The Caribbean Neighborhood (Caricom) has urged the USA to take extra concrete measures to handle the circulation of weapons from U.S. territory to Caribbean international locations, as this straight impacts regional safety and the combat towards crime.

Through the forty fifth assembly of Caricom Heads of State and Authorities, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who attended the assembly as a visitor, acquired the request from Caricom leaders.

Roosevelt Skerrit, the Prime Minister of Dominica and President of Caricom highlighted the present commitments between the regional bloc and the U.S., together with addressing insecurity and violence in Haiti, local weather change financing, regional safety, and the combat towards crime.

Nevertheless, he emphasised the assumption that the USA can and may do extra to stem the circulation of arms to the area.

U.S.-made weapons are extensively utilized by felony teams and gangs in Caribbean international locations.

Within the Bahamas, 98 % of the unlawful weapons seized in 2020 and submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for tracing had been of U.S. origin.

Related tendencies have been noticed in different international locations, resembling Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica, the place the vast majority of seized firearms might be traced again to the USA.

The Caricom Heads of State and Authorities assembly occurred in Trinidad and Tobago as a part of the bloc’s Fiftieth-anniversary celebrations.

Caricom was established on July 4, 1973, with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas by Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Since then, the group has expanded to incorporate eleven extra member states and 5 affiliate members.