Barbados v. Trinidad and Tobago

Barbados v. Trinidad and Tobago was a 2006 arbitral case between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago in which the tribunal resolved the maritime border dispute between the two countries.

[1] In 1990, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago signed a maritime boundary treaty.

The treaty purported to assign to Trinidad and Tobago ocean territory that Barbados claimed as its own.

In 2004, Barbados elected to force the issue into binding arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The boundary was set nearly midway between the land of the two island countries.