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Monday, March 24, 2008
Trinidad and Tobago has boosted measured to control national security by bolstering its Department of Immigration Services. Thirty recruits were recently added to the Authorities rank and file, after completing an intensive five-week immigration induction-training course. Officials have said that this is the first batch of Immigration Officers recruited for the Division and that the new officers would be assigned to the airport and to the country's Machine Readable Passport Section of the Immigration Division. Chief Immigration Officer, pointed out that there are an additional one hundred and sixty-five additional permanent officers and seventeen contract positions waiting to be filled. The additional posts were created by the government last year. The oil rich territory was recently singled out in a US anti narcotic report as an increasingly important transshipment point for illegal drugs on the way to North America and Europe.
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