Pride Of Barbados
Policy and Program Developments
Overview for 2000For U.S. international antidrug programs, the year 2000 was one of important accomplishments and serious challenges. Long-term cooperation with our Western Hemisphere allies continued to bear fruit. We successfully attacked drug crop expansion, enhanced interdiction efforts, worked to arrest leaders of drug trafficking syndicates, and narrowed the opportunities for the drug trade to launder drug profits. At the same time, we provided our partners essential training assistance to strengthen their law enforcement and judicial systems, while helping them with programs to reduce drug consumption in their own countries. The year’s most noteworthy accomplishment was to keep the total Andean coca crop from expanding significantly. Six years of joint ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
For the spectator sports fan, Vancouver has three professional teams: The Vancouver Canucks play in the National Hockey League; the British Columbia Lions play in the Western Conference of the Canadian Football League; and the Vancouver Canadians are a class A baseball farm team. Major U.S. sporting events are telecast here as well. Touring and Outdoor ActivitiesLast Updated: 12/8/2003 10:25 AM Numerous points of scenic interest are within easy driving distance from Vancouver. Costs of transportation, meals, and lodging are comparable to those in the U.S. Vancouver Island, the largest island on the West Coast of North and South America, offers the provincial capital of Victoria, unusual gardens, beaches, and mountain scenery. One of the major scenic attractions of the province, How ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, APRIL 1993US DEPARTMENT OF STATEBUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS MATTERSDEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 10047RELEASED APRIL 1993The Report is for sale by the Government Printing Office, Superindendent of Documents. Stock No.: 044-000-02370-9THIS SEGMENT OF THE INCSR REPRESENTS INDIVIDUAL REPORTS FOR SOUTH AMERICA, MEXICO, CANADA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANSOUTH AMERICA Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay VenezuelaMEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA Belize Canada Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama THE CARIBBEAN Bahamas Cuba Dominican Republic Guyana Haiti Jamaica Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Eastern Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica 210 Grenada St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines French Caribbean UK Dependent Territories in the Caribbean ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORTMARCH 1995BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRSTHE CARIBBEAN 157Bahamas 159 Cuba 165 Dominican Republic 168 Guyana 173 Haiti 176 Jamaica 180 Netherlands Antilles and Aruba 185 Suriname 187 Trinidad and Tobago 189 Eastern Caribbean 192 Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Grenada St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the GrenadinesFrench Caribbean 199 UK Dependent Territories in the Caribbean 200 Anguilla, Montserrat, British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Turks and ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: ALBRIGHT REMARKS ON CARIBBEAN ECONOMIC POLICY
MR. CARRINGTON: Call to order the first annual meeting of the Ministers and Secretaries of State of the nations of the Caribbean responsible for foreign affairs, and the Secretary of State of the United States of America. As established by the 1997 Barbados Summit of the Heads of Government of the nations of the Caribbean and of the United States, I have great honor in inviting the Honorable Ralph Maraj, Foreign Minister of Trinidad and Tobago to address us: ... Even as we build a new hemisphere, we must understand the inherent differences among us -- geographically, historically, economically -- and use diversity to our best advantage. Solidarity is essential, as the president noted on his trip to the Caribbean last year. In this region, this means ensuring that smaller economies are fully and appropriately integrated into the Free Trade Area of the Americas. It means a sensitivity to immigrants looking for a better life even as we enforce our own legal requirements. It means working together cooperatively, as the Secretary of State noted in her remarks, to fight the dark and evil force of narcotics and narcotics traffickers through every means at our disposal, including multilateral evaluations of our efforts. And it means ensuring the basic rights of citizens, strengthening our respective democracies and democratic institutions and instituting a second generation of political and economic reforms. You have spoken very clearly and we h ... [Read More]
The Caribbean
The far-reaching restructuring of the N.A. police, started in 2000, continued to show limited results. During 2003, the police chief made improvement of the Criminal Investigative Service (CID) his top priority. His second priority continues to be improving the expertise of the financial investigation team. It is estimated that Curacao requires 900 police officers, but has a force of 420. Of the 26 additional officers now in training, 11 will go to the Windward Islands and Bonaire, and 15 to Curacao. From a previous class of seven, all went to Bonaire to stem the increasing problems there. As a result of a protocol signed in 2002 between the Justice Ministers of the Antilles and the Netherlands, the NA is now connected to the Dutch Police Information network to exchange information, particularly about international crime. The specialized Dutch police units (RSTs) that support law enforcement in the NA continued to be effective in 2003 and continued, as originall ... [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]
G) The Caribbean
The GOJ does not encourage or facilitate the illicit production or distribution of narcotic or psychotropic drugs or other controlled substances, or the laundering of proceeds from illegal drug transactions. The GOJ has a policy of investigating credible reports of public corruption and prosecutes individuals who by reliable evidence are linked to drug-related activity. The GOJ has not prosecuted any senior Jamaican government official for facilitating the illicit production or distribution of such substances, or the laundering of proceeds from illegal drug transactions. During the year, a number of JCF and JDF personnel were arrested on drug-related charges, and there are currently a number of ongoing investigations into alleged drug-related corruption involving police personnel. Police officers are often transferred if there is suspicion but no proof of involvement in drug-related activity. In October, the entire staff of a police station was transferred following allegations concern ... [Read More]
G) The Caribbean
In 2002, the GOJ seized 3,688 kilograms of cocaine, 26,630 kilograms of cannabis and 497 kilograms of hashish oil. Cocaine seizures increased in 2002 compared to the previous two years. The largest single cocaine seizure occurred in August when a joint JCF-JDF operation captured a go-fast boat containing over 1,500 kilograms of cocaine. Three Jamaicans arrested in connection with the seizure were scheduled for trial in December; two Colombian nationals earlier pled guilty and were sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The JDF worked with USG’s Joint Inter-agency Task Force/East throughout the year to successfully disrupt a number of planned go-fast deliveries. Intelligence-driven operations coordinated with DEA and the JCF vetted unit resulted in significant seizures of cocaine, including a 350-kilogram seizure in November. During 2002, the GOJ eradicated 79.28 hectares of cannabis, far short of the eradication goal of 1,200 hectares agreed to in the Letter of Agreement between Jamaica ... [Read More]
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