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THE Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) has slammed Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for expressing Trinidad and Tobago's support for a US naval deployment in the southern Caribbean Sea, outside of Venezuela's territorial waters.

Persad-Bissessar did so in a statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister on August 23.

In statement on August 24, MSJ political leader David Abdulah said Persad-Bissessar's statement was shameful with this country's 63rd anniversary of independence less than a week away