– Dr CarringtonSecretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr Edwin Carrington, during a recent joint press briefing with the Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, Luis Falla, said that the official meeting did not include any discussions on the issue of deportees in the region.He,China NBA Jerseys, however, added that another meeting with Falla may be possible before the upcoming Summit of the Americas, and: “I can assure you that the issue will be on the agenda.”? Dr Carrington was responding to a question of a joint collaboration to put in place mechanisms to deal with the issue of deportees being sent back to the region after being found guilty of various heinous crimes in developed countries.Just recently, prior to his trip to the Middle East, Head of State, President Bharrat Jagdeo, had expressed concerns on the issue.Caricom Secretary-General, Dr Edwin CarringtonHe did point out, however,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, that the problem was not with all deportees,Wholesale China Jerseys, given that most of them have successfully been able to reintegrate into society.? “But a lot of them get back into criminality.”He also pointed to the double-standards of developed countries as it relates to the drug fight across the world, calling it “counter productive.”“They lecture us on drugs and want us to fight drug trafficking more, but when you look at the list of people that get sent back, often it is a long list of drug traffickers.”According to a report by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), the issue of criminal deportees has been a source of tension between the United States and Guyana.Guyana’s refusal to accept criminal deportees had even led the United States to ban the issuance of visas to Guyana Government officials and their families in late 2001.That ban was lifted once Guyana agreed to accept 100 deportees in 2004.In 2003, the United States deported 379 Guyanese to Guyana; and of these individuals, 38 were refused entry at the border and 135 had been convicted for drug-related and other serious offences.A review of Guyanese press articles by the UNHCR suggested that criminal deportees are believed to have triggered a crime wave.President Jagdeo has always expressed concerns about the return of criminal deportees, “many of whom the police believe have introduced new levels of violence in the commission of crimes such as kidnapping, in which there has been an alarming increase in recent years,” the report stated.In response to questions about the crime wave following the February 23,Cheap Jerseys From China, 2002 jailbreak, then Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj had indicated that, although he did not have statistics on the involvement of criminal deportees in crimes, “There is evidence that supports the contention that they have been involved in some of these criminal activities.”Gajraj had also said that, “Some deportees have become criminal kingpins,cheap nfl jerseys china, corrupting Government officials and organizing native Guyanese into gangs that are smuggling drugs into the United States and firearms into Guyana….Before the deportees began arriving…Guyanese police officers were killed at a rate of two or fewer every five years, but 23 were killed” in 2003.