00:00Strategic and regional security expert Garvin Hira is of the opinion that the
00:04region's security needs to be placed on the front burner by CARICOM leaders.
00:08What is it called security of our region? There needs to be dialogue and there are
00:15certain platforms and systems that are already in place for that dialogue.
00:20However, one would question or probe whether that system is working and
00:28working well. So I would encourage and more or less advise that regional security
00:33needs to be a front burner with regard to dialogue within the CARICOM. It has to be
00:38a concerned and concentrated effort by heads of security to push on regional
00:43security so it unifies our decision, unifies our vision and we have what is
00:48known as a synergized view towards what is taking place.
00:52Hira is however also of the opinion that CARICOM leaders need to allow experts in
00:57the field to take charge of the conversations and advise them.
01:00Not allow leaders as such to get involved in that but to trust the subject matter
01:07experts who are established and positioned in the system to have that dialogue and
01:13continued regional security conversations so that the leaders can be briefed so
01:17that there can be some sort of synergy in the thinking and updates and
01:22situational awareness. The former head of the National Operations Center also spoke on
01:26Prime Minister Kamala Pasabi Sessa's stance of support for the United States
01:30counter-trafficking operations in the region.
01:33Maybe it's the first that we were hearing somebody in our system stand up and
01:37speak like that with that boldness and that courage and to many it would seem as I
01:41saw the headline say reckless or whatever but we have to understand that she is,
01:44there's something in governance and in government and in leadership at that level, Marlon.
01:51We are not privy to some of the conversations the Honorable Prime Minister is having behind
01:56closed doors, not privy to intelligence, not privy to some of the directions that she has
02:01taken. However, her stance, her posture indicates no nonsense. Her posture clearly says that the
02:08she's in support of this, she wants the whole NARPO trade in the region to come to an end and if this is
02:14the way we have to do it, this is how we're going to do it.
02:16Dominic Ramroop, TV6 News.
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