PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago will not send troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, the prime minister said Wednesday, reversing an earlier promise to send 121 soldiers. In a decision with political ramifications for the region, Prime Minister Patrick Manning said ``there is no shortage of troops going into Haiti'' and the best way for Trinidad to help is through humanitarian and financial aid. But only a fraction of the projected 8,000 troops and police had arrived Tuesday, when Brazil took command of the new U.N. mission replacing a 3,600 force from four nations led by U.S. Marines. The 15-nation Caribbean Community, which had urged the international community to send troops and promised to contribute to the force as rebels closed in on Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, refused to send its own troops to join a U.S.-led multinational force that arrived after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted Feb. 29. Aristide charged the United States forced him out in a coup. U.S. officials strongly denied the charge. But Caribbean countries demanded an international investigation into Aristide's departure, a call echoed by the 53-member African Union. Manning said Wednesday that Caribbean countries still have ``grave doubts'' about the circumstances of Aristide's hurried departure aboard a U.S.-chartered aircraft. But he did not say if that had influenced his change of mind. ``As of now, Trinidad and Tobago will not send troops into Haiti,'' Manning told reporters after making a speech. Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica and Guyana all had indicated they might send troops to join the U.N. force, but Trinidad was the only one to give a firm number 121 though none of the countries made formal pledges to the United Nations. SOURCE: CARIBUPDATE.COM