(Excerpt: The Guardian Article, The new drug highway: Pacific Islands at center of cocaine trafficking boom, dated 24 June 2019)  It is the drug route you’ve never heard of: a multi billion-dollar operation involving cocaine and methamphetamine being packed into the hulls of sailing boats in the US and Latin America and transported to Australia…

The 21st Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) annual conference commenced on 13th May, 2019 in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI), hosted by the CNMI Customs division with the theme “A united Pacific working towards a common solution”. The conference was opened with statements from the CNMI Director of Customs, Mr Jose Mafnas, Governor of…