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
- FEBRUARY 13, 2009Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH
Marlon Peters, Ian Little, an auto body technician of South Oropouche, and David George Huggins, a labourer of Carlton Lane, San Fernando, were sentenced to death by Justice Herbert Volney in the San Fernando First Assize Court, Trinidad & Tobago.
- JANUARY 1, 2009Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
- AUGUST 20, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
the Trinidad and Tobago government says it will seek to amend existing legislation to make it easier to carry
the Trinidad and Tobago government says it will seek to amend existing legislation to make it easier to carry
- AUGUST 15, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: 52 ESCAPE DEATH ROW
fifty-two people in Trinidad & Tobago convicted of murder had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment after Justice Nolan Bereaux at the Port-of-Spain High Court ruled in favour of a Constitutional motion brought by the prisoners, that they be
- MARCH 31, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. TWO MEN TO HANG FOR MURDER
a Trinidad and Tobago judge sentenced two men to hang for the 2003 murder of
- MARCH 6, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: PRIVY COUNCIL ALLOWS APPEALS IN DEATH PENALTY CASE
the Privy Council in London allowed an appeal in a death penalty case referred to it from Trinidad and Tobago
- MARCH 5, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD: DEATH SENTENCE FOR ICE-PICK MURDER
Reed Richards, 35, was sentenced to death for the murder of 56 year old taxi-driver Roland Marshall, who was stabbed more than 40 times with an ice-pick.
- JANUARY 30, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. FINGERPRINT LEADS TO DEATH SENTENCE
a 24 year old man in Trinidad, who was identified by a fingerprint
- JANUARY 16, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
the death penalty is not the answer to crime and will not reduce criminal activity...
the death penalty is not the answer to crime and will not reduce criminal activity...
- JANUARY 16, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: RAMESH: PM'S HANGING PLAN A NATIONAL JOKE
Trinidad and Tobago’s Opposition Chief Whip Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj said "it is a national joke for the Prime Minister, in a situation where there is a ten per cent...
- JANUARY 15, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. HANGINGS MAY RESUME
The Patrick Manning government wants to use its new term in office to ensure
- JANUARY 1, 2008Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.
The sentence of death is the mandatory punishment for murder in Trinidad and Tobago.