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What Vybz Kartel’s no-show in Trinidad could reveal about the sustainability of cultural performances in the Caribbean

Written by Dave Williams

2 weeks ago

Trinidad & Tobago’s Joshua Regrello enters Guinness Book with record-breaking steelpan-playing marathon

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

2 weeks ago

Tobago's coral reefs brace for ‘imminent threat’

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

13 May 2025

World Press Freedom Day: Caribbean media faces new challenges in the age of AI

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

3 May 2025

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A push for constitutional reform in Trinidad & Tobago as overturned ‘buggery law’ ruling heads for the Privy Council

Colonial-era laws have questionable place in any modern democracy [yet] remain fossilised in our statute books’

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

3 weeks ago

Trinidad & Tobago votes for change as country’s first woman prime minister makes a triumphant return

The electorate grew weary of economic struggles and rising rates of violent crime

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

1 May 2025

Caribbean leaders and citizens recognise Pope Francis’ groundbreaking work

His compassion, advocacy for the poor, refugees and immigrants, and outreach to the LGBTQ+ community and other marginalised groups gained him many admirers

Written by Emma Lewis

22 April 2025

When it comes to bullying, small actions can help stop big problems

'From playpens to playgrounds to politics, bullying is everybody’s business'

Written by Guest Contributor

12 April 2025

Trinbagonian poet Anthony V. Capildeo vies for the Caribbean's top literary award

Their poetry is described as 'immersed equally in narrative and lyric, querying forms with an insistent playfulness and a radical political consciousness'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

9 April 2025

Farewell to Mark Loquan, a beacon of energy and culture in Trinidad & Tobago

'Mark’s contribution to the world of steelpan is enormous. His actions were consequential in ways that will impact for generations'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

8 April 2025

As Trinidad & Tobago’s Court of Appeal reverses buggery law ruling, does the colonial grip persist?

Savings law is a fairly common concept in Commonwealth legal systems, whereby restrictive colonial-era laws are carried over into post-independence legal frameworks

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

29 March 2025

Caribbean leaders and citizens fiercely defend the Cuban Medical Cooperation Programme

The Trump administration recently announced visa restrictions for foreign officials that the US considers 'complicit' in Cuba’s foreign medical programmes

Written by Emma Lewis

25 March 2025

Has Trinidad & Tobago got comfortable with environmental degradation?

'[A]t its core, the mistreatment of nature in Trinidad and Tobago is more than an environmental crisis'

Written by Cari-Bois News

25 March 2025

Trinidad & Tobago's moko jumbie master, ‘Dragon’ de Souza, takes his last stride

'His impact on the growth of the Moko Jumbie art form in Trinidad and Tobago is too immense to be measured'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

19 March 2025

From visa-free to visa fees, the UK's new requirements for Trinidad & Tobago nationals stir debate

'[O]ur colonists have found another way to extract our wealth ...'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

14 March 2025

Rex Lasalle, a leader of Trinidad & Tobago's 1970 army mutiny in support of the Black Power movement, has died

'[People] want a relationship based on respect, unity, and moral authority'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

27 February 2025

How the Caribbean views the Trump administration's mass deportations

The language used around deportation often leads to negative perceptions of those involved

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco, Candice Stewart

14 February 2025

Two lost boats recovered in the Caribbean speak to the tragic side of African migration

African migration can be driven by economic, political, safety, or environmental concerns

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco, Zita Zage

12 February 2025

Why Trinidad and Tobago artists are up in arms about the country’s attempt to ‘decolonise’ its coat of arms

'A coat of arms is a story stitched from emblems. [...] A clumsily edited story, it is shaping up to be!'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

26 January 2025

Guided by the light: Photos from Latin America and the Caribbean, with love

'January days are just special around the Caribbean'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco, Estefanía Salazar, Emma Lewis

16 January 2025

‘I didn’t set out to be extraordinary': Trinidad & Tobago mourns veteran journalist Jones P. Madeira

'There is no history of regional media to be written without mention of his name'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

13 January 2025

Trinidad & Tobago's Roger Boothman remembered as an extraordinary musician

'One of our finest songwriters passed [and] his passing continues the decimation of legacy in the arts ...'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

12 January 2025

A proud Trinidad & Tobago awaits Guinness Record ruling on young steel pannist’s musical marathon

'[There] were people who knew [there] would be a million moments [when] a discarded oil drum could make a tiny broken place feel whole'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

8 January 2025

Year in review: Climate justice remained a pressing issue for the Caribbean in 2024

'[Beryl is] evidence of the entrenchment of the Caribbean region as the canary in the coal mine of the climate catastrophe'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

28 December 2024

Global Voices Summit 2024: Where have all the bloggers gone?

‘I saw the space change entirely’

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

20 December 2024

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