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Akash Sama­roo

The Gov­ern­ment has ap­proved the use of lo­cal air­ports by Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft to con­duct what it de­scribes as “lo­gis­ti­cal ac­tiv­i­ties,” a de­ci­sion that has sparked strong crit­i­cism from the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), which claims it ce­ments the coun­try’s sta­tus as a “satel­lite state” of the US.

And while the Op­po­si­tion con­demns the move, ex­perts are di­vid­ed on whether the Gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment is a cause for con­cern.