Amid height­ened se­cu­ri­ty alert, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with Unit­ed States Em­bassy of­fi­cials on Sat­ur­day night.

The din­ner meet­ing, at­tend­ed by the US Charge D'Af­faires in Port-of-Spain Jenifer Nei­d­hart de Or­tiz and oth­er em­bassy of­fi­cials, as well as For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers, took place at the Prime Min­is­ter's home in Phillip­ine.

And while no de­tails were re­leased on their dis­cus­sions, the Prime Min­is­ter post­ed pho­tos of the Di­vali din­ner on her of­fi­cial Face­book page.

It fol­lowed a cryp­tic mes­sage is­sued by the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day, warn­ing US cit­i­zens to be on their guard.

The Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion, sup­port­ed by the Per­sad-Bisses­sar gov­ern­ment, has been wag­ing a vi­o­lent war against drug traf­fick­ers that has been fo­cused in re­cent weeks on the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela.