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The Caribbean
7 reports
International Affairs · Investigative Analysis
War-crimes allegations, emergency powers and the legal risks facing Trinidad and Tobago
Mexico and Spain have challenged Trinidad and Tobago’s use of emergency powers. Across the Caribbean, US boat strikes raise a harder question: when can a security partner become legally responsible for the operations it helps?
NOV. 10, 2026
Justice & Rights · Visual Analysis
Same-sex intimacy is not a crime: how Jason Jones defeated Trinidad and Tobago’s law
The Jason Jones judgment is not only a verdict on a colonial inheritance. It is a reckoning with the law Trinidad and Tobago made for itself — and the constitutional rights that law could no longer defeat.
NOV. 10, 2026
Commentary · Faith & Society
Is wishing your neighbour well a betrayal of faith? A message to Jaamia Madinatul Uloom on festival greetings
A Marabella institute says Muslims must not greet neighbours of other faiths on their religious festivals — Christmas, Divali or any other. Its argument rests on an interpretation, not an explicit verse, and some of the most senior Muslim authorities in the world reach the opposite conclusion.
NOV. 9, 2026
World Affairs · Data analysis
Lame duck in Washington, exposed in Port of Spain: the Republican collapse and the Government that bet on Trump
Kansas last elected a Democratic senator in 1932, Texas in 1988. Both did on Tuesday. The data show how deep the Republican losses ran, how fast the party has turned on Trump and Hegseth over Iran, and why a Government in Port of Spain that staked its foreign policy on one President now faces a Congress run by the party it derided.
NOV. 5, 2026
Foreign Affairs · Analysis
Trump's pen, America's verdict: the cost of tying Trinidad and Tobago to one man in Washington
Eight months after Donald Trump handed Kamla Persad-Bissessar one of his signing pens, American voters rejected his party and the war in Iran that her Government endorsed within hours. The record shows a foreign policy built around one American President, and what it has cost with CARICOM and at the UN.
NOV. 4, 2026
Foreign Affairs · Investigation
From Country Club to American fortress: inside the half-billion-dollar U.S. Embassy rising in Maraval
For two centuries the land at Long Circular Road and Saddle Road belonged to Trinidad's planter class and then to its club class. Washington is now spending more than half a billion U.S. dollars to turn it into one of the most heavily engineered buildings in the country.
NOV. 4, 2026
Foreign Affairs · Analysis
We helped build the International Criminal Court. Now we are tearing at the fabric of our own legacy
Trinidad and Tobago did not merely endorse the International Criminal Court. Through Arthur N. R. Robinson, it helped bring the Court into existence. The abstention of 2 November is therefore more than a diplomatic vote: it asks whether the country is retreating from principles it helped establish.
NOV. 3, 2026