Bar­ba­dos’ For­eign Min­is­ter, Ker­rie Sym­monds, has ex­pressed con­cerns at the re­cent Unit­ed States mil­i­tary strikes on ves­sels sus­pect­ed of drug traf­fick­ing, say­ing the ac­tions may have by­passed due process and risk set­ting a dan­ger­ous prece­dent.

Late last month, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump or­dered the US mil­i­tary to strike a boat in the Caribbean Sea, off Venezuela, killing 11, al­leged­ly car­ry­ing drugs and last week, he told re­porters from the Oval Of­fice that he had strong ev­i­dence that the lat­est boat in which three peo­ple were killed was al­so car­ry­ing drugs.

The  Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar has come out pub­licly in sup­port of the Unit­ed States send­ing naval and mil­i­tary troops to wa­ters near Venezuela as part of Wash­ing­ton’s crack­down on nacro- traf­fick­ing.