Trinidad and Tobago
signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997, ratified on 27 April 1998, and
the treaty entered into force on 1 March 1999. It was the first Caribbean state
to adopt domestic implementing legislation, the “Anti-Personnel Mines Act
no. 48 of 2000.”[1] This
legislation came into force on 1 June 2000 and “give[s] force of law to
Article 9 of the
Convention.”[2] Trinidad
and Tobago cosponsored and voted in favor of pro-ban UN General Assembly
Resolution 57/74 in November 2002. It submitted its initial Article 7
transparency report on 30 August 2002. Trinidad and Tobago has never produced,
transferred, stockpiled, or used antipersonnel mines, and is not
mine-affected.[3]