The way is clear for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to release funds for some aspects of the US$22M Citizens’ Security Programme (CSP), and the go-ahead has been given for the refurbishing of several police stations and the purchasing of new vehicles.
According to the Government Information Agency (GINA), Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee said, “We have just approved the refurbishing and the remodelling of a number of police stations on the coast and that will come on stream in 2008. We will begin to see this in very concrete terms