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The executive director of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), Lt. Col. Michael Jones, says the devastating impact of illegal guns in the Caribbean cannot be overstated.
“These instruments of violence fuel gang warfare, drive up homicide rates and undermine the peace and stability essential for our sustainable development,” he told a five-day firearms training workshop that ends on Friday.
This week’s training workshop is a direct outcome of the collaborative spirit fostered by CARICOM IMPACS, the European Union’s (EU) Europe-Latin America Programme of Assistance against Transnational Organised Crime (El PACCTO 2.0), and France’s Technical Cooperation Support Programe for the Fight against Organized Crime in the Caribbean Region (ALCORCA).
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