MISPLACED HOSTILITY based on emotions.
That, in essence, is how Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM Robert “Bobby” Morris has described the anti-Trinidad and Tobago sentiment that has surfaced over that country’s recent trade dispute with a local manufacturer and the expansion of Trinidad and Tobago-controlled business in Barbados.
Morris, who was part of a two-man team that intervened to help resolve the problems Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) faced in getting its Pine Hill Dairy products into the twin-island republic, said there had been “no negativity” from Trinidad officials in the matter.
“We found that the Trinidadians were quite willing to do whatever it took,” he said in an interview in St Lucia where he was part of a Barbados delegation at the just-concluded 33rd Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government.
