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Sascha Wil­son

Ad­vo­cates and mem­bers of the mi­grant com­mu­ni­ty have wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­pan­sion of the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work, which al­lows for all un­doc­u­ment­ed mi­grants to reg­is­ter and legal­ly live and work in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Co­or­di­na­tor of the La Ro­maine Mi­grant Sup­port Group, Ang­ie Ram­nar­ine, de­scribed the move as long over­due, say­ing it brings much-need­ed re­lief to the tens of thou­sands of mi­grants cur­rent­ly liv­ing in the coun­try, many of whom are Venezue­lan na­tion­als. She said there is al­so a sig­nif­i­cant Cuban mi­grant pop­u­la­tion.