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16 December 2020, 16:11 UTC
As initial information emerges of a new shipwreck on Venezuela’s coast, Louise Tillotson, Caribbean Researcher at Amnesty International, writes about governments’ obligations to provide international protection for refugees.
It’s February 2020 and on the Savannah, in Port of Spain, Trinidad a coconut vendor talks about “the virus” emerging in China. He’s worried that the island’s world-famous carnival is just around the corner and that cases will be imported.
Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse countries in the Caribbean and as such, the vendor was worried that the country’s diaspora, coming from as far as China to closer-by Canada, bulges the population of the island during each carnival. Trinidadians, like most Caribbean people, know migration is part of life.
Shameful situation
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Two-thirds of prison population in remand sections
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Frustrating inaction
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