Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to in­tro­duce the E-Pass­port sys­tem, ar­gu­ing that it was not on­ly more con­ve­nient for dai­ly tasks and record-keep­ing but would al­so en­sure a high­er de­gree of se­cu­ri­ty is main­tained.

“A cou­ple of months ago, be­fore I came in, we were still writ­ing on pieces of pa­per for record-keep­ing. We have since mod­ernised the sys­tem and con­tin­ue to im­prove the sys­tem,” Alexan­der said yes­ter­day.

“So, it’s about bor­der se­cu­ri­ty, which is part of the crime plan of this Gov­ern­ment to have bor­der se­cu­ri­ty. We want to know who comes in here, when they come in here, why they com­ing here and when they leave or if they’ve left the coun­try at all in fact.”