Gov’t signs MOU with CARICOM for increased border security
The government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) for the exchange of Advance Passenger Information (API).
The signing was done in a brief ceremony held on December 6, between Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Jones on behalf of CARICOM IMPACS in the presence of other government and BVI Airports Authority officials.
Government officials have described the signing as a regional effort for security and border protection.
The Premier recently disclosed that the API agreement will help to streamline the arrival of passengers into the territory and told reporters at a recent press conference that the new system will help with due diligence.
“This will help us tremendously because even before someone gets on a plane, you’ll receive the information here in the Virgin Islands, which will allow us to be able to scrutinise the persons on the list, do our due diligence, so that when they get here, it’s not a very long process for them to be processed because we would’ve had the information prior to their arrival,” the Premier said.
During the signing, Premier Wheatley said: “I am happy that the Virgin Islands is formally joining … the regional effort for security and border protection, through the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding for the exchange of Advanced Passenger [Information] between the Government of the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean Community Implementation Agency for Crime and Security.”
According to the Premier, the API System allows for some of the screening that must be done on arriving travellers to be completed before they arrive on the territory’s doorsteps, which he explained will allow for faster processing.
“We can have a greater level of comfort because we know that the persons we are admitting into the territory have been screened against international databases by the API System,” the Premier said.
He added: “We also feel good knowing that we are passing forward the same benefits to countries that receive travellers from the Virgin Islands when we transmit API to the system.”
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I dont trust those island people
You don’t trust yourself?
Lawdy, who cares about CARICOM?! Leave those people alone and deal with your immediate neighbors. i.e. USVI and Puerto Rico!
but you will trust every english, american and other european man that appear in front of you, even when knowing they have nothing good in their mind, heart or soul for you.. The slave is still alive unfortunately.
The most painful and aversive condition for the english, american and other european men are the confrontation with the truth. Their ego is even as small as a thumbs up/down feature on a news comment section. Pitiful.
Get sl**andeh out of government
Time for us to start Marching
He’s agreeing with a lot of wrongs ,
Since he the Leader US could come in here and pickup people
If you don’t trust island people, where do you live?
the English can come but watch the Americans.
Do you reckon only white folk use up down
like Icons? Weird comment!
Yeah, those like buttons are so racist!
I’ve also noticed that snow, paper, my
AC units and my cereal bowl are all white.
It’s a conspiracy and we need wake up as
a nation to fight this.
How many English American and European are boarders in our overcrowded prison. The plain truth is that these upde I slun breathing debris are proven liabilities in their own countries and everywhere else they slither. . With them around life and the economy, the very soul of the country experience collapse.Polluters of human decency.
What happened centuries ago and what is present and ongoing are poles apart. They are a special breed. Slavery was also a thinggy in these VI. Why they continue to enslave themselves and prove that there only worth is to be enslaved,who cares..stay out of their way,keep them at a distance,
BVI is one of the most xenophobic places I have had the misfortune of being associated with. Thank God I left when I did.
You people are obviously not too bright at anything. Perhaps you need to do some research into the history of BVI economic growth for the last 60 years. The current economic standing of the BVI is as a result of the foresight of non BVISlanders about 50 years ago. Today, most of the people who keep your financial services industry and tourism industry afloat are non BVIslanders. Recently you would have noticed that your narco state has serious security issues and most of the people who are involved can trace their great grand parents to some BVI enclave.
Given you unending ignorance and arrogance, what is your claim to fame other than being known to f#&k your own cousins you inbreds? Ever since the pool became wider and you were given the opportunity to widen your gene pool you have had an issue. You should embrace the opportunity at having normal looking children.
Do you think Caricom needs the BVI? It does not. Moreover, the fact that you use the U.S. dollar does not make you American. If it were so, Zimbabwe would be alot better today.