A Government backbencher believes the time has come for the Caribbean to have its own version of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the principal law enforcement agency and domestic intelligence and security service in the United States.
“The time has come in this part of the region for us to consider an overarching body, something the equivalent [of] an FBI,” Member of Parliament for St Michael West Central Ian Gooding-Edghill said in Parliament yesterday during debate on the Integrity in Public Life Bill, without reference to The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), which was set up by regional governments back in July 2006 to manage CARICOM’s action agenda on crime and security.
The Trinidad-based CARICOM IMPACS has…
