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PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she had no fears over any economic impact from Caricom, although not spelling out details, amid a potential brewing rift between her and Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

Persad-Bissessar has been accused of side-lining Caricom as "an unreliable partner" and its zone of peace policy in order to side with the US whose fleet is now positioned against narco traffickers allegedly linked to Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro.

However on December 21 in a Facebook post, Browne said last year TT had earned US$1.1 billion ($7.7 billion) in Caricom, including benefiting from US$142 million ($968.6 million) paid in Caricom nations in customs revenue to source TT goods under Caricom's common external tariff (CET) protection.