Barbados v. Trinidad and Tobago

Barbados v. Trinidad and Tobago
Court	Permanent Court of Arbitration
Full case name	In the Matter of an Arbitration between Bardabos and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Decided	April 11, 2006
Court membership
Judges sitting	Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, president Mr. Ian Brownlie CBE QC Professor Vaughan Lowe Professor Francisco Orrego Vicuña Sir Arthur Watts
Case opinions
Decision by	Unanimous panel

Barbados v. Trinidad and Tobago was a 2006 case between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in which the court resolved the maritime border dispute between the two countries.

Maritime of Barbados showing (southern) U.N. instituted boundary

In 1990, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago signed a maritime boundary treaty. The treaty purported to assign to Trinidad and Tobago ocean territory that Barbados claimed as its own. The countries were unable to resolve their dispute for 14 years. In 2004, Barbados elected to force the issue into binding arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Permanent Court of Arbitration heard the case.

The court's ruling and award was issued on 11 April 2006. The boundary was set nearly midway between the land of the two island countries. Although neither country's claimed boundary was adopted by the court, the boundary that was set was closer to that claimed by Trinidad and Tobago. Both countries claimed victory after the arbitration ruling was announced.^[1]

See also

• Barbados – Trinidad and Tobago relations

Notes

References

• Andon Blake and Gary A. Campbell, "Conflict over flying fish: The dispute between Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados", Marine Policy, vol. 31, no. 3, May 2007, pp. 327–335.
• Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago Award, Tribunal's President H.E. Stephen M. Schwebel, published in XXVII UNRIAA 147-251 and PCA Award Series and Cambridge 2010 and Key Boundaries
• Analysis of Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago under Presidency of H.E. Judge Stephen M. Schwebel and Award's Map and Coalter Lathrop Map and 22 IJMCL 7-60 2007 and NILOS and NILOS Online Papers and NILOS New Website and 39 GWILR pp.573-620 2007 No.3 and Full Text and Catalogue
• Barbados Submission to CLCS and 22nd CLCS 18 August-12 September 2008
• INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY CONSULTANTS
• How Trinidad Recognised Venezuela’s Claim to Most Of Guyana’s Land 18 June 2007, Notes From The Margin

External links

• Permanent Court of Arbitration case page