Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre for talks fo­cused on re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and con­tin­ued co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment is­sued af­ter the meet­ing, Per­sad-Bisses­sar out­lined her Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on mat­ters re­lat­ed to nar­co-traf­fick­ing, hu­man traf­fick­ing and transna­tion­al crime. She stat­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains com­mit­ted to work­ing with the Unit­ed States to ad­dress these is­sues in the in­ter­est of cit­i­zens and the wider re­gion.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar not­ed the long-stand­ing ties be­tween both coun­tries and said the re­la­tion­ship has been shaped through on­go­ing diplo­mat­ic en­gage­ment. She added that the part­ner­ship now plays a role in ef­forts to pro­tect the re­gion through co­or­di­nat­ed se­cu­ri­ty ini­tia­tives and in­for­ma­tion shar­ing.