Former foreign affairs minister Dr Amery Browne has condemned the government’s response to a recent US strike on an alleged drug boat, which is alleged to have killed two Trinidadians among four others on a vessel in international waters.

He said from the onset of US military mobilisation in the region, the PNM has advised the government to consider its position very carefully.

“But in a very cavalier and belligerent fashion, the Prime Minister and ministers have firmly associated themselves saying things like, ‘Kill them violently,’ and not demanding any evidence, locations, identification, assistance in finding remains or anything along those lines,” he told media outside the Red House moments before the start of the budget debate on October 17.