Ja: Coming in from the cold

It's all about narcotics trafficking; it might help to interdict terrorists who might think to use the Caribbean as a back-door to the U.S. Remember John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo?

JAMAICA AND the United States have signed a new 'shiprider' agreement that gives the Americans the authority to board certain vessels in Jamaican territorial waters.

In a reversal of Jamaica's earlier stance on maritime interdiction and the sovereignty of its territorial waters, U.S. Coast Guard ships and law enforcement officials will now be allowed to board certain foreign government ships to intercept narco-traffickers.