The United States is concerned that drug flows through the Caribbean are on the rise, according to a top US anti-narcotics official who said Washington remains “very concerned” that high level traffickers are not being arrested and prosecuted.
“For many years now, the flow through the Caribbean has been fairly low but we have begun to see that flow begin to tick upwards again so that is an obvious concern of ours,” Richard Glenn, the Director of the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) said during an interview with several Caribbean journalists including from Stabroek News in Washington earlier this month.
The US has over the years been assisting Caribbean nations including Guyana to combat the drug trade and other transnational crimes that threaten regional security through initiatives under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI). Under the CBSI, the US, CARICOM member nations, and the