In this series, veteran photojournalist Headley 'Dellmar' Samuels shares highlights of the ICC Cricket World Cup, which was hosted in England in 1999. Email Dellmar: dellmar@cwjamaica.com. - Courtney Walsh celebrates the wicket of Scotland's ... Davies via the lbw route in a 1999 Cricket World Cup clash in England.

PORT-OF-SPAIN (Trinidad Express):

CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) nationals will get new high-tech visas to be used for travel during the Cricket World Cup next year.

Global technology company, 3M, is supplying the visas.

It announced on Friday that it won the contract for the visa issuance system which it will supply using the 3M Identity Document Issuance Systems (IDIS).

"The 3M IDIS software for producing ICAO-compliant passports and visas, driver's licences and other identity cards is a highly secure, sophisticated identity document issuance system," a 3M statement said.

"As the Caribbean readies itself to host the world for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, consulates of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago will use 3M IDIS to improve visa security and issuance efficiency," 3M said.

More than 100,000 machine-readable visas will be issued in the months leading up to the tournament.

Once issued, security features within the travel document help prevent alteration or tampering, the technology company said.