CARICOM hosting forum on drug abuse

CARICOM National Drug Observatories representatives will benefit from a regional seminar to be held today and tomorrow in Georgetown.

The CARICOM Secretariat said in a statement yesterday that it has collaborated with the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) to   strengthen the capacity of representatives to gather, analyse and report on drug-related information and to enable the development of evidence-based drug policies and programmes.

The statement said that the seminar is part of the response under the Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) component of the Tenth European Development Fund (EDF) Crime and Security Programme between the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM.