Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has declared that the Caribbean is not a zone of peace shattering the prevailing narrative of regional harmony as she highlighted the murderous state of Trinidad and Tobago and the pressing issue of illegal migration.

The Prime Minister took to the global stage at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York a short while ago, where she expressed her gratitude on two occasions to United States President Donald Trump for the US military presence in the region to combat narco-trafficking.

Persad-Bissessar deviated sharply from her Caribbean counterparts - St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley - who used their UN addresses to emphasise the region’s peaceful identity and to call for de-escalation around Venezuela.