Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has cau­tioned cit­i­zens to be vig­i­lant against the spread of mis­in­for­ma­tion, fol­low­ing a pub­lic re­but­tal by US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio of a CNN re­port claim­ing that the Unit­ed King­dom was with­hold­ing in­tel­li­gence shar­ing over Amer­i­ca’s re­gion­al an­ti-drug op­er­a­tions.

In a state­ment shared on X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter) yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed the re­port as part of “bla­tant at­tempts to un­der­mine on­go­ing ef­forts to con­front nar­co-traf­fick­ers and or­gan­ised crime.”

“Once again, US Sec­re­tary of State @Se­cRu­bio has re­fut­ed a false re­port pub­lished in the in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia, a sto­ry that was ir­re­spon­si­bly re­peat­ed by some lo­cal out­lets and pre­sent­ed to our cit­i­zens as fact. There are bla­tant at­tempts to un­der­mine on­go­ing ef­forts to con­front nar­co-traf­fick­ers and or­gan­ised crime. My Gov­ern­ment re­mains stead­fast in its part­ner­ship with the Unit­ed States as we take de­ci­sive, co­or­di­nat­ed ac­tion to stem the flow of drugs, guns, and hu­man traf­fick­ing in­to T&T,” she said.