"The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago retracted comments where she asserted that no U.S. Marines were currently in the twin-island nation - a development that comes as the U.S. government seeks allies amid ongoing strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and beyond. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told reporters Thursday that U.S. Marines were at the airport on the island of Tobago working on its radar, runway and road just days after she said they had left."
""They will help us to improve our surveillance and the intelligence of the radars for the narco-traffickers in our waters and outside our waters," she said, without providing details. Trinidad and Tobago's attorney general, and the ministers of defense and homeland security did not immediately return messages seeking comment on Friday. It was not clear if the U.S. government plans to use the radar that they're working on at the Tobago airport."
"Persad-Bissessar met Wednesday with Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. President Donald Trump's primary military adviser, who traveled to Trinidad and Tobago. A day after the visit, Persad-Bissessar told reporters that Trinidad had not been asked to be a base for any attack against Venezuela, and that Venezuela was not mentioned in recent conversations with the U.S."
Kamla Persad-Bissessar retracted earlier comments and acknowledged that U.S. Marines were present at the Tobago airport working on radar, runway and road projects. She said the Marines will help improve surveillance and the intelligence of radars aimed at narco-traffickers in waters around Trinidad and Tobago and beyond. The attorney general and the ministers of defense and homeland security did not immediately return requests for comment. Officials did not clarify whether the radar under work is a new installation or an upgrade, nor whether the U.S. plans to operate the system. Persad-Bissessar met with Gen. Dan Caine and stated Trinidad had not been asked to serve as a base for any attack on Venezuela.
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