US provides fingerprinting equipment to Caribbean countries

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC - Grenada Monday became the second Caribbean country to receive an automated fingerprinting identification system (AFIS) from the United States as part of the efforts to assist in crime solving in the region. “Together all these islands will be able to work to help each other solve crime,” said US Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Larry Palmer. “The AFIS will enhance border security for the individual islands,” he said, noting that it will make the searching of data base with fingerprints much easier and faster.