Key developments since 1999: Trinidad and Tobago became a State Party
on 1 March 2002. It was the first Caribbean state to adopt domestic
implementation legislation in June 2000.
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. Trinidad
and Tobago was the first Caribbean state to adopt domestic implementing
legislation, the “Anti-Personnel Mines Act no. 48,” which took
effect 1 June 2000.[1] Trinidad
and Tobago participated in the Ottawa Process, but it has not attended any Mine
Ban Treaty-related meetings since 1997. On 30 August 2002, Trinidad and Tobago
submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report for the period from August
1999 to August 2001, but it has not provided any subsequent update. Trinidad
and Tobago has voted in support of every annual pro-ban UN General Assembly
resolution since 1996. The country has never produced, transferred, stockpiled,
or used antipersonnel mines, and it is not
mine-affected.[2]
[1] The legislation comprehensively
prohibits antipersonnel mines and provides for penal sanctions including fines
of up to $50,000 (approximately US $8,000) and imprisonment of up to seven
years. Anti-Personnel Mines Act, 2000 (Act no. 48 of 2000), printed in Legal
Supplement Part A to the Trinidad and Tobago Gazette, Vol. 39, No. 193, 5
October 2000. The legislation is reprinted in the International Committee of the
Red Cross, “Information Kit on the Development of National Legislation to
Implement the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines,”
presented to the intersessional Standing Committee on General Status and
operation of the Convention, Geneva, 11 May 2001. See also Article 7 Report,
Form A, 30 August 2002. [2] Article 7
Report, Form B, 30 August 2002.
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