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CARICOM-UNSCR 1540 Capacity-building Initiatives
The CARICOM-UNSCR 1540 Implementation Programme has undertaken several major initiatives over the past year to prevent proliferation in the CBRN domain and to simultaneously strengthen regional response and interdiction capacity in relation to conventional security challenges, such as illegal weapons and narcotics trafficking. These initiatives are as follows – Commodity Identification Training (CIT) The CARICOM-UNSCR 1540 Programme, in…
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Jamaica concerned about private sector representation at CARICOM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE Jamaican Government has expressing concerns about the inactivity of the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC), and the vacuum it has created in the representation of the private sector at the regional level. Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Arnaldo Brown raised the issue in his sectoral debate presentation…
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Gov’t says no to balance of payment action against T&T
KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE Ministry of Finance and Planning and the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) are against Jamaica using Article 43 of the Revised CARICOM Treaty to address current balance of payment issues with CARICOM. “(They) have indicated that they do not believe it is in the interest of Jamaica to utilise these articles at this time,” Minister of State…
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United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1540
The CARICOM-United Nations 1540 Implementation Programme is a Region-wide initiative which assists CARICOM Member States in meeting their obligations under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) and involves the implementation of strategic trade legislation – including domestic import and export laws – to prevent the transit, trans-shipment, import, export, re-export or brokering of dual-use materials that can be used…
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The Current Challenge
CARICOM Member States, like the majority of countries within the United Nations system, largely lack the necessary legal foundations upon which to build and enforce an effective regional system of export controls and border security as mandated by UNSCR 1540 and subsequent United Nations resolutions. Despite endorsement of non-proliferation objectives by CARICOM Member States, regional implementation of the UNSCR 1540…
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Voters electing new government
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – More than 18,000 voters in this Caribbean-island are going to the polls Wednesday to elect a new government with political observers pointing to the possibility of a coalition administration emerging after the ballots are counted. Supervisor of Elections, Kearney Gomez, says his office is in a state of readiness and expects everything to go…
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External Security Cooperation
Cooperation with the US – The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative(CBSI) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United States have enjoyed longstanding, co-operative and mutually beneficial relations – a recent manifestation of this being the launch of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI). Caribbean Governments have long realised that it was not feasible to address the issue of crime and crime-related…
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Crews Search for Survivors in Oklahoma
MOORE, Okla. — Emergency crews and volunteers continued to work through the early morning hours Tuesday in a frantic search for survivors of a huge tornado that ripped through parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs, killing at least 91 people, 20 of them children, and flattening whatever was in its path, including a hospital and at least two schools.…
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Two foreigners jailed for using Caribbean countries to smuggle humans into US
WASHINGTON, CMC – United States law enforcement officials say two foreign nationals had been jailed in Texas for smuggling human into the United States using the Caribbean. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Indian national Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar and Brazilian Fabiano Augusto Amorim were each sentenced to 36 months in jail for their roles in smuggling undocumented migrants to the…
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