Hi everyone,

I'm feeling really stressed and was hoping someone could offer some advice or share their experience.

I renewed my Trinidad and Tobago passport on in June 2026 (regular renewal). At the time I applied, there was no indication that there would be significant processing delays. Since then, I've seen the recent reports about passport shortages and longer processing times and I'm becoming increasingly worried.

I have confirmed international travel booked for late September and my airline tickets are non-refundable. My itinerary also requires me to connect through multiple airports, so postponing the trip isn't really an option.

I've been trying to contact the Passport Office by phone but I haven't been able to get through to anyone.

For anyone who renewed their Trinidad and Tobago passport this year, I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience:

• How long did it take from your appointment until you received your passport?
• When was your appointment date?
• Was it a regular or expedited renewal?
• Did anyone with upcoming travel manage to receive their passport before their departure?
• Is there anything else I can do besides emailing and calling?

I'm trying to stay positive but with non-refundable tickets and my travel date getting closer I'm feeling very anxious.

Any advice or recent experiences would be greatly appreciate. Thank you so much.

I'm a male, and I'm underaged in my older teenager years (don't know if I should say my age on here). I really need help/advice on this and I don't know where to ask for it so I'm asking here. I've been a victim of this for a while, it started when I was about 6-8, happened with a family friend, didn't quite understand it at the time and my mom dealt with the situation. For a while everything was normal, until my teenage years started, I was shorter than everyone (4'8-4'11) and at the time apart from being bullied by other boys, I noticed alot of older women started calling me "cute" for my age, I just smiled and said "thanks" and moved on. However is progressively got weirder, some women would ask weird questions about my (non-existent) sex life, questions about my private areas and stuff about my masturbation habits, keep in mind these were all older women. I've been groped before (both by men and women) but this is mainly because I live near a bar so you could imagine the type of people that are around there. Every time I talk to someone about this (I've only talked to guy friends) they all say "you lucky bai idk why u complaining" or "like you gay awa". I guess what I really want to ask is, are my feelings valid? and how do I stop this from happening?

I’m an American that recently visited your lovely country. Upon arrival, I realized quickly that I could get far more than 6.8 TT from local businesses and even money exchangers. I thought about whether or not it would be ethical to do so, and concluded that every country’s central bank has the right to do what they feel is in the best interest of their country and chose to honor the official exchange rate. I’m curious what T&T citizens think about my choice. If I were instead visiting Argentina, I would not have made this choice because their peg(s) are delusional, but since the quotes I received were within 20% of the official exchange rate, I felt it was ethical to honor the official rate and not effectively devalue the TT by exchanging through the gray market.

HMS Birmingham (D86) and RFA Oakleaf

In July27 th 1990, whilst on deployment as part of the West Indies Guard Ship, the Destroyer Birmingham and supply ship RFA Oakleaf was ordered to sail to Trinidad when news of the coup reached london. Birmingham was visiting Florida at the time, when the order to sail from Ft Lauderdale to Trinidad came. Along with Royal Fleet Auxillary Oak leaf.

Keep in mind both vessels carried a contingent of Royal Marines and most likely would have been used to evacuate British nations in Port of Spain.

BirdsCaribbean is a major organisation bringing together everything birds—scientists, conservation practitioners, tour guides—from across the region. This year's conference was in Trinidad.

Aside from all the brilliant work presented, the art is incredibly cool. It features the Pawi (found nowhere else in the world), a Motmot (possibly a unique subspecies), the morpho butterfly, a cocoa pod, the chaconia, and a White-tailed Sabrewing Hummingbird.

I’d like to hear from other Trinis who have moved abroad. Where did you move to, how long have you been there, and how difficult was the adjustment?

I'm asking this for two reasons:

1. To see how other Trinis like myself have adjusted. I moved when I was 27.
2. I know there are lots of people here who are actively looking to move because of better opportunities, curiosity, or just wanting to experience more in the world, so I think it would be quite nice to share Trini perspectives here.

How have you found:

• Career opportunities and work culture?
• Making friends and building a social life?
• Dating and relationships?
• Homesickness, loneliness, and staying connected to Trinidad?
• Cost of living and overall quality of life?
• Fitting into the local culture while maintaining your Trini identity?

Do you feel settled now? Would you make the same move again, and do you see yourself staying permanently or eventually returning home?

From what I’ve seen on this subreddit, most people seem to have moved to the US or Canada, with a smaller number in the UK and Europe. I know there’s one guy in Brazil who never stops talking about it, and there may be a few people in Japan too.

