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
- OCTOBER 25, 2009Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Trinidad & Tobago Express reported that Garvin "Beam" Sookram and Keron "Bellies" Lopez were sentenced to hang in March for the July 28, 2004 murders of Kerwin Hinds and Kerwin Cyrus.
- OCTOBER 11, 2009Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Anton Bruce, 23, was sentenced to death for murdering his infant step daughter in Trinidad & Tobago.
- JULY 31, 2009Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: FIRST EXECUTION IN TEN YEARS THREATENED
Amnesty International is calling on the authorities in Trinidad and Tobago not to execute a man who is accused of killing his sister-in-law.
- MARCH 13, 2009Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Justice Malcolm Holdip...
in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Justice Malcolm Holdip sentenced Ogee Tempro and Kevin Patrick to death.
- 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 PENALTYTRINIDAD 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 PENALTYTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. FINGERPRINT LEADS TO DEATH SENTENCE
a 24 year old man in Trinidad, who was identified by a fingerprint