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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has declined to question the United States on the controversial September 2 lethal maritime strikes in Caribbean waters now under scrutiny for allegedly killing two survivors in a second attack, stating that the operation had little to do with Trinidad and Tobago.

Persad-Bissessar, who has been openly supportive of US military actions in the region and its string of boat strikes on alleged drug carrying vessels since they began in September, said earlier today that she did not see how questions on the alleged double tap applied to her or the country.

The Prime Minister’s comments come days after the Washington Post reported that US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had allegedly given an order to kill everyone on board the very first vessel struck in the Caribbean, and that following that, “a missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. “The Post’s report claimed that the strike, which had an official death toll of 11, had at least two survivors who were killed in a second.