US Drug-czar in the Dominican Republic

. The adviser to President Clinton on drugs policy, Barry McCaffrey, is in the Dominican Republic to talk about measures to combat drug-trafficking in the Caribbean.

He is due to meet the Dominican President, Leonel Fernandez.

During a visit to Puerto Rico yesterday, Mr McCaffrey said smugglers were increasingly using Haiti and the Dominican Republic as shipping points to get illegal drugs into the United States.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service