T&T: The objective of the Barbados-Guyana pact

GUYANA President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday admitted that his country would make a formal claim to part of the disputed area in the Trinidad and Tobago/Venezuela Maritime Delimitation Treaty which was signed in 1990.
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Jagdeo said the position of Guyana has always protested against the controversial Maritime Delimitation Treaty.

"From the time the treaty was signed, Guyana, at several levels, protested the Treaty and our position remains the same today," Jagdeo added.
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Asked specifically if he was saying that Guyana had a claim to the "acreage" in the Delimitation Treaty, Jagdeo said "yes." He added that it is yet to be determined whether "we may have to file a brief in the same process but those are steps that the technical people will have to work out. I know that we are going to defend Guyana's interest in relation to that matter."

He said he was not as yet sure whether it may take a similar route that the one taken by Barbados via the United Nations or another route.

It's been 14 years since the Treaty was signed, and Guyana is now making a formal claim. Barbados must have told Guyana that Trinis are stupid. Oil is money, and oil doesn't spoil. As someone somewhere said recently, Caricom is about getting things from Trinidad and giving a knife in the back.