The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) will participate in the 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network for the Caribbean (ARIN-CARIB), which takes place in St. Michael, Barbados from 30-31 July 2024.

Under the theme “The Road to Asset Recovery: Identifying our Challenges, Overcoming our Barriers," the meeting will include a feature address delivered by the Honourable Wilfred A. Abrahams, Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs, Barbados as well as presentations from the National Centre for State Courts (NCSC), the St. Kitts and Nevis White Collar Crimes Unit, and CARICOM IMPACS among others.

CARICOM IMPACS will also sponsor the participation of all the non-Regional Security System (RSS) states including Belize, Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Trinidad and Tobago as well as Her Ladyship, the Honourable Justice Birnie Stephenson from St. Vincent and the Grenadines who will speak on the topic “Perspective of the Judiciary on Restraint, Confiscation and Asset Recovery.”

ARIN-CARIB is a network of law enforcement and judicial practitioners in the field of asset tracing, freezing, seizure and confiscation. Each member state is represented by a law enforcement officer and a judicial expert (prosecutor, investigating judge, etc. depending on the legal system). Its aim is to increase the effectiveness of members’ efforts, on a multi-agency basis, in depriving criminals of their illicit profits. CARICOM IMPACS is an observer member of the ARIN-CARIB Steering Committee.