also pledged to help improve forensic work in the region and develop a Haiti Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit to help police tackle firearms and ammunition smuggling, human trafficking and transnational gang activity. The State Department, she also said, will support a recently established Crime Gun Intelligence Unit in Trinidad and Tobago to help train police officers, and bring criminals to justice by helping Caribbean islands solve gun-related cases. Violent crime is soaring in the Caribbean region, once the postcard of peace and tranquility, and the explosion of arms is undermining development efforts in the 15-member Caribbean Community regional bloc known as CARICOM, Rowley told Trudeau as they prepared to end the first day of a Canada-CARICOM Summit in Ottawa. “People are arming themselves to carry out their criminal business, largely the drug trade and of course the human trafficking trade,” the country’s prime minister, Keith Rowley, said Wednesday afternoon as he and other Caribbean leaders prepared to head into a closed-door discussion with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the crime wave sweeping their tiny countries. Then early Wednesday morning, officers discovered a dozen more rifles. Pedro police in Trinidad and Tobago discovered a huge cache of AK-47 rifles and other high-powered weapons in a small village last week, they thought that they had made a major breakthrough in their fight against illegal arms trafficking. 17, 2022, announced a crackdown on firearms and ammunition being smuggled to Haiti, which is seeing an increase in deadly gang violence and kidnappings. View of several Haiti-bound semiautomatic weapons seized in Miami by Homeland Security Investigations.
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