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The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its 2002 direct request, which read as follows:

Article 5, paragraph 1(c) and (e), of the Convention. The Committee notes that the 144 Committee has been examining a number of unratified Conventions with the aim of identifying measures to promote their ratification. It recalls that the ILO Governing Body has invited States parties to the Recruitment of Indigenous Workers Convention, 1936 (No. 50), and the Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (No. 65) - which Trinidad and Tobago has ratified and are still in force - to contemplate ratifying the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), and denouncing Conventions Nos. 50 and 65 at the same time.

The Committee also recalls that, on becoming a Member of the ILO, Trinidad and Tobago undertook to continue to apply the Labour Inspectorates (Non-Metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947 (No. 85), until it was able to ratify the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81).

The Committee would appreciate it if in its next report the Government would indicate if consultations were envisaged on these matters and on any progress with regard to the ratification of recent Conventions.