BARBADOS Prime Minister Mia Mottley and St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves each in their own way lamented a build-up of military tensions between the US and Venezuela in this region and instead called for peace, in their respective addresses at the UN General Assembly in New York on September 26.

She said, "In the Caribbean Sea, we are witnessing a shocking violation of a hemispheric understanding that the Caribbean be treated as a zone of peace.

"There has been a build up in military assets in the Caribbean by both sides, the United States and Venezuela."