T&T was the sole Cari­com mem­ber to back the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary pres­ence in the re­gion at an emer­gency meet­ing of the Com­mu­ni­ty of Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean States (CELAC).

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers said yes­ter­day that CELAC re­quest­ed a meet­ing on Mon­day and sought to draft a com­mu­nique on be­half of all mem­bers, con­demn­ing the US mil­i­tary pres­ence in the Caribbean.

“Es­sen­tial­ly, what the com­mu­nique was say­ing is that the pres­ence of the US with­in the re­gion, the mil­i­tary pres­ence, could cause in­sta­bil­i­ty. And it could be a threat against, es­sen­tial­ly, re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty,” Sobers said.