Beginning Sunday, June 5, military and security forces from Caribbean nations, including Dominica, will join the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom for maritime and internal security and disaster response training in Grenada as part of Exercise Tradewinds 2016.
This year’s Exercise Tradewinds will be conducted in three phases: Phase I will include maritime and land operations, and will take place in Grenada through June 14; Phase II will include maritime and land operations, including U.S. Marines, and will take place in Jamaica from June 20-28; Phase III, a Key Leader Seminar, will be conducted July 20-22 in Miami for key stakeholders and decision makers from the region.
Exercise Tradewinds supports the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), a U.S. Department of State regional security partnership. Phases I and II are designed to conduct joint, interagency capacity building exercises for participating nations. Those exercises focus on increasing regional cooperation in complex, multinational security operations, humanitarian assistance, and disaster response operations.
“Tradewinds supports U.S. and regional objectives to improve regional security and enables all participants to collaborate and learn from each other,” said Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Commander of U.S. Southern Command. “Moreover, Tradewinds will have long-lasting benefits to all the participants. More than likely, some of the relationships and friendships forged through this exercise will result in future interactions that will already have a foundation to build upon.”
Military and security personnel from 13 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states — Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago — will join military personnel from the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom for Phase I of Exercise Tradewinds 2016.
Participating regional organizations include the Regional Security System (RSS), Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), and CARICOM.
In 2017, Tradewinds will be hosted by Barbados.
Well i suggest that they got training to shoot suspected packages found in the public places due to political elements …another sick country ,with sick people leading the blind and helpless forward. A country that is getting millions for the sales of passport have never thought of training bomb disposal officers.Police in Dominica get training only to shoot forgetting that there are more guns on the streets than at the police stations…
I just hope this advance training is not used on the people of Dominic in streets of Roseau. But good luck fellers.
Very good exercises as I remember it .
It seems to me the 5 I’s (five eyes) are exerting their influence in the region, having just deposed the President of Brazil and destabilized the Economy of Venezuela.
Don’t run in to the arms of your abusers, you fools.
police a trained for enternal security,not for external security.
but Dominica doesn’t even have an army.