The Unit­ed States is as­sist­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go with the de­vel­op­ment of in­fra­struc­ture to com­ple­ment an ad­vanced pas­sen­ger screen­ing sys­tem that will al­low au­thor­i­ties to iden­ti­fy po­ten­tial threats even be­fore trav­ellers ar­rive in the coun­try.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar made the an­nounce­ment yes­ter­day fol­low­ing Eid-ul-Fitr cel­e­bra­tions at the Marakaz-Al-AS­JA Ja­maat, as she out­lined new and on­go­ing ini­tia­tives in the Gov­ern­ment’s crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy.

Ac­cord­ing to the Prime Min­is­ter, the sys­tem will be sup­port­ed through US col­lab­o­ra­tion and will work along­side new on­line en­try re­quire­ments cur­rent­ly be­ing im­ple­ment­ed at the na­tion’s air­ports.