BROWNE: PM'S COMMENT ON STRIKE TARNISHED TT

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The Opposition is sounding the alarm over what it calls Trinidad and Tobago's growing entanglement in U.S.–Venezuela tensions.   Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate, Dr. Amery Browne, says the Prime Minister's recent comments on a controversial U.S. military strike have only worsened international perceptions of this country.

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00:00Trinidad and Tobago has now become notorious for its role in rising U.S.-Venezuela tensions,

00:07so says leader of opposition business in the Senate, Dr. Amory Brown.

00:11Well, ladies and gentlemen, Trinidad and Tobago is now firmly established within the international news

00:20as a base for military operations against Venezuela.

00:25If you examine CNN, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Associated Press,

00:32we are now being routinely referenced in a significant number of articles.

00:41But what concerns him even more is the Prime Minister's rhetoric.

00:45He says her now viral statement to kill them all violently made

00:50when asked about the U.S. bombing of a suspicious vessel in the Caribbean Sea

00:54on September 2nd shows a level of indiscretion on becoming of a head of government.

01:01That strike on September 2nd is now the subject of extreme and intense attention

01:09within the United States of America and across the world.

01:15It is now the subject of a major legal controversy.

01:19It is that very strike, major legal controversy,

01:23what seems to be a political scandal involving participants in both parties in the U.S.

01:30and some degree of military controversy as well.

01:35Another reflection of the poor judgment of our Prime Minister.

01:40The international controversy he refers to has placed U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

01:45and a senior military commander under direct scrutiny.

01:49At issue is why American forces authorized a second strike on a vessel already disabled

01:56in what was believed to be a drug interdiction mission.

02:00A second strike that killed survivors of the first.

02:03The White House has confirmed the follow-up attack

02:06and U.S. media outlets have verified that those who survived the initial strike were among the dead.

02:12Legal experts and democratic lawmakers say this raises serious questions

02:18under international humanitarian law,

02:20which requires combatants to give aid to wounded or shipwrecked persons.

02:26Instead, they argue the survivors were targeted again,

02:29an action some say may constitute a violation of the laws of war

02:34and potentially a war crime.

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