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'Home Office lost my passport twice and then tried to tell me I didn't belong here'

Emunah Baht Gavriel came to England in 1979, aged 21, from Trinidad and Tobago and, like so many others from the Caribbean, made a life for herself and helped build the country back up - only to feel betrayed

Daily Mirror

Why Big Oil loves renewable energy

Wind and solar can only output so much. Fossil fuels often fill a gap better suited for nuclear power

Salon

Debut novel 'The God of Good Looks' adds to growing canon of Caribbean literature

A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.

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‘It’s a forever pain, an unfathomable pain’: families remember Trinidad’s femicide victims

Andrea Bharratt, Ashanti Riley, Sharday Emmanuel and Teri Gomez are just a few of the many women missing or murdered on the island in recent years. Their loved ones tell their stories

The Guardian - UK

The Caribbean island of Trinidad grapples with a ‘national crisis’ of violence

Killings of women and girls in Trinidad and Tobago have reached an all-time high, while police and politicians are failing to tackle rising crime rates

The Guardian - UK

Trinidad and Tobago: From the Caribbean to the caliphate

The twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago lies between the South American coast of Venezuela and the West Indies. Home to roughly 1.5 million inhabitants of African and Indian descent, the tiny Caribbean nation has one of the world’s highest volunteer rates for the Islamic State (IS) group. Between…

France 24

Shake your Sugar Bum Bum! The return of the classic film capturing calypso’s riotous brilliance

It is seen as the joyous, rum-soaked music of the carnival, but it is so much more than that – as One Hand Don’t Clap shows. We talk to the film’s star, the astonishing Calypso Rose, still thrilling crowds

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Anthony Antoine Joins KRIV Houston Evening Anchor Team

From Trinidad and Tobago, anchor previously worked in Richmond

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Great-grandmother on 'life-long dream' Caribbean cruise killed by reversing truck in Barbados

Recently-widowed Janet Purkess was on a Caribbean cruise hoping to fulfil her dream of visiting a friend in Trinidad when an unlicensed driver reversed into her in Barbados

Daily Mirror

‘Like a blocked gate I can’t climb over’: a Windrush victim’s DWP impasse

After 13 years of being shut out of the workplace due to documentation problems, Joseph Mowlah-Baksh was denied benefits – and left unaware of assistance programmes

The Guardian - UK

Trinidad and Tobago is failing children locked in Syrian camps – it must bring them home

During Covid, the Caribbean republic shut its borders, stranding citizens overseas; now it has left children vulnerable to illness, death and IS recruitment

The Guardian - UK

Trouble in paradise: corruption in the Caribbean has become normalised

The focus is often on rich countries when it comes to corruption initiatives but the situation is so embedded in these islands that it demands greater attention

The Guardian - UK

US, Qatar, Egypt Supply Europe’s LNG Demand

European imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) rose by 63 % in 2022, to compensate for the interruption of supplies through Russian gas pipelines. LNG imported by Europe increased by 66 bcm, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While the US supplied approximately two-thirds (43…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein review – lyrical Trinidadian saga

The spectres of war and social injustice hang over a community battling the inexorable forces of change

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‘I’m going to get a beating’ – artist Peter Doig on taking on Cézanne, Renoir, Monet and more

Once Europe’s most expensive living painter, Doig is feverishly trying to finish 10 new works that will hang alongside some old masters. No wonder he isn’t getting any sleep

The Guardian - UK

Kevin Jared Hosein: ‘The 1940s in Trinidad was like the wild west’

The teacher and writer on a golden age for Caribbean writers, editing in bed, and his encounter with VS Naipaul

Daily Record

Mum dies in sleep on wedding day leaving 10-year-old son stranded abroad

Nadia Joseph-Gosine passed away in her sleep on December 7 from liver disease hours before she was due to marry her partner of five years in Trinidad.

Daily Mirror

Tragic mum dies on morning of her wedding as son, 10, left stranded in Trinidad

Nadia Joseph-Gosine died in the early hours of her wedding day, leaving her 10-year-old son Emari stranded in Trinidad while her family try to raise the funds to bring him back

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British girl, 13, feared abducted on Caribbean island holiday after popping to shop

Delika White Lezama's distraught family say they are "beyond desperate" to find their beloved daughter, sister and niece, who was last seen walking along a street in Trinidad on December 17

The Guardian - UK

Black Stalin obituary

Calypsonian celebrated in his native Trinidad and Tobago who also won a global audience for his acerbic take on the issues of the day

Los Angeles Times

After disaster four years ago, U.S. men's soccer team aims to be World Cup spoiler

DOHA, Qatar — The soundtrack of the U.S. national team's failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup will always be Taylor Twellman's epic rant inside an ESPN studio in Bristol, Conn.

Reuters

Soccer-Ex-FIFA vice president Warner loses appeal against extradition from Trinidad

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner can be extradited from his homeland of Trinidad to the United States to face corruption charges, a London court said on Thursday.

Reuters

Five candidates nominated ahead of Nov. 20 election to replace ousted IDB president

Five countries - Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil and Chile - nominated candidates for president of the Inter-American Development Bank ahead of a Nov. 20 board election, the bank said on Saturday.

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Dana White’s Contender Series 56: Best photos

Check out these photos from Dana White's Contender Series 56 in Las Vegas.

Bangkok Post

War Elephants settle for third place

Thailand made up for their shock defeat to Malaysia by claiming the third place in the King's Cup after securing a 2-1 upset victory over higher-ranked Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday night.

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