Top: Regional: Caribbean: Barbados: Transnational Issues


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Disputes International

Barbados intends to take its claim before UNCLOS arbitration that the northern limit of Trinidad and Tobago's maritime boundary with Venezuela extends into its waters; joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UNCLOS, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea.


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Illicit drugs

One of many Caribbean transshipment points for narcotics bound for Europe and the US; offshore financial center.



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