New Delhi, April 11 -- Trinidad's ongoing row with its Caribbean neighbors over U.S. policy toward international drug trafficking and Venezuela boiled over into a full-scale verbal war Friday, with the prime minister demanding the exit of CARICOM's secretary-general after her term ends in August.

Regional tensions among members of CARICOM, a 15-member regional trade bloc, spiked late last year when governments denounced U.S. military action in the South Caribbean and the build-up of an unusually large American force near Venezuela intended to capture then-President Nicolas Maduro.

Regional neighbors previously called for the Caribbean to remain a "zone of peace," but Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar dismissed ...