CONCERNS ARE growing about how the crisis
in Venezuela may impact on the Caribbean region as a whole. Recently, the
United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that over 40,000
Venezuelans are now present in Trinidad & Tobago. And according to
statistics from the Geneva based body between mid-2015 and mid-2016, there was
an 257 per cent increase in asylum seekers in the region. Belize, the Dominican
Republic and Trinidad were the top three countries for those seeking a
safe-haven, but that numbers were also increasing elsewhere in the area. More…
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