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PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Trinidad and Tobago fully supports US President Donald Trump's war against drug cartels and criminal gangs in the Western Hemisphere.

Persad-Bissessar said this threat demands that TT and all democracy-loving nations fight fire with fire within the boundaries of the law.

To this end, she pledged TT's support for a US, Panama-led initiative to create a gang suppression force GSF) to combat criminal gangs in Haiti. Persad-Bissessar also lamented the Caribbean is no longer a zone of peace because of the dangers posed by transnational criminal organisations, such as criminal gangs and drug cartels.