Lead Ed­i­tor Pol­i­tics

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says any feel­ings of pan­ic or un­ease in the pub­lic over the ar­rival of the Amer­i­can war ves­sel USS Grave­ly are the re­sult of po­lit­i­cal machi­na­tions by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

She said the vis­it forms part of on­go­ing se­cu­ri­ty co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States, and Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ques­tion­ing why the Op­po­si­tion is at­tempt­ing to sow fear and con­fu­sion to un­der­mine those ef­forts.