JAMAICA AND CANADA TO SHARE MONEY FROM SALE OF DRUG DEALERS' ASSETS

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Canada and Jamaica have agreed to share money made
from selling drug dealers' cars, homes and other assets as part of a new
legal assistance pact. Under the agreement, the two countries will also
help each other locate and identify suspects, providing records and search
warrants, the Jamaican government said Monday.

Raymond Wolfe, Jamaica's high commissioner to Canada, and Gavin Stewart,
his Canadian counterpart in Kingston, signed the agreements in Ottawa last
week during Prime Minister P.J. Patterson's visit to Canada.

Jamaica signed a similar legal assistance agreement with the United States
several years ago.

Patterson has since travelled on to Europe, where he met Monday with
representatives of the Caribbean Advisory Group in London and pledged to
work with the body on new educational programs.

The group was appointed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to advise his
government on Caribbean issues.