https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/06/27/sir-mark-sedwill-pm-oust-uks-senior-civil-servant-whitehall/

Sir Mark Sedwill, the UK’s most senior civil servant, looks set to ­announce his departure as early as this week under Boris Johnson’s plans for a Whitehall revolution.

The ousting of Sir Mark will be the most obvious signal that a long-planned shake-up of the Civil Service by Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s chief aide, is gathering pace.

Several sources told The Sunday Telegraph that an announcement would be made about Sir Mark’s future as early as Monday.

Sir Mark was appointed National Security Adviser by Theresa May in 2017 and then was made Cabinet Secretary a year later and controversially allowed to do both jobs.

One source said Sir Mark was “fighting to stay as National Security Adviser” and already seemed resigned to losing his post as Cabinet Secretary….

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https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/jamaica-haiti-drugs-guns/

Criminal gangs in Jamaica and Haiti are engaged in a deadly trade: the exchange of marijuana for guns.

Boats loaded with up to 3,000 pounds of cannabis take off from Jamaica’s coastline, speeding across the Caribbean to nearby Haiti, where the drugs are swapped for handguns and high-powered assault weapons. The boats return with the firearms, which are then sold off piecemeal or in bulk.

The guns-for-drugs trade, as it is known in Jamaica, is greased by traffickers and gangs, while Jamaican fishermen serve as both couriers and middlemen, according to an investigative report in the Jamaica Gleaner.

Haiti is not the only source for illegal weapons in Jamaica. US weapons are also smuggled through the country’s ports, hidden among other goods.

“The newer and higher-powered weapons are mostly imported from the United States,” Clayton said. “The ones from Haiti are sometimes called the rusty guns, because they tend to be older.”

Haiti has also become a destination for US weapons, despite an arms embargo. In February 2019, a Florida gun shop owner was found guilty of conspiring with highly placed Haitian officials to traffic more than 166 semi-automatic weapons in the back of a truck seized at a port outside of Port-au-Prince. Later that year, a US Marine was arrested when his flight landed in Haiti after he was found with three checked plastic boxes containing eight firearms, ammunition and body armor.

“There is higher-level collusion,” he said. “Think about the organizing that goes into this, delivering the bales of ganja [marijuana], making sure the weapons come back and then moving them away from the jetty, then distribution. The fishermen are not doing this on their own.”