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Legislators in Trinidad and Tobago have extended a state of emergency after the attorney general said the twin-island nation’s prison system has been compromised. He blamed prison officers and even attorneys of helping i...

Exxon Mobil has begun negotiations with the Trinidad and Tobago government to explore for oil and gas in up to seven deepwater blocks off the East Coast of the Caribbean country, which the top U.S. oil producer left more...

Two men charged in connection with a cocaine seizure valued at over TT$254 million appeared before a Port of Spain High Court Master on Friday.

Trinidad and Tobago's new Prime Minister Stuart Young has called for a general election a day after taking office in a surprise move seen as an effort to secure his own mandate in the Caribbean island nation.

Trinidad’s Commissioner of Police, Erla Harewood-Christopher, was released from police custody on Saturday after being held at the St. Clair Police Station in connection with the illegal procurement of high-powered rifle...

THE Trinidad and Tobago Police Service will continue to put resources into building community ties as part of its efforts to reduce the “scourge” of domestic violence, head of the Gender Based Violence Unit (GBVU) Michel...

Up to Friday, just under 19,000 people had received the vaccine, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said yesterday. However, the ministry’s aim is to have at least 50,000 citizens vaccinated, he added.

A Trinidadian security guard is the country's fifth murder victim for the year.

Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency on Monday as the government braced for reprisal shootings after an attempt on a gang leader's life, officials said.

Police in Trinidad and Tobago said they have confiscated more than $6 million worth of drugs, one of the biggest seizures in the history of the twin-island Caribbean nation.

Gang violence in Trinidad and Tobago is on the rise, and without significant policy changes, predictive models suggest the trend will worsen over the coming years.

Leaders across the Caribbean were still tallying the financial toll wrought by the earliest Atlantic storm on record to intensify to the maximum Category 5 level, after it left a trail of destruction on Jamaica and islan...

Hurricane Beryl caused devastating damage in several Caribbean islands, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Friday as the Category 3 storm churned towards Mexico's Yucatan...

Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 storm on a path that would take it near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after earlier making landfall in the southeast Caribbean, killing at...

Seven children have died in four days from a bacterial infection at Trinidad's Port of Spain General Hospital, said the island's health authorities.

A week after an oil spill was first spotted near Tobago's shore, portions of the stain are moving in opposite directions into the Caribbean Sea, the island's emergency management agency (TEMA) said on Wednesday, putting...

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister said a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused a “national emergency” as crews struggled to contain the oil already coating numerous beaches on...

A government inquiry into the deaths of four divers in Trinidad who became trapped in a pipe while doing maintenance for a state-owned fuel supplier recommends that prosecutors consider filing corporate manslaughter char...

A shooting on the eastern Caribbean island of Trinidad left three people dead and five others wounded, police said Wednesday. The violence occurred late Tuesday in the northwest town of Morvant when a van drove up to a g...

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Keith Rowley urged Canada on Thursday to help Caribbean countries reinforce their security by helping with coastal patrols as the region deals with worsening gun violence. Rowley spo...