00:00Prime Minister Kamla Posada says on her social media pages on Friday that she met with officials from the U.S. Embassy in Port of Spain on Thursday
00:07and that they discussed their continued cooperation in the fight against crime.
00:12This follows the Prime Minister's announcement during the presentation of awards for outstanding performances in the 2025 May-June CXC examinations
00:21which was held at the Government Campus Plaza in Port of Spain on Thursday night.
00:26Today I met with some officials from the U.S. Embassy this evening before I came.
00:31That's not in my script but I can share it.
00:34Using the radar that we installed in Tobago, we were able today to drug bust $171 million worth of illegal drugs in Toronto and Tobago.
00:47I share that with you.
00:51So that's not the way.
00:52The drug running and the gun running and narcotics and so on.
00:57The key, the password is education.
01:01A reference to the radar system recently installed by the U.S. military at the A&R Robinson International Airport in Tobago.
01:10On Thursday, the police service had announced that the radar installed by the U.S.
01:14was essential in its seizure in the Karani Swamp of 1,560 kilograms of creepy marijuana, estimated at $171.2 million.
01:26Prime Minister Posad-Bissette said on our social media pages on Friday that this was a significant blow to criminal networks.
01:33The police commissioner announced on Friday that he led another exercise in Point 14 that resulted in an additional seizure of an estimated $56 million worth of illegal cannabis.
01:46At the CXC awards ceremony on Thursday night, Prime Minister Posad-Bissette had a message for the nation's school children and students in particular.
01:55For many of us, for my generation and in yours, the only way to lift yourselves up to prepare the world of work and to have a successful purpose for life is not through the narcotics and the drug running and the gun running out.
02:11The Prime Minister said education is the only passport out of poverty.
02:17Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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