Trinidad & Tobago
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- August 1, 1976
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and House of Representatives
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, High Court of Justice; the highest court of appeal is the Privy Council of London.
RELIGIONS
26% Catholics; 22% Hindus; 7.8% Anglicans; 6% Muslims, other
From the country
NOVEMBER 13, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: CHARFORD COURT MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2009 OXFORD STREET MURDER
A Charford Court man has been convicted of the 2009 murder of Michael “Boy Boy” Mader in Port of Spain.
- OCTOBER 10, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
CARIBBEAN CHURCH APPEALS FOR MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
Leela Ramdeen, consultant with the Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) in Trinidad & Tobago writes: The World Day against the Death Penalty will be observed on Thursday October 10. The 2024 Theme is: The Death Penalty protects no one. Abolish it
MARCH 11, 2024Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: EIGHT FORMER DEATH ROW INMATES IMMEDIATELY RELEASED
Eight former death row inmates in Trinidad and Tobago have been released after 22 years’ imprisonment, DSC reported on March 4, 2024.
- NOVEMBER 20, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: LONGEST SERVING DEATH ROW PRISONER RELEASED BY HIGH COURT
On 14 November 2023, Wenceslaus James, the longest serving death row inmate in the country, was released by order of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago. Convicted for murder in 1996, Wenceslaus received the mandatory death sentence for the offence.
AUGUST 18, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: FOUR CONVICTED KILLERS REMOVED FROM DEATH ROW
Four convicted killers housed in the condemned section of the Port of Spain prison at Frederick Street for decades have had their death sentences vacated
JULY 25, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2011 MURDER
Trinity Lewis, also known as "Prack," on July 22, 2023 was sentenced to hang by Justice Kathy Ann Waterman-Latchoo after she found him guilty of murdering Mark Anthony Songui on December 1, 2011, at Upper First Trace, Maingot Road, Tunapuna.
FEBRUARY 8, 2023Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 2-YEAR-OLD SON
A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to death in Trinidad and Tobago for fatally beating his two-year-old son in 2008.
- JULY 27, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF 9-MONTH-OLD STEPSON
A Trinidad man has been found guilty of murder and his former common-law wife guilty of manslaughter over the death of his nine-month-old stepson, who was beaten to death in 2008, The Guardian (TT) reported on July 26, 2022.
JUNE 6, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The High Court of Trinidad and Tobago on 2 June 2022 sentenced to death two brothers after they were both found guilty of murdering a man and attempting to kill the victim’s brother and cousin 12 years ago.
MAY 18, 2022Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: PRIVY COUNCIL RULES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY CONSTITUTIONAL
The Privy Council has ruled that the mandatory sentence of death for murder in Trinidad and Tobago is constitutional, and only Parliament can reform and update the laws.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING TEENAGERS
A Tobago man on 28 July 2021 was sentenced to hang for the 2009 double murder of two teenage boys whose bodies were found close to each other at French Fort, Scarborough.
DECEMBER 18, 2019Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: 5 MEN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR MURDER
Five death sentences were read out on 17 December 2019 to the five men convicted of the murder of businessman Dr Eddie Koury in September 2005.