Akash Sama­roo

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she ini­tial­ly with­held full de­tails about the pres­ence of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary per­son­nel in To­ba­go be­cause it was a sen­si­tive na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mat­ter. How­ev­er, she added that fol­low­ing per­sis­tent ques­tion­ing from the me­dia, that se­cu­ri­ty ad­van­tage has now been com­pro­mised.

The works at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port were ap­par­ent­ly so sen­si­tive in na­ture that when Guardian Me­dia asked why the Chief Sec­re­tary was not in­formed ear­li­er about the in­stal­la­tion of a radar sys­tem, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar replied, “The Chief Sec­re­tary is not a mem­ber of the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil and there­fore was not in­formed.”