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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.”