Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control to Hold Hearing on U.S. – Caribbean Security Cooperation Will examine U.S. counter narcotics efforts in the Caribbean

 WASHINGTON – Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and Co-Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), will hold a hearing Wednesday, February 1 at 2:30 p.m. on U.S.-Caribbean Security Cooperation.

            The hearing will examine drug-related violence in the Caribbean and U.S. security assistance through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative.  Last September, President Obama identified four Caribbean countries as major drug transit countries--the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. 

Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control Hearing on
“U.S.-Caribbean Security Cooperation”

2:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 1, 2012
562 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Anibal de Castro
Dominican Ambassador to the United States

Audrey Marks
Jamaican Ambassador to the United States

Cornelius Smith
Bahamian Ambassador to the United States

LIVE STREAM:  www.drugcaucus.senate.gov

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