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Is­sues of transna­tion­al or­gan­ised crime and re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty, with dou­bles as re­fresh­ments, were the main fea­tures of a closed-door, al­most two-hour meet­ing be­tween Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen­er­al Dan Caine and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on Tues­day.

The Prime Min­is­ter de­clared the meet­ing as “ex­cel­lent”, while the US Em­bassy, the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter and even a state­ment from the top US mil­i­tary of­fi­cial’s web­site tout­ed the fo­cus on desta­bil­is­ing il­lic­it nar­cotics in the re­gion.

But as sev­er­al as­pects of the vis­it re­main un­clear, mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion and a for­mer mil­i­tary com­man­der are call­ing for trans­paren­cy in light of on­go­ing US mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in the South­ern Caribbean against nar­co-traf­fick­ers main­ly from Venezuela.