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CARICOM Youth Crime Committee: Eight Young Voices, but Will Trinidad and Tobago Turn Advice Into Action?
Eight young advisers could help shape regional crime prevention. We examine who gets heard, what the evidence says about youth and violence in T&T, and how advice could become measurable action.
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Machel Montano’s Brooklyn Spotlight Shows How Soca History Is Being Saved for the Next Generation
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Venezuela Oil Revival: Can Trinidad and Tobago Turn Its Neighbour’s Comeback into Jobs and Gas?
Caribbean
US Deportation Deals Are Spreading Through CARICOM. Who Pays When People Cannot Go Home?
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PRIME MINISTER OF WHICH FAMILY? KAMLA’S INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE FAILS THE TEST OF NATIONAL UNITY
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HELP BEFORE HANDCUFFS: T&T’S GOVERNMENT CANNOT PUNISH ITS WAY OUT OF THE TRINIDAD CRIME CRISIS
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MORE POLICE. MORE SOEs. BUT TRINIDAD CRIME FIGHT MEANS STOPPING THE NEXT RECRUIT
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Trinidad State of Emergency: September 17 Is Coming. What Did We Gain?
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Carnival Prize Money: Mas Bands Chase 2026 Payments as the Countdown to 2027 Continues
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 —…
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY OF TRINIDAD INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS MACHINE
The call. The cage. The leak—and the surveillance system every citizen should understand Imagine making a private telephone call. You complain about the Government. You use…
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WHO REALLY MUTED PARLIAMENT? THE MIC ROW THAT TURNED A STANDARD PROCEDURE INTO A POLITICAL FIRESTORM
The phrase Muted Parliament is now doing what Trinidad and Tobago politics does best: turning a technical issue into a national firestorm, a procedural matter into…
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Endless State of Emergency. Is T&T Fighting Crime or Getting Comfortable With Emergency Government?
State of Emergency Again? T&T Wants Safety, But at What Price? A State of Emergency is supposed to feel like a fire extinguisher. You break the…
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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…
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UNREAL PARADISE: The Top 10 Things to Do in St Lucia That’ll Leave You Breathless
Welcome to St Lucia — Where the Island Shows Off Some islands whisper. Saint Lucia flexes.Volcanic peaks rising straight out of the sea, rainforest wrapping the…
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Middle East War, Caribbean Pain: Why a Conflict Thousands of Miles Away Could Break Island Budgets
The phrase Middle East War Caribbean Pain might sound dramatic, but for the region’s consumers, small businesses, and governments, it is becoming a brutally practical reality.…
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A New Caribbean Power Axis? Can Guyana and T&T Really Build a New Economic Era?
For years, Caribbean integration has sounded like one of those nice conference phrases politicians dust off between handshakes, buffet lunches and photo ops. But this latest…
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The 10 Most Powerful Caribbean Passports in 2026 — Barbados Still Reigns
In 2026, the Most Powerful Caribbean Passports are not just about who can breeze through an airport with less hassle. They are about prestige, diplomacy, leverage,…
