One day af­ter say­ing there were no Unit­ed States Marines in the coun­try, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firmed that a new radar is be­ing in­stalled by the Unit­ed States in To­ba­go to mon­i­tor ac­tiv­i­ties in­side and out­side Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Speak­ing to re­porters af­ter dis­trib­ut­ing lap­tops at the Pe­nal Sec­ondary School yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she has con­firmed that US troops are still in the coun­try and have been as­sist­ing with sur­veil­lance up­grades in To­ba­go.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s con­fir­ma­tion came af­ter mem­bers of the pub­lic re­port­ed see­ing US Marines at a pop­u­lar To­ba­go ho­tel in re­cent days.