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Schooners vital to trade among Caribbean countries
Thursday 4 March 2021
Vessels in dock at the Caricom jetty in Port of Spain. Intra-regional trade is vital to food sustainability of Caribbean countries. PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI -
Reuben Robertson,
Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname
On the afternoon of Monday, February 15, I stepped off a jetty in St Vincent and the Grenadines and boarded the Admiral Bay 1, a motorised sea vessel traditionally called a schooner.
Every week, the vessel sails the 18-hour journey over rough seas between St Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago.
The boat leaves St Vincent on Monday and arrives in Port of Spain on Tuesday morning. It begins the return leg of the journey on Thursday afternoon and arrives in St Vincent on Friday morning.