook post, Nicholas said, "I am absolutely unambiguously in support of eliminating crime and making Trinidad and Tobago the safest country in the world to live. This has always been my objective."

But he added, "The undisputed reality is that there is no military in history nor will there be any in the future that can bomb drug cartels or gangs out of existence."