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Trinidad & Tobago: Regional Integration?

Monday, August 18th, 2008 @ 12:09 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Trinidad & Tobago
Topics:: Ideas, Cyber-Activism, Economics, Governance, History, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

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“Trinidad and Tobago would seek economic integration by 2011, and political integration by 2013, with any or all of the nine members of the Organisation of East Caribbean States”: Notes from Port of Spain is astounded by the news, saying: “Nobody even knew this was under discussion. It's exactly the sort of process which will ensure that the scheme doesn't work: policy announced from the top to a cynical population without even being properly thought out.”

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