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“This en­deav­our will fur­ther ad­vance the re­gion’s com­pli­ance with the UN Con­ven­tion on Transna­tion­al Or­ga­nized Crime and ef­fect the pro­to­col on the smug­gling of mi­grants by land, sea, and air,” said the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Of­fi­cial. He ex­plained that counter-smug­gling is a di­verse is­sue that re­quires mul­ti-agency col­lab­o­ra­tion to ad­dress, which Trinidad and To­ba­go has im­ple­ment­ed to ad­vance its ef­forts.Īc­cord­ing to Deputy Di­rec­tor, fur­ther pol­i­cy de­vel­op­ment, strate­gic plan­ning, and the “im­ple­men­ta­tion im­per­a­tive” have emerged as the most ef­fec­tive means for na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty lead­er­ship and eval­u­at­ing mat­ters of mi­grant smug­gling. Mean­while, Deputy Di­rec­tor of the In­ter­na­tion­al Af­fairs Unit at the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Richard Lynch, echoed the im­por­tance of this meet­ing in achiev­ing the ob­jec­tives of the GCM. He not­ed that this would need to bal­ance re­spect for coun­tries’ le­gal sys­tems while en­sur­ing that re­spons­es are in ac­cor­dance with in­ter­na­tion­al law. “It is par­tic­u­lar­ly promis­ing for those who have been put in­to sit­u­a­tions of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty due to these net­works,” said Tar­nay, “as Caribbean States aim to en­sure that smug­gled mi­grants do not be­come li­able to crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion hav­ing been the ob­ject of smug­gling.” He not­ed that a gath­er­ing of this mag­ni­tude shows CARI­COM’s and na­tion­al gov­ern­ments’ com­mit­ment to re­al­is­ing the ob­jec­tives of the Glob­al Com­pact for Safe, Or­der­ly, and Reg­u­lar Mi­gra­tion (GCM), par­tic­u­lar­ly Ob­jec­tive 9 to strength­en the transna­tion­al re­sponse to smug­gling of mi­grants. How­ev­er, due to tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties IOM Pro­gram Sup­port Of­fi­cer, Bren­dan Tar­nay, pro­vid­ed fur­ther re­marks on her be­half. IOM Re­gion­al Di­rec­tor for North Amer­i­ca, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, and the Caribbean, Michelle Klein-Solomon, in her open­ing re­marks un­der­scored the im­por­tance of host­ing such a sig­nif­i­cant fo­rum of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials to ad­dress press­ing is­sues on mi­gra­tion in the re­gion. The co­or­di­na­tion and im­ple­men­ta­tion of both meet­ings are sig­nif­i­cant steps to­wards for­mu­lat­ing leg­isla­tive and prac­ti­cal path­ways to­wards the en­force­ment of counter-smug­gling of mi­grants’ mech­a­nisms in the CARI­COM re­gion.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives in­clud­ed of­fi­cials from im­mi­gra­tion and cus­toms de­part­ments, and at­tor­neys gen­er­al of­fices as both have vi­tal roles in draft­ing leg­is­la­tion of this type.Īd­di­tion­al­ly, the fo­rum cor­re­spond­ed with the meet­ing of the IM­PACS Stand­ing Com­mit­tee of Chief Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms Con­trollers on the fol­low­ing day. The two-day meet­ing be­tween the 26th and 27th April was host­ed in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and To­ba­go, with an im­pres­sive 25 Caribbean gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials in at­ten­dance. To ad­dress these chang­ing and con­cern­ing trends, the In­ter­na­tion­al Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Mi­gra­tion (IOM), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Im­ple­ment­ing Agency for Crime and Se­cu­ri­ty (CARI­COM IM­PACS), host­ed a one-of-a-kind meet­ing on draft­ing leg­is­la­tion to counter mi­grant smug­gling in the re­gion that can re­spond to re­gion­al and na­tion­al needs.

(IOM) - Re­cent da­ta from the Caribbean has sug­gest­ed that there have been in­creas­es in the num­ber of mi­grants be­ing smug­gled around the re­gion.