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Kamla: State resources won’t be wasted
Colombian President to T&T: Find victims of US strike...
No State resources will be wasted searching the sea for bodies of Venezuelans killed by the United States military in a drug interdiction exercise last week, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. The Prime Minister stressed Trinidad and Tobago’s duty ends with recovering any carcasses that wash ashore.She was responding to a call by Colombian President Gustavo Petro on the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to search for the remains of the 11 men killed in a lethal strike by the US military on a vessel allegedly carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean. Police have yet to identify the two bodies which washed ashore over the weekend.She said: “No, we will not waste resources to look for those bodies. Our Coast Guard resources will be utilised for the protection of our borders, not to look for dead drug traffickers. However, if any carcass washes up on our shores we will recover it,” she said.
She said this vessel was transporting drugs by members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang.“That was not a civilian vessel. The drugs on that boat bring death to persons here, destroy families and careers and fracture our society. Those drugs bring more death and despair than conventional weapons.
Colombian President to T&T: Find victims of US strike...
No State resources will be wasted searching the sea for bodies of Venezuelans killed by the United States military in a drug interdiction exercise last week, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. The Prime Minister stressed Trinidad and Tobago’s duty ends with recovering any carcasses that wash ashore.She was responding to a call by Colombian President Gustavo Petro on the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to search for the remains of the 11 men killed in a lethal strike by the US military on a vessel allegedly carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean. Police have yet to identify the two bodies which washed ashore over the weekend.She said: “No, we will not waste resources to look for those bodies. Our Coast Guard resources will be utilised for the protection of our borders, not to look for dead drug traffickers. However, if any carcass washes up on our shores we will recover it,” she said.
She said this vessel was transporting drugs by members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang.“That was not a civilian vessel. The drugs on that boat bring death to persons here, destroy families and careers and fracture our society. Those drugs bring more death and despair than conventional weapons.
