For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al, Garvin Nicholas, says the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment should not read­i­ly aban­don its clos­est al­lies to ap­pease “those who would eas­i­ly dis­card us”, as he ques­tioned Port-of-Spain’s an­nounce­ment that it ful­ly sup­ports the de­ci­sion of the Unit­ed States to de­ploy “mil­i­tary as­sets” in­to the Caribbean re­gion to de­stroy what it de­scribed as “the ter­ror­ist drug car­tels”.

In a state­ment is­sued over the week­end, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so in­di­cat­ed that Port-of-Spain has “not en­gaged and has no in­ten­tion of en­gag­ing” the 15-mem­ber re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion group­ing CARI­COM “on this mat­ter”.

The T&T gov­ern­ment said each CARI­COM Mem­ber State, “can speak for them­selves” and that “Trinidad and To­ba­go has been help­less­ly drown­ing in blood and vi­o­lence for the last 20 years”.