{"id":658,"date":"2008-10-09T22:11:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T02:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-10-09T22:11:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T02:11:47","slug":"why-is-tt-not-talking-to-the-venezuelans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Why is T&#038;T Not Talking to the Venezuelans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Stephen Kangal<br \/>\nOctober 08, 2008<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/ttv.jpg' width='150' height='113' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela' \/>Prior to the commencement of the TT\/Barbados Maritime Boundary Arbitration I wrote in March 2004 to former Minister of Foreign Affairs Knowlson Gift advising that T&#038;T should hold immediate consultations with our Venezuelan treaty partner with respect to collaborating on the defence of the maritime boundary that they jointly established by treaty in 1990. Points 1 to 22 of the boundary are illustrated in the chart below.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThat advice was ignored. T&#038;T entered an appearance into the arbitral tribunal hearings held in London led by former AG John Jeremie without appreciating that the heart and soul of the success of T&#038;T in the bilateral litigation, from a T&#038;T perspective, lay exclusively in upholding the legal integrity of the illustrated bilateral boundary in tact against any encroachment on the allotted areas from Barbados.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/kangal\/081008.html\">Full Article : trinidadandtobagonews.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Kangal October 08, 2008 Prior to the commencement of the TT\/Barbados Maritime Boundary Arbitration I wrote in March 2004 to former Minister of Foreign Affairs Knowlson Gift advising that T&#038;T should hold immediate consultations with our Venezuelan treaty partner with respect to collaborating on the defence of the maritime boundary that they jointly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is T&#038;T Not Talking to the Venezuelans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-general-tt","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}