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The Constitution provides for freedom of association, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. Registration or other governmental permission to form private associations is not required. c. Freedom of Religion The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. The Government limited the number of foreign missionaries allowed to enter the country to 30 per denomination. Missionaries must meet standard requirements for an entry visa, must represent a registered religious group, and may not remain in the country for more than 3 years. The Government was known to monitor closely only one religiously affiliated group, a radical Muslim organization called the Jamaat al Muslimeen, some members of which attempted a coup in 1990. The Government's surveillance focused on the ... [Read More]

Trinidad and Tobago

The Constitution provides for freedom of association, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. Registration or other governmental permission to form private associations was not required.c. Freedom of Religion The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. The Government limited the number of foreign missionaries allowed to enter the country to 30 per denomination. Missionaries had to meet standard requirements for an entry visa, must represent a registered religious group, and could not remain in the country for more than 3 years. The Government was known to monitor closely only one religiously affiliated group, a radical Muslim organization called the Jamaat al Muslimeen, some members of which attempted a coup in 1990. The Government's surveillance focused on ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

In the oil-boom years, neither the government nor the people showed much interest in tourism. After the economic decline of the 1980s, however, Trinidad and Tobago has witnessed a positive change in attitudes toward tourism, and government has targeted the tourism industry for greater development. Currently largely confined to Tobago, tourism in Trinidad and Tobago is low-key and only accounts for 1% of GDP. Fewer than 200,000 tourists visit the islands each year, many of these during Carnival. Lack of sufficient hotel rooms and limited air transportation links are challenges in marketing T&T as a tourist destination. The marine pleasure yacht subsector has been a bright spot in the country's tourism picture in recent years. Since 1990 annual sailing yacht arrivals have increased from several hundred to well over 3,000. The government is focusing efforts on the development of eco-tourism destinations, taking advantage of acclaimed diving sites off the coast of Tobago and the impres ... [Read More]

USIA - Portrait of the USA, Ch. 1

In recent years the focus of the civil rights debate hasshifted. With antidiscrimination laws in effect and blacks movingsteadily into the middle class, the question has become whetheror not the effects of past discrimination require the governmentto take certain remedial steps. Called "affirmative action,"these steps may include hiring a certain number of blacks (ormembers of other minorities) in the workplace, admitting acertain number of minority students to a school, or drawing theboundaries of a congressional district so as to make the electionof a minority representative more likely. The public debate overthe need, effectiveness, and fairness of such programs becamemore intense in the 1990s. ... [Read More]

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REMARKS BY THE AMBASSADOR OF THEUNITED STATES OF AMERICAMS. MARSHA E.BARNES FOR THE  OPENING OF THE"Organized Crime Task Force Development" SeminarHOTEL KRASNAPOLSKY   Good Morning: Yesterday, we had a s ... [Read More]

The Caribbean

Law Enforcement Efforts. The TTDF Coast Guard, OCNU, CDCTF, and specialized policy/army task forces continued to carry out drug interdiction and eradication operations throughout the year, sometimes in cooperation with DEA and U.S. Customs. Numerous GOTT eradication operations resulted in the eradication of 2.1 million cannabis plants and seedlings. In 2003, the GOTT seized 149 kilograms of cocaine, 31 kilograms of heroin, and 560 kilograms of cannabis. The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), with DEA assistance, was able to interdict several shipments of cocaine being transported via commercial flights, either in transit from Guyana or originating in Trinidad and Tobago. In mid-summer, Canadian and GOTT law enforcement interdicted two cocaine shipments, reportedly facilitated by airport workers, destined for Canada. One shipment of 42 kilograms was secreted in a container that arrived at the Toronto airport from Port of Spain; another shipme ... [Read More]

The Caribbean

The BahamasI. Summary Because of its geographic location, The Bahamas continues to be utilized as a major transit country for cocaine and marijuana bound for the U.S. from South America and the Caribbean. The Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (GCOB) cooperates closely with the United States Government (USG) to stop the flow of illegal drugs through its territory, to target Bahamian drug trafficking organizations, and to reduce the domestic demand for drugs within the Bahamian population. An important bilateral milestone was achieved in June 2004 with the signing of a Comprehensive Maritime Agreement to provide law enforcement officers a ... [Read More]

One from Many: Immigration Patterns

It is not uncommon to walk down the streets of a U.S. city today and hear Spanish spoken. In1950 fewer than four million U.S. residents were from Spanish-speaking countries. Today thatnumber is about 27 million. About 50 percent of Hispanics in the United States have origins inMexico. The other 50 percent come from a variety of countries, including El Salvador, theDominican Republic and Colombia. Thirty-six percent of the Hispanics in the United States livein California. Several other states have large Hispanic populations, including Texas, New York,Illinois and Florida, where hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing the Castro regime havesettled. There are so many Cuban Americans in Miami that the Miami Herald, the city's largest newspaper, publishes separate editions in English and Spanish. ... [Read More]

G) The Caribbean

The islands of the Netherlands Antilles (NA) (Curaçao and Bonaire off Venezuela and Saba, Saint Eustatius, and Saint Maarten east of the U.S. Virgin Islands) continue to serve as northbound transshipment points for cocaine and increasing amounts of heroin coming from South America; chiefly Colombia, Venezuela, and Suriname. These shipments typically are transported to U.S. territory in the Caribbean by "go-fast" boats and to Europe by "mules" (drug couriers) using commercial flights. Evidence in 2001 did not support a finding that drugs now entering the United States from the Netherlands Antilles are in an amount sufficient to have a significant effect on the United States, but the entire eastern and southern Caribbean is an area of U.S. concern. The DEA and local law enforcement saw an increase this year in go-fast boat traffic, much of which moved to Saint Maarten en route to Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands. Consistent with the increased go-fast traffic, arrests of "mules" at ... [Read More]