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Akash Sama­roo

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has re­quest­ed in­creased mil­i­tary sup­port from the Unit­ed States to help Trinidad and To­ba­go com­bat drug car­tels op­er­at­ing in the Caribbean.

Speak­ing yes­ter­day at the Amer­i­c­as Counter Car­tel Con­fer­ence, a high-lev­el mil­i­tary and de­fence sum­mit in Flori­da, Sturge told US Sec­re­tary of War Pe­te Hegseth that while T&T has high­ly-trained per­son­nel and a strong com­mit­ment to push­ing back against nar­co-traf­fick­ers, it lacks the re­sources need­ed to do so ef­fec­tive­ly.