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Despite calls from regional leaders for peace in the region, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday unapologetically and vehemently declared that this country, along with the United States, will fight “fire with fire” to push back against drugs and gang warfare in the Caribbean region.
On a day packed with addresses from Caricom leaders at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the central theme from them was for the US to pull back from its proximity to Venezuelan waters and to remember that the Caribbean is a zone of peace.
However, when it was Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar’s turn at the lectern, she said she had come with a “hard truth.”
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