The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, acknowledged this Friday that there are American personnel on the island who are helping authorities install a radar for the airport amid speculation about a possible military attack by the United States on Venezuela.
“They are helping with the track, the road and a radar,” the prime minister explained in a press conference on Thursday, adding that this “will help improve surveillance” in the face of the existence of “drug traffickers” in its waters, according to the Trinidadian newspaper ‘Guardian’.
Her words come after the prime minister assured that the Trump Administration “has never requested the use” of its territory to “launch attacks against the Venezuelan people”, thus promising that Port of Spain “will not participate” in this type of operations.
The US Chief of Staff, Dan Caine, met on Tuesday with Kamla Persad-Bissessar to discuss the “strong bilateral relationship between both nations, the strengthening of regional stability”, as well as “regional unity” in the fight against “illicit trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.”
The small sovereign island country carried out military exercises with the US Navy from November 16 to 21, 2025. The destroyer ‘USS Gravely’ docked in the port of Port of Spain on October 26 for these maneuvers.
In response to the exercises and the robbery of the aforementioned US ship, Caracas suspended the energy agreement signed with Trinidad and Tobago, while the Venezuelan National Assembly declared Kamla Persad-Bissessar persona non grata.