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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa makes cocaine bust in Caribbean Sea

     The Corey Pearson- CIA Spymaster in the Caribbean spy series often touches on narco-terrorism throughout the Caribbean Island nations, Latin and South America. See " Caribbean Nations Battling Narco-Terrorism ". The United States Coast Guard appears in several episodes and is woven in the overall plot. Yesterday, the Coast Guard cutter Tampa seized 973 kilograms of cocaine from a Panamanian-flagged freighter in the Caribbean Sea. The drugs it confiscated had a  street value of more than US$32.4 million.      Ironically, I was in St. Maarten last month while the Tampa was docked in the beautiful Great Bay off the capital Philipsburg. I took photos of her, including some of the crew taking a boat ashore to the famous Boardwalk, a walkway which follows the bay.       The crew of the Tampa was on patrol in support of migrant and drug interdiction operations in the Windward Passage when they came across the suspect vessel. T he drugs were discovered in a hidden compartme

CARIBBEAN NATIONS COMBATING NARCO-TERRORISM

     Not long ago, the Programme Manager from the Caribbean Criminal Assets Recovery Programme and British High Commission, Eamon Kearney met with Barbados Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite. It was the start of a  workshop on Countering Terrorism and its Financing.       The workshop was held in Bridgetown,  Barbados; it made it clear that international criminal networks, narco-terrorists and the threat of terrorism is lurking among the Caribbean nations. The Barbados attorney general, Adriel Brathwaite, emphasized that the region must pass legislation and conduct training to counter these threats. Journey the Caribbean islands with CIA Spymaster Corey Pearson- first 3 complementary episodes sent to you immediately.        Brathwaite addressed the workshop on battling terrorism and its financing in the Caribbean, which was  hosted by the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism of the Organization of American States and the government of Barbados. He stated that most