Police commissioners and military chiefs from 12 Caricom nations opened a three-day meeting in Georgetown yesterday geared at finding solutions to the grave security challenges facing the region.

The Eighth Extraordinary Joint Meeting of the Standing Committees of the Commissioners of Police and Military Chiefs, which opened at the Grand Coastal Inn, East Coast Demerara, is expected to offer ideas and recommendations to help inform a “strategy and action plan” to be formulated at next month’s Caricom Special Summit on Crime and Security in Trinidad and Tobago. The summit in Port of Spain will be hosted by Prime Minister Patrick Manning who has lead responsibility within Caricom for such issues. The special summit was one of the decisions taken at the recently concluded 19th Inter-Sessional Meeting of Caricom leaders held in the Bahamas……