Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs has broken its silence on the US military presence and lethal boat-strikes in the Caribbean, signaling Government's support for the action which is believed to have killed at least two Trinidadian fishermen.

In a release on Sunday, the Ministry said it wished to categorically express its support for the US’ military intervention in the region. By Sunday evening, the known number of deaths as a result of seven US strikes had reached 32.

The Ministry said the US operations were aimed at combatting narco and human trafficking and transnational crime which it says would make the region a ‘true zone of peace’- a term which Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar claimed was a false ideal when speaking at the UN General Assembly last month.