A meeting got underway in Barbados on Tuesday on security for the upcoming T20 World Cup to be hosted in the Caribbean and the US next month.
It comes in the backdrop of a warning earlier this month by CARICOM’s agency for crime and security to regional governments of a possible Islamic State (ISIS) threat to the upcoming men’s T20 World Cup which will be played in Guyana, other parts of the Caribbean and the United States.
The CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) in its communication said that the Pro-Islamic State (Daesh) media group “Nashir Pakistan” had called for attacks against the tournament via poster on its Telegram and RocketChat channels which included a Quranic passage warning “people indulging in amusement would ultimately face the day of reckoning”.