For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is as­sur­ing cit­i­zens that there was “noth­ing to fear” from the re­cent vis­it of the Unit­ed States Navy de­stroy­er USS Grave­ly to T&T.

Speak­ing dur­ing a tele­phone call fol­low­ing yes­ter­day’s post-Cab­i­net me­dia con­fer­ence at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, St Ann’s, Sobers dis­missed on­go­ing spec­u­la­tion that the ves­sel’s pres­ence sig­nalled any form of mil­i­tary in­volve­ment or se­cret agree­ment with the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion.

“There was noth­ing for the cit­i­zens to fear about the Grave­ly be­ing here. As a mat­ter of fact, it was on­ly ben­e­fi­cial to Trinidad and To­ba­go,” Sobers said.