LACK OF RESOURCES CITED IN FAILURE TO CUT DRUG FLOW

CARIBBEAN - Caribbean authorities say they are hampered by limited
resources as they try to stem the drug flow that accounts for an estimated
one-third of United States-bound cocaine shipments.

Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Haiti were named as major
transshipment centers in a U.S. State Department report last week. Eastern
islands--including St. Kitts and St. Lucia--were increasingly being used by
traffickers, the report said.

"We have tried hard to stop cocaine from entering or leaving," Jamaica
National Police spokesman Sgt. Jubert Llewellyn said Friday. "Frankly,
intelligence is where we have been hurt by a lack of resources."

While the flow of cocaine through Haiti has decreased, Jamaica has become
the region's leading transshipment point, the report said.

The report also named the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico as the entry point
into the United States for much of the Colombian cocaine moved around the
Caribbean, mostly in speed boats or in commercial shipping containers.