Cayman Island Hospital
Documentation of U.S. Citizens Born Abroad
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Tips for Travelers to the Caribbean
May 1997 Foreword Since colonial times, the Caribbean has been a favorite place for American visitors. In the past 50 years, tourism to the area has increased greatly, and today millions of U.S. citizens visit the islands every year. The majority of these visitors have a safe trip. To help you have a similar experience, the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs has prepared these tips for you. Consular Affairs provides services to Americans ... [Read More]
The Caribbean
All the Overseas Territories cooperate regularly with the U.S. DEA and the U.S. Coast Guard on counternarcotics initiatives and operations, and on other drug-related crimes, such as money laundering. Since March 18, 1982, the Turks and Caicos Islands have been a signatory to a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding with the United States and The Bahamas to combat drug trafficking. Known as OPBAT, this permanent operation has seized over 75,000 kilograms of cocaine and 375,000 kilograms of marijuana, according to UK official statistics. In addition to providing police personnel to OPBAT, the Turks and Caicos Islands has a police fixed-wing aircraft and sea vessels to support the operation as required. The British Virgin Islands also has a fixed-wing aircraft and all the other Overseas Territories have police marine vessels to support combined operations. The British Virgin Islands works closely with the U.S. DEA in the U.S. Virgin Islands and with the Coast Guard ... [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 JDF Coast Guard (JDFCG) engages in cooperative operational planning with the U.S. Coast Guard on an intermittent basis associated with joint military operations in or near Jamaica’s territorial waters. During 2002, Jamaica participated in three deployments of Operation Rip Tide, a continuing U.S./Jamaica/Cayman Islands (UK) effort to deny smugglers the use of maritime smuggling routes into Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. The bilateral maritime counternarcotics agreement was successfully exercised on several occasions during 2002, and the JDFCG for the first time requested and received U.S. operational support under the agreement. Following an incident in late 2001 in which the GOJ refused to permit pursuit and entry by a Dutch vessel with an embarked U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment, the U.S. in mid-2002 proposed to the GOJ a protocol to the bilateral agreement that would improve it by adding provisions for operations from third party platforms, enhancement of safety for ... [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]
The Caribbean
(1) Data for 1999 is through October. Marijuana seizure statistics for 1991-93 have been revised.Caribbean Overseas Territories of the United Kingdom and BermudaI. SummaryAnguilla, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) comprise the United Kingdom’s Caribbean Overseas Territories (COTs). These territories are not significant drug-producing locations but are drug-transshipment points. There is no evidence, however, that drugs are coming through the COTs to the U.S. in quantities sufficient to have a significant effect on the United States. Bermuda is a self-governing overseas territory of the UK. It is not a drug-producing location. With its mid-ocean location 600 miles ... [Read More]
2002
Treasury Secretary O'Neill joined British Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer and British Virgin Islands Governor Frank Savage in signing a tax information exchange agreement with regard to the British Virgin Islands. O’Neill stated that the agreement was targeted at stopping funds associated with terrorism, money laundering, and tax evasion that often move almost effortlessly across national boundaries. ... January 25, 2002: Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Bahamian Finance Minister William Allen signed an agreement committing the United States and the Bahamas to sharing tax information in an effort to cut off funding to terrorist organizations. The United States had recently concluded similar tax-information exchange agreements with the Cayman Islands and Antigua and Barbuda. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Emergency medical services are provided to resident foreigners in Prague at several local hospitals. Motol Hospital, which has a 24-hour emergency room, is used most often for serious illness or injury and is the only hospital with 24-hour pediatric emergency and in-patient facilities. It has a foreigner’s desk, staffed by people who speak English and who will assist you in communications with hospital staff. Many, if not most, of the doctors also speak some English. Routine health care is available at several local clinics, including the Canadian Medical Center, UNICARE, and Mediscan. English speaking clerical staff makes utilizing these clinics easy. In addition to their general practitioners, each clinic also has numerous specialists available. Most clinics have a physician on-call 24 hours/day who will make house calls. ... [Read More]
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