T&T TURNS BACK ON CUBA

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s his­toric de­ci­sion to vote against a Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the Unit­ed States’ eco­nom­ic em­bar­go against Cu­ba has drawn strong con­dem­na­tion from for­mer gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and raised con­cerns about the coun­try’s for­eign pol­i­cy di­rec­tion.

The vote marks the first time in over three decades that T&T has op­posed the res­o­lu­tion, break­ing its long­stand­ing diplo­mat­ic po­si­tion.

In a sig­nif­i­cant de­par­ture from pol­i­cy yes­ter­day, T&T joined the US and 15 oth­er coun­tries in op­pos­ing the res­o­lu­tion, which was even­tu­al­ly over­whelm­ing­ly adopt­ed by the Gen­er­al As­sem­bly.