this appeared in my email today...its on an international list of black scholars...

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Trinidad government wants closer security links with Israel

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:46:11 +1100 From: Peter Marshall

"...High-speed interceptor boats, armed helicopters, closed-circuit TV
cameras on some streets along with a reorganized police service and
support
from the army and coast guard are all part of a massive security plan
the
government's hopes to put in place to fight crime...." or should that
be
interference in narc and arms traffic from Venezuela?

Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com

Trinidad government wants closer security links with Israel

by Stephen Cummings

Caribbean Net News Trinidad Correspondent Email:
cummingscom@yahoo.co.uk

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The Trinidad and Tobago government is seeking
closer links on security matters with the government of Israel.

High level security talks have been held between Trinidadian Prime
Minister
Patrick Manning and out-going Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.

Prime Minister Manning who was on a visit to Israel is looking for that
country's help in finding more ways of protecting the Trinidad and
Tobago
borders from drug and gun trafficking, which Prime Minister Manning
says is
one of the main causes of crime in Trinidad and Tobago.

The visit to Israel follows ongoing discussions and the purchase from
that
country of a 360 degree radar system to monitor Trinidad and Tobago's
coastal waters.

High-speed interceptor boats, armed helicopters, closed-circuit TV
cameras
on some streets along with a reorganized police service and support
from the
army and coast guard are all part of a massive security plan the
government's hopes to put in place to fight crime.

Prime Minister Manning is also due to attend a Commonwealth Heads of
Government conference in Malta, followed by another meeting in London
with
British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

Among the items for discussion are trade, economic, security and
HIV/AIDS
related matters relative to the region and the wider international
community.