United States Announces $8 Million in New Support for Caribbean Forensic Capabilities
The United States announced more than $8 million in new support for Caribbean forensic laboratories at the second Caribbean Regional Forensic Leadership Summit in Saint Lucia from May 20–22.
The funding will provide advanced synthetic drug detection equipment, technical training, and enhanced collaboration with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Representatives from the Antigua and Barbuda Forensic Services and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions joined regional counterparts from 13 Caribbean countries at the Summit, which was hosted by the Saint Lucia Forensic Science Laboratory and the U.S. Department of State under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).
The initiative is designed to improve fentanyl detection, reduce laboratory backlogs, and strengthen court-admissible forensic evidence used in prosecuting transnational organized crime.
The Summit brought together forensic, prosecution, and security leaders, along with the Regional Security System and CARICOM IMPACS, aimed at bolstering regional cooperation against transnational crime and synthetic drug threats.
U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Sarah Nelson said the partnership reflects a shared commitment to disrupting criminal networks and addressing evolving drug threats across the region.
The Summit also marked the launch of the Caribbean Forensic Scientific Working Group, the region’s first coordinated platform linking Caribbean forensic professionals with U.S. experts to improve standards, reporting, and regional cooperation.
In addition, Saint Lucia and Guyana became the first countries in the region to implement the DEA’s GUARDS program for the analysis and reporting of drug-related substances.
Since 2010, Antigua and Barbuda and other Caribbean nations have partnered with the United States through CBSI to strengthen regional security, combat drug trafficking, and dismantle transnational criminal organizations.
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Shame at what we call leadership and prime ministers, these wyt colonials have to be always playing a paternalistic role to these little black children purporting as leaders with a tax income budget if $2 & $4 billion dollars and can’t take care of their little island that is not even as big as some farm ranches in the USA, these leaders can do nothing else but steal and loot everything as they have learned from the white colonials back then, it is uncivilize to see that we do not possess the intelligence to make permutations that build a sovereign nation, and we claim we independent, our country is like a child toy that is broken constantly and is fix by these paternalistic metropolis and given back to us and we break it and go crying cap in hands always begging for help, then want to claim we independent.
It is thievery that stop us from developing our nation, these countries only do us some favors because it benefits it’s citizens living among us.
Go ahead lady and infantilize our leaders because they will get these monies and the citizens of the country will never hear about it, and if we do , it will only be about a high paid comrade committee office put together to think about the idea and exhaust funds by giving themselves high monthly salaries and nothing tangible will be realize unless you he de.whiye people come and implement that project.
In the meantime, the restrictions and visa bond impositions for Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica remain fully in effect even after we were told that a review would take place by June 1st. The U.S. has so far not rolled back these measures as they continue to cite concerns over identity verification and Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI) programs. Never before witnessed this squeeze on our citizens.
Goliath asked David, “Who am I that you come after me with a stone? Am I a dog?”.
It seems like we are the dogs to America.
They just throw a tasteless bone and believe that they have gained our loyalty.
Please please please tell me.
What is US$8 million to the entire caribbean region?
This is pocket change to many many citizens in the islands.
So what does America think of our loyalty?
Can or should that buy our loyalty?
America considers us their backyard.
Well, they are right.
You do not throw waste in your front yard.
You toss it into the backyard.
Sadly America is tossing nothing neither in our backays nor front yard.
They do not care about us except we make friends with other super powers.
They do not see us as a threat to them
Hence they do not care how we survive.
As soon as we make friends with Russia, China, Iran or Pakistan they have a problem with that.
Look at how important t we are to America.
By spetember 11th 2011 Afghanistan has already received over US$200 million worth of aid from America.
The entire caribvean had received just short of US$20 in the million.
Please explain to my why a distant land had gotten so much more than America’s so called back yard.
They do not care about us yet we are bowing to them.
Rubbish!!!!!!
This is to buy the silence of our Governments as they go on their killing spree by blowing up boats that they suspect might be carrying drugs without concrete proof, so they want to use you all in their murderous plot. I somehow suspect Trump knows where some of that money will end up. Me too
@Eldread. Well said. It seems that we always need outsiders to help us implement something that we can do for ourselves. It’s as if our leaders never knew that we had drugs and illegal guns in the Caribbean. They just seemed to flow smoothly through our borders without any obstruction.
I can bet in 4 years time nothing will change as it relates to crime in these islands.
Call me crazy, the concerning sentence regards the Caribbean seemingly sharing swathes of information on a joint platform = data harvesting & how US goliaths such as Palentir, use that data under the administrations direction:
‘the launch of the Caribbean Forensic Scientific Working Group, the region’s first coordinated platform linking Caribbean forensic professionals with U.S. experts ‘
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