Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go are mourn­ing the death of a Unit­ed States ser­vice mem­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go her­itage who was among three Amer­i­can mil­i­tary per­son­nel killed in the line of du­ty in Jor­dan.

In a state­ment is­sued through the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs on Wednes­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­pressed the deep­est con­do­lences of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go to the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of the Unit­ed States, as well as to the fam­i­lies, loved ones and fel­low ser­vice mem­bers of the three fall­en sol­diers.

The Prime Min­is­ter paid spe­cial trib­ute to 28-year-old Sergeant An­gel Sarah Ram­per­sad, who, ac­cord­ing to in­for­ma­tion for­mal­ly pro­vid­ed by US au­thor­i­ties, was of Trinidad and To­ba­go her­itage.