The Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley is declaring ahead of Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 that the Caribbean should not be regarded as an easy target for terrorist plots. Mottley, who chairs the Caribbean Community (Caricom) sub-committee dealing with visas for persons hoping to visit and travel within the region during CWC 2007, made the remarks here in Monday evening. She was on a one-day visit to the country where she got a first-hand look at arrangements for the implementation of a single domestic space in the region. "People out there need to know that this is not a region that has disregarded security, so don't bother to come and feel that we are easy targets," Mottley said. "We believe that while we cannot guarantee nothing will happen, we are trying our best to mitigate against anything happening," she said. "We have a responsibility to protect the region because we know that the cost and the time of recovery will be beyond our capacity, and it will bring untold suffering to the region if we did not try to minimise it." The Barbados deputy leader said the region had undertaken the responsibility to host the third largest global sporting event and noted that the countries involved in world cricket are at the centre of the global war against terrorism, namely Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom and Australia. She noted that while the United States was not there as a competing nation, that country is the second largest source of visitors to Cricket World Cup. Reprinted from jamaicaobserver.com