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PS/Mr Sainsbury 5 April 1990
FROM: DATE:
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Mr Beamish
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Mr Gorham
WIAD
MR SAINSBURY'S LUNCH FOR DT MINISTERS:
5 APRIL
1. The following is a summary of the main points made in the discussion
over lunch today.
2.
Mr Lavity Stoutt (BVI) stressed the vulnerability of the BVI to drug traffickers. The use of the BVI/TCI plane had helped to reduce the number of air drops. But the Government needed to continue to be one step ahead. Drugs money was a serious temptation even for those in high places. But fighting drugs would be expensive and need determination. The BVI Government would do all in its power but needed to work together with others, especially the USVI.
The US
3. Mr Quinton Edness (Bermuda) thought there was a need to improve the partnership between the UK, the US, the DTs and independent countries in the area to combat drugs. was prone to name calling over eg money laundering. The DTS looked to the UK to set the record straight. The Bermuda Government was fully committed to fighting drugs. Drugs cost the US economy $177 billion per year. They cost the province of Ontario $8.6 billion per year. He assessed the cost to Bermuda's economy as up to $100,000 per year. Bermuda and the DTs could not put anti-drugs measures in place as quickly as the UK or US. They lacked resources eg to draw up a drugs control strategy. They needed help to learn what to do; and help over training, healthcare, AIDS etc. Bermuda and the Caribbean DTs should do more together as a region [a point he made separately to Mr Sainsbury] but they needed UK help to organise themselves. Nonetheless, the will to tackle the drugs problem was there and he looked forward to defeating it in the 1990s.
4. Mr Wendal Swann (TCI) agreed strongly with Mr Edness on the need for cooperation and for the UK to give help and a lead. Indeed, the DTs were "desperately crying out for help to HMG". He hoped to leave London with a clear idea of the direction that help would take.
5.
Mr Vernon Jeffers advocated workshops to educate opinion leaders (and not only police officers) in the DTS . The DTS needed to learn what to look out for both in terms of crime and addiction symptoms.
Scotland Yard had the experience:
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