Trinidad-Barbados dispute over 1990 Maritime Treaty

Thursday, February 19, 2004

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados has decided to involve the United Nations in a "compulsory and binding arbitration process" to authoritatively resolve their maritime boundary dispute that has arisen from the 1990 Maritime Delimitation Treaty that Trinidad and Tobago signed with Venezuela.

Barbados Prime Minister Arthur has also announced that as a consequence of the unresolved fishing rights dispute-which continues to be elusive after some 14 years-Barbados would add a range of imports from T&T to a licensing regime, including fruits and vegetables, beer, aerated beverages, fish and ice cream.

However, the proposed move to penalize T&T exporters to Barbados, in retaliation for the continuing arrests of Barbadian fishermen by T&T, would be temporarily shelved as both parties pursue new initiatives on the fishing row, without prejudice to the coming international arbitration process on their maritime boundaries. 

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