On Thursday May 20th, 2010, Mrs. Jennifer Boucaud-Blake, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of National Security, Mr. Nigel Clement, Director of the Strategic Services Agencies of the Ministry of National Security, and UNDP’s Resident Representative a.i. Mr. Edo Stork signed the project document ”Effective Control and Monitoring of PreCursor Chemicals in Trinidad and Tobago”.

 This project will bring on board a project management methodology called Prince2, which will energize ongoing efforts aimed at strengthening collaboration with and bringing synergy to the activities all stakeholders in relation to precursor chemical monitoring. The project will develop a Bill and establish a Precursor Chemical Unit to operationalise the provisions of the Bill. Finally, capacity will be developed with stakeholders in the area of Complex Systems as they relate to precursor chemical monitoring and policy recommendations will be developed.

 The Ministry of National Security and the UNDP will work together with the United Nations Centre for Advanced Visual Analytics (UNCAVA) to develop visualizations of the issues around precursor chemical monitoring.

 For more information on the project please click here (please put link to project information).

  

Drafted Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 20 May 2010