Drug Commanders meet to combat illegal drugs, firearms

The number of individuals interdicted for illegal substances has increased by as much as 50 per cent across Barbados and the region.

Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite, made this point, while calling on drug commanders from across the region and the Organisation of American States to put their collective heads together to see how the region can overcome the challenges presently being faced in that area.

He was at the time addressing the official opening ceremony of the 2016 Pre-IDEC (International Drug Enforcement Conference) 22nd Annual Caribbean Regional Conference at the Crane Resort this morning.

“One of the things that came out of my deliberations with my national security colleagues during 2015 was the significant challenges we were all having with drugs and guns because they seem to go together, and … we saw an increased use of the region for illegal substances,” Mr. Brathwaite pointed out.

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