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Former head of the National Operations Centre, Garvin Heerah is recommending that there be regional dialogue within CARICOM about the region's security.


He appeared on TV6's Morning Edition.


Dominic Ramroop has more.

Transcript
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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