The Latest Breaking News from Trinidad

Monique Roffey, the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, on the lit-boom that’s happening on the Caribbean island

Editorial: The latest shortlist for the Women’s prize for fiction is a show of strength for a small island

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the reverberations of the coronavirus continue to take toll on people’s livelihoods, income and food security in the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean as food costs rise, hunger deepens and tourism, a major economic driver, continues to suffer.

An inspiration for Balenciaga and Dior, the flamboyant fabrics of the Trinidad-born artist brought Caribbean colour into 50s British households

Ex-Gateshead Thunder rugby star Damian Martinez is now tackling a new career as a social worker

West Indies’ young wicketkeeper loves the Barmy Army, looks up to Ben Foakes and reveals his captain has a remote-controlled rat

A young couple are confronted by life’s duties in a vivid debut about romance and loss in the Caribbean

Capitalism and Slavery, by the future first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago Eric Williams, argues that the abolition of slavery was motivated by economic, not moral, concerns

Rescuers in Trinidad and Tobago recovered the bodies of three welders, the country's state energy company said on Monday, four days after the workers were sucked into an underwater 30-inch (76-cm) U-shaped pipeline.

Cricketer whose prodigiously talented spin bowling helped West Indies to their first ever Test match win in England

The baby’s mother was injured after the Trinidad and Tobago coast guard shot at the boat, later saying it fired in ‘self defence’