Trinidad & Tobago: Regional Integration?  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“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.”