Tagged: Trinidad & Tobago

2nd August 2019

Crime and Border Security to the Fore as Trinidad Grapples with a spate of Murders

The archipelagic Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago is no stranger to high crime rates and incidents of violent crime. However, even by the standards of this country of 1.3 million, inured to violence...

Opinion / Caribbean

27th July 2019

27 July 1990: Trinidad’s Brush with Violent Jihad

On Friday, July 27, 1990, Trinidad experienced its own day of infamy when a radical Afro-Trinidadian Islamist group, the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, led by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, an Afro-Trinidadian convert to Islam previously known as...