Trinidad has a respected police drug unit and, since 1997, a multi-agency outfit linking this with the tax authorities, customs and immigration service.
"What we know is that intelligence is becoming central to anti-doping, and what the passport is, is one piece of intelligence that feeds into that; and linked to that as well are our relationships with UK border authorities, customs and excise and the police.
We urge the Thai authorities (Customs, Immigration, Quarantine and Security - CIQS) in the airports and other points of international entry and exit to be more vigilant to prevent large quantities of especially CITES I-listed species from being traded in Thailand.
It is ironic that silly conservatives accuse leftists of being uninterested in the authority of custom, experience and tradition – all ciphers of past practices – when the doyen of the left was obsessed with the past.
"Jim and I were out to destroy -- ridicule, if you will -- all sources of arbitrary authority and custom.
Individuals cannot have such aims, much less such "rights," until the dominant authority of custom or hierarchical privilege has been swept away.
These causes are: belief in unworthy authority; long custom; uncritical popular opinion; concealment of academic ignorance in a display of rhetorical wisdom.
Throughout the Essay, Locke bemoans the irrationality of the majority and their inability, because of the authority of custom, to change or forfeit long-held beliefs.
Creative artists, scientists, and inventors always have to battle the authority of custom or ignore the establishment in their particular domain (Pruyser 1987).
It sounds obvious but I had never really seen officials in uniform – immigration authorities, police, customs officers – with black skin.
