Beyond The T&T Smokescreen

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Whatever it is A.J. Nicholson drank last Friday, we hope Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will insist that he recommend it to Industry Minister Anthony Hylton. The foreign minister, speaking in the Senate, properly dressed down critics of Trinidad and Tobago's trade practices, saying that if there are genuine issues concerning the application of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, aggrieved parties should take them to the Caribbean Court of Justice. Additionally, Nicholson said Jamaica has spent so much time belly-aching about the way Trinidad and Tobago carries out its affairs, the country appears to be losing sight of other opportunities for trade. He is so correct that there are opportunities for trade in lands such as Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as well as in South-South countries such as Brazil and Venezuela.