00:00During the opposition's media conference, Senator and former Attorney General Faris al-Rawi called on the government to explain why
00:07the homeland security minister was not in the Trinidad and Tobago delegation, led by Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa at
00:15the Shield of the Americas Summit, which ended with a meeting hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump in Doral,
00:22Florida, last Saturday.
00:24Why was Minister Alexander not meeting with the Shield of Americas? If we are taking the fight of criminality in
00:35Trinidad and Tobago seriously, how on God's earth, in blessed Trinidad and Tobago, could we be leaving out Roger Alexander?
00:44Defense Minister Wayne Sturge was part of the Trinidad and Tobago delegation and attended the Shield of the Americas Summit
00:51meetings in Florida ahead of the big event last Saturday.
00:56Minister Sturge was in Miami, dealing with signing on positions. Prime Minister attended a joint Southern Command initiative.
01:07Nothing new. The Southern Command has been to Trinidad and Tobago on umpteen occasions. I met with the head of
01:13Southern Command in my tenure and time.
01:15Operation Tradewinds, which is the coordination of the Caribbean basin, they were here flying aircrafts in April 2025, as we
01:27had a joint operation in Trinidad and Tobago in the month of the election.
01:31As Trinidad and Tobago has joined what the U.S. is calling the America's counter-cartel coalition, Opposition Senator and
01:38former Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Amri Brown called on the government to provide specific details.
01:44What is the difference between what we've now joined and what the U.S. Secretary of State indicated that we
01:58joined in August of 2025,
02:01which was a U.S.-led coalition comprising Caribbean and Latin American countries operating to stop the flow of drugs into
02:12the United States of America.
02:15On Tuesday, Prime Minister Kamala Poussaba says on the social media platform X that Trinidad and Tobago remains firmly committed
02:22to working with the America's counter-cartel coalition to advance a safer and more secure hemisphere.
02:29Jules Brown, TV6 News.
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