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PANAMA CITY—Jamaica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kamina Johnson Smith, continues to recommend her country’s Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs) as a key part of a crime-fighting strategy, especially after similar legislation failed to pass in the Trinidad and Tobago Senate.
Johnson Smith spoke with Guardian Media on Wednesday night on the peripheries of CAF’s International Economic Forum in Panama City, hours after senators rejected amendments to the ZOSO bill, despite the Government’s effort to pass the legislation before the State of Emergency ends on January 31.
“I didn’t know that,” Johnson Smith said, looking visibly surprised when informed of the bill’s failure. “The ZOSOs have been a critical part of the national security architecture and part of the ecosystem that we have used to deliver the multi-pronged approach that has led to the massive reductions that we are now experiencing in homicide.”
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