Jamaica restarts Trinidad LNG negotiations

摘要

Trinidad and Tobago has resumed negotiations to supply LNG to Jamaica, government ministers in both countries say. Trinidad has told Jamaica that it is willing to supply LNG, Trinidad energy minister Kevin Ramnarine says. And Jamaica’s industry minister Anthony Hylton confirms that Jamaica has “reengaged” Trinidad and is “keen” to reach an early agreement. Trinidad agreed in 2004 to supply 1.1mn t/yr of LNG over a 20-year period. But Jamaica’s former Labour party government later claimed that Trinidad had reneged on the agreement — a claim denied by Trinidad’s then prime minister Patrick Manning, who maintained that the deal would be honoured.