Local News
Trinidad State of Emergency: September 17 Is Coming. What Did We Gain?
The Trinidad State of Emergency is scheduled to expire on September 17, 2026. For families with someone in custody, the immediate question is whether that person…
Carnival
Carnival Prize Money: Mas Bands Chase 2026 Payments as the Countdown to 2027 Continues
Carnival Prize Money puts two timetables in focus: settling 2026 awards and preparing for 2027. The NCC and TTCBA accounts, with the limits made clear.
Culture & Food
Machel Montano’s Brooklyn Spotlight Shows How Soca History Is Being Saved for the Next Generation
A Brooklyn exhibition celebrates Machel Montano while revealing how family archives, libraries and Caribbean communities keep musical history alive.
Global News
Venezuela Oil Revival: Can Trinidad and Tobago Turn Its Neighbour’s Comeback into Jobs and Gas?
Venezuela’s energy reopening could bring contracts, gas and investment opportunities to Trinidad and Tobago. What must happen before local workers, businesses and industry benefit?
Caribbean
US Deportation Deals Are Spreading Through CARICOM. Who Pays When People Cannot Go Home?
As US Deportation Deals spread through CARICOM, the hardest questions begin after arrival: who funds the stay, what protections apply and what happens when people cannot…
Opinion
PRIME MINISTER OF WHICH FAMILY? KAMLA’S INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE FAILS THE TEST OF NATIONAL UNITY
An Independence appeal to a political family, followed by combative defences, raises serious questions about the Prime Minister’s commitment to national unity. Kamla’s Independence message to…
Opinion
HELP BEFORE HANDCUFFS: T&T’S GOVERNMENT CANNOT PUNISH ITS WAY OUT OF THE TRINIDAD CRIME CRISIS
The Trinidad crime crisis demands a government that acts before children become victims, recruits or suspects. Arrests and punishment cannot substitute for education, counselling and steady…
Opinion
TRINIDAD DATA CENTRE COMING TO DEBE? THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY OF TRINIDAD’S 450-MEGAWATT GAMBLE
Trinidad and Tobago may be preparing to make one of the biggest industrial bets in its modern history. The proposed Trinidad Data Centre projects could attract…
Local News
THE HADEED FILES: FROM BLUE WATERS TO EMERGENCY POWERS
Everything publicly known so far about Dominic and Genevieve Hadeed—their businesses, community service, detention, Preventive Detention Orders, court challenge and the State’s decision to bring in…
Local News
FROM PROCUREMENT WATCHDOG TO PNM SENATOR: WHY DR MARGARET SATYA ROSE’S APPOINTMENT MAY BE PENNY BECKLES’ BIGGEST SIGNAL YET
When Margaret Satya Rose was sworn in as a PNM Senator, it was not just another name being added to the Red House roll call. It…
Local News
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MURDER COUNT 2026: Weekly Updated Dashboard
This article is updated every Monday with the previous week’s murder count tally. Total Murders So Far in 2026: 255Murders This Week (Week 36): 6Change From…
Trending
Why Singapore Is the World’s “Best Dictatorship” — and Richer Than the U.K.
Singapore isn’t supposed to exist, at least, not the way it does now. A tiny island with no oil, no farmland, no rivers, no gold, no…
Satire
26 Celebrities Who Look Alike So Much They Could Swap Lives And No One Would Notice
1. Timothée Chalamet & Natalia Dyer — The Gender-Bending Doppelgängers Let’s start our celebrities who look alike countdown with the duo that broke the internet —…
