Editorial brief · 04
Policing, security and civil liberties
Security powers weighed against due process and the people they affect.
Operational powers such as closed areas, warrantless searches and permit regimes, examined alongside public safety.
The focus is on the people living and working under those powers: vendors, staff, residents and customers.
Reporting
10 pieces
Governance · Analysis · SEP. 26, 2026
Trinidad and Tobago is giving the State more power. Trust is the harder question.
Two Bills, considered within days of each other, would expand coercive authority and loosen constraints on public spending. The common question is who can stop the State when something goes wrong.
National Security · SEP. 23, 2026
The permit economy: what a closed area does to a block
Caribbean Affairs · SEP. 23, 2026
Extrajudicial at sea: 234 dead, and a region that will not say the word
National Security · SEP. 21, 2026
Special Operations Bill: Kamla says UNC areas will get “hard policing”
International · SEP. 24, 2025
Human rights are not defended selectively
International · OCT. 28, 2023
Gaza: the General Assembly calls for a truce
Press Freedom · JUN. 24, 2022
Shireen Abu Akleh: the evidence pointed to the soldiers' position
National Security · MAY 16, 2021
A public health emergency, enforced as a security one
Press Freedom · AUG. 28, 2020
A journalist disappeared in Thailand and surfaced in a Vietnamese prison
Press Freedom · MAY 1, 2020