The alleged killing of two Trinidadians in the most recent US strike on a vessel said to be carrying narcotics has been strongly condemned by the regional executive of the Alliance of Caribbean People.

At a media conference at the Queen's Park Savannah, opposite the US embassy, in Port of Spain, on October 16, David Abdulah, a member of the executive, said, "We don’t know what they were doing, but, regardless, nobody has the right to engage in extrajudicial killings. Even in open warfare between two states, you can capture enemy soldiers but you cannot line them up on a wall and execute them.”

The Trinidadian men are said to be among six killed in a strike off the coast of Venezuela in international waters on October 14. US President Donald Trump said the vessel was affiliated with a designated terrorist organisation operating in the Caribbean.