Saint Lucia Examining Ways of Preventing and Prosecuting Cyber Crime
St. Lucia’s Attorney General Dr. Nicholas Frederick says Saint Lucia is seriously examining the feasibility of a series of recommendations coming from an Organization of American States (OAS) Working Group of international experts, on how countries in the Americas can improve cooperation to strengthen their fight against cybercrime.
Dr. Frederick says financial and other constraints may present a challenge to the implementation of the recommendations as they stand, but the government is committed to working with the OAS partner countries in preventing and prosecuting cyber crime.
“Saint Lucia is cooperating fully with the OAS and its member states. We participate in the OAS ministerial meetings and the technical meetings on crime, law, order security and so forth, to the extent that our limited finances permit.” Dr. Frederick explained. “In fact it’s interesting that just two weeks ago the Cabinet of Ministers gave the Attorney General’s chambers approval for Saint Lucia to join the OAS’s what is called the Hemispheric Information Exchange Network for Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition. And the purpose of this network really is to facilitate the exchange of information (relevant information) with other member states on matters of a criminal nature.”
During the last several years, the OAS Working Group’s recommendations on cybercrime have resulted in the implementation of concrete measures involving cybercrime-fighting training, the exchange of cybercrime-related information between national agencies and improved law enforcement cooperation between governments and other international bodies.