Commonwealth summit to grapple with climate change, rights

Burning issues of climate change, the global economic crisis and human rights will be on the minds of Commonwealth heads of states and government when they get together in Port of Spain later this week. The 2009 summit of the 53-member association of former British colonies and dependancies will be opened Friday by Queen Elizabeth II, who travelled to the Trinidad and Tobago capital from Bermuda, where she took part in celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of British settlement on the island.