Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09KINGSTON798
2009-10-08 18:51:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Kingston
Cable title:
JAMAICA: COUNTRY CLEARANCES AND BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
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UNCLAS KINGSTON 000798
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AMGT ASEC APER CMGT PBTS EFIN BEXP PREL KCOM JM CJ
UK, XL
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: COUNTRY CLEARANCES AND BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
IN THE CARIBBEAN (CAYMAN ISLANDS)
REF: LONDON 1375 (110806Z JUN 09); KINGSTON 530 (081806Z JUL 09)
UNCLAS KINGSTON 000798
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AMGT ASEC APER CMGT PBTS EFIN BEXP PREL KCOM JM CJ
UK, XL
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: COUNTRY CLEARANCES AND BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
IN THE CARIBBEAN (CAYMAN ISLANDS)
REF: LONDON 1375 (110806Z JUN 09); KINGSTON 530 (081806Z JUL 09)
1.(SBU) Embassy Kingston appreciates the opportunity to approve /
comment on Embassy London's proposal outlined reftel (A),
paragraphs 6 and 7, for vetting country clearance requests for the
Cayman Islands. Post agrees to the proposal as outlined. With
respect to the "general, long-standing rule" outlined reftel (A),
paragraph 6, whereby "responsibility for substantive issues
involving British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean have been
divided between London, Bridgetown, Kingston, and Nassau, with
London handling affairs related to foreign and defense matters and
Bridgetown, Kingston, and Nassau responsible for everything else,
such as education, press, culture, etc.," by way of clarification,
Post must note the following caveats:
(A) Embassy Kingston has never exercised responsibilities for
economic or commercial affairs in the Cayman Islands, and does not
have the resources to do so.
(B) the Defense Attach???? in Kingston has been designated as the
diplomatic representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Cayman
Islands.
(C) the Public Affairs Section (PAS) of Embassy Kingston deals with
the media in the Cayman Islands, but does not have the personnel or
budget officially to take on the educational and cultural
components of public affairs work in the Cayman Islands.
(D) the Consular Section of Embassy Kingston is unaware of any
"informal arrangement with London's Consular Section" to "let
London know via e-mail when a consular officer is planning to visit
. . . ." Embassy Kingston independently manages and supports the
U.S. Consular Agency in the Cayman Islands, including regular
visits by officers from a variety of its offices. Unless there is
a reason to change the existing system, Kingston's consular
personnel will continue to visit the Cayman Islands whenever
necessary with the understanding that London concurs in these
visits.
Parnell
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AMGT ASEC APER CMGT PBTS EFIN BEXP PREL KCOM JM CJ
UK, XL
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: COUNTRY CLEARANCES AND BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
IN THE CARIBBEAN (CAYMAN ISLANDS)
REF: LONDON 1375 (110806Z JUN 09); KINGSTON 530 (081806Z JUL 09)
1.(SBU) Embassy Kingston appreciates the opportunity to approve /
comment on Embassy London's proposal outlined reftel (A),
paragraphs 6 and 7, for vetting country clearance requests for the
Cayman Islands. Post agrees to the proposal as outlined. With
respect to the "general, long-standing rule" outlined reftel (A),
paragraph 6, whereby "responsibility for substantive issues
involving British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean have been
divided between London, Bridgetown, Kingston, and Nassau, with
London handling affairs related to foreign and defense matters and
Bridgetown, Kingston, and Nassau responsible for everything else,
such as education, press, culture, etc.," by way of clarification,
Post must note the following caveats:
(A) Embassy Kingston has never exercised responsibilities for
economic or commercial affairs in the Cayman Islands, and does not
have the resources to do so.
(B) the Defense Attach???? in Kingston has been designated as the
diplomatic representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Cayman
Islands.
(C) the Public Affairs Section (PAS) of Embassy Kingston deals with
the media in the Cayman Islands, but does not have the personnel or
budget officially to take on the educational and cultural
components of public affairs work in the Cayman Islands.
(D) the Consular Section of Embassy Kingston is unaware of any
"informal arrangement with London's Consular Section" to "let
London know via e-mail when a consular officer is planning to visit
. . . ." Embassy Kingston independently manages and supports the
U.S. Consular Agency in the Cayman Islands, including regular
visits by officers from a variety of its offices. Unless there is
a reason to change the existing system, Kingston's consular
personnel will continue to visit the Cayman Islands whenever
necessary with the understanding that London concurs in these
visits.
Parnell