Trinidad and To­ba­go has record­ed on­ly two con­vic­tions for hu­man traf­fick­ing of­fences, de­spite 85 peo­ple ap­pear­ing be­fore the courts for traf­fick­ing and re­lat­ed of­fences be­tween 2013 and 2024, ac­cord­ing to the Gov­ern­ment’s sub­mis­sion to the Unit­ed Na­tions Hu­man Rights Coun­cil’s Uni­ver­sal Pe­ri­od­ic Re­view (UPR).

The grand­daugh­ter of for­mer prime min­is­ter ANR Robin­son says the rule of law re­mains es­sen­tial to­day as it was 24 years ago when the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) was es­tab­lished.

Com­mon­wealth lead­ers have agreed to pur­sue struc­tured di­a­logue on repara­to­ry jus­tice, in­clud­ing the his­tor­i­cal harms of the transat­lantic traf­fick­ing of en­slaved Africans, as the is­sue took cen­tre stage at the 2026 Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da.

For­mer for­eign and Cari­com af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go could be named in con­gres­sion­al in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion fol­low­ing the De­moc­rats’ sweep­ing vic­to­ry in the US midterm elec­tions.

Re­tired di­rec­tor of the In­sti­tute of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Dr An­tho­ny Gon­za­les, says Trinidad and To­ba­go has his­tor­i­cal­ly ben­e­fit­ed from both Re­pub­li­can and De­mo­c­ra­t­ic ad­min­is­tra­tions in the Unit­ed States, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to de­clare one par­ty more ad­van­ta­geous to the coun­try.

Busi­ness lead­ers and com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­als in Trinidad and To­ba­go are cau­tious­ly as­sess­ing the im­pli­ca­tions of the re­cent US midterm elec­tions. Their views range from po­ten­tial ex­port op­por­tu­ni­ties and busi­ness con­ti­nu­ity to the grow­ing in­flu­ence of younger po­lit­i­cal lead­ers and chang­ing vot­er sen­ti­ment.

An ac­tivist says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her min­is­ters should choose their words care­ful­ly when dis­cussing the coun­try’s re­la­tion­ship with the Unit­ed States, par­tic­u­lar­ly in re­sponse to the re­sults of a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic elec­tion in a sov­er­eign na­tion.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has urged cit­i­zens to ex­er­cise greater cau­tion when con­sum­ing and shar­ing in­for­ma­tion on so­cial me­dia, warn­ing that ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) is mak­ing it in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to dis­tin­guish truth from false­hood.

Res­i­dents of Mal­oney Gar­dens are call­ing on the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to clear over­grown bush­es around their build­ings, say­ing vol­un­teers can­not man­age the work alone.

Af­ter Cab­i­net in­creased fines for traf­fic of­fences, po­lice is­sued more than $171 mil­lion worth of tick­ets for the nine of­fences, with fixed penal­ties among the top 10 vi­o­la­tions record­ed up to last month.

The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has en­dorsed Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don’s po­si­tion that of­fer­ing Com­mu­nion wine to peo­ple of all ages is con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly pro­tect­ed, dis­miss­ing the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the new al­co­hol leg­is­la­tion as a “storm in a teacup.”

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is de­mand­ing an­swers from Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der over on­go­ing pass­port de­lays, claim­ing cit­i­zens at­tempt­ing to book ap­point­ments are now be­ing as­signed dates as far away as April 2027.