The Latest Breaking News from Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago's centrist former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will return as leader of the Caribbean nation after her party's victory in Monday's parliamentary election, the electoral commission confirmed Tuesday.

Persad-Bissesar, 73, who was prime minister from 2010-2015, remains the only woman to ever have led the twin-island Caribbean nation

Legislation was repealed in 2018 but Caribbean country’s supreme court last week recriminalised the act after appeal

Travellers from country now need visas with decision reportedly made in response to rising asylum claims

Trinidad and Tobago and its neighbors mix music genres in a fast-growing transatlantic artistic exchange

Soca veterans join forces with Afrobeats stars as the diaspora strengthens ties with the motherland. Plus, Angela Davis heads to London

Caribbean country’s steel band competition, held this year amid escalating violence, celebrates an instrument born out of colonial resistance

For decades, the Trinidadian artist has used the folkloric imagery of his homeland to examine notions of identity. As a new exhibition of his work opens, the 91-year-old says he is too busy moving forward to look back

A state of emergency has been declared amid unprecedented gun violence, but no one in our stagnating government is taking responsibility