With drugs smuggled via Caribbean ports to Canada continuing to be an issue of concern, Ottawa is working with the region to establish a mechanism for better information gathering, analysis and sharing, the country’s Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, Diane Ablonczy says.
This is being done under the Anti-Crime Capacity Building Programme (ACCBP) funded by Ottawa which spans areas such as drugs, human trafficking interdiction, combating violent organized crime, and police and judicial reforms. “Some of what we’re funding is for better information gathering, better information storage through providing the technology for the information to be computerized and of course better information sharing,” the minister told Stabroek News in an interview yesterday. “Trans-national criminal organizations don’t recognize borders and so we have to work as a unit,