Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she makes no apolo­gies for sid­ing with the Unit­ed States, as she de­fend­ed her Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on joint ac­tion against transna­tion­al or­gan­ised crime.

Dur­ing a lengthy ad­dress in Par­lia­ment she in­sist­ed no in­ter­na­tion­al law was breached dur­ing op­er­a­tions ki­net­ic strikes in the Caribbean sea.

“And if you had some good lawyers on your side, we have some very good ones here in­clud­ing the Ho­n­ourable At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, they will tell you there was no in­ter­na­tion­al law that was breached when we were tak­ing out, peo­ple were be­ing tak­en out in their boats, traf­fick­ing, hu­man traf­fick­ing, drugs, chil­dren,” Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.