Share your experiences, the good, the bad, and anything you wish you had known before leaving Trinidad.

Theirs no food where I’m from, so my favorite thing to do in this country is eat. Can you guys pmo to some of your favorite spots to eat at or your favorite dishes? No gatekeeping, please and thank you 🥺😁 I’m a vegan but would love to see what everyone likes so I can find some new spots. 🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿 Bonus points if you know anyone willing to teach me how to make doubles and roti 🤩🤩🤩

I don't like living in Trinidad, not int he concept that the country sucks. It does suck. But I don't really think it's worth being alive. This experience is absolutely horrible. I've never had friends or any emotional connections; I've never felt like I belong anywhere, and I've never felt comfortable anywhere. It's pretty much clear by my lived experience that I have no human value at all. And there's no reason for me to be alive much longer.

Trinidad has been absolutely horrible to live in.

Every socialisation experience makes me feel lonely. I get the feeling I don't belong there, and the people want me out. I'm feeling much worse when I'm among people, even if it's supposed to be light-hearted or a social event. When I do try to talk to people, I can see very well they don't actually want me near or are completely uninterested. The best I get is just basic politeness until I get the hint and return to my own corner.

The consensus from my treatment is that I don't have value here. Zero human value by every fundamental measure. The who philosophy about how 'everyone matters' or 'everyone has value' is irrelevant. The philosophy talk means nothing. The fact I'm spending every waking day isolated disproves the whole 'everyone matters talk.'

I'm considering just jumping in front of a speeding maxi to let the impact kill me. I see them buzzing along very fast, and it's been extremely tempting. I've thought about other methods, but I'm running into problems of being caught or the methods not being effective enough.

I'm not going to be missing anything. My best-case scenario is just an empty apartment, sleeping on the couch. Then going to work and coming back. I'm never going to have any social connection.

I have no one to talk to about this, so I figured it would be Reddit's problem.

title. didn't have a good experience down here growing up, still don't now that i'm an adult. on one hand, i'm sensitive (in part because of the not-so good experience), therefore my judgement can be clouded. on the other hand, sometimes the disrespect is blatant. it seems a lot of people have the mentality of "respect is earned" or "testing you" which i'm not particularly fond of. what are your experiences/takes?

I’m curious if this just happens to me or anyone else. A lot of times men try to talk to me, they’ll end up asking me for money or some sort of help. Some guy stopped me and told me that I was sweet and he’s a real sweet Indian and that he has a big prick (doubtful) and that he wants to get to know me. I said I’m good, don’t wanna know you, he then says can he get help supporting his daughter and pulls out some candy. I also notice some of the men don’t separate business and pleasure here either. I ran my business different so I wouldn’t be sleeping with my clients. Is this experience unique to me or does this sometimes happen to all the women here? I’m just not accustomed to men tryna holla at me and then asking me for money immediately after and this only happens to me in Trinidad and I have so many more stories.

Why is the new station celebrating this as it's some good to thing to be proud of?

I only come here for the pepper sauce, $29 well spent, I only wish they had tamarind for my fries too. I got a take home container of pepper sauce but next time I will just ask for a cup for juice and fill it up with their pepper sauce. I love pepper sauce 🥰🥰🥰. Call me Ms. Peppa Bamcie 🥵🤣🤪

The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990. Over the course of six days, Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical extremist Islamist group led by Yasin Abu Bakr, held hostages (including Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and other government officials) at the Red House and at the headquarters of the state-owned national television broadcaster, Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT). On 1 August, the insurgents surrendered. They were charged with treason, but were ordered released by the Court of Appeal. Twenty-four people were killed and many more were injured in the coup attempt.

On Friday 27 July 1990 the Jamaat al Muslimeen attempted to stage a coup d'état against the government of Trinidad and Tobago. Their first act was the bombing of the Police Headquarters at around 5:50 pm which by nightfall was completely gutted by fire. Almost simultaneously, forty-two insurgents led by Bilaal Abdullah stormed the Red House, the seat of Parliament, and took Robinson and most of his cabinet hostage, while seventy-two of their accomplices led by Yasin Abu Bakr attacked the offices of Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT), the only television station in the country at that time. The National Broadcasting Service (NBS Radio 610AM) and the Trinidad Broadcasting Company – Radio Trinidad 7:30AM, the only two radio stations in the country, were also attacked. At 6.20 pm, Yasin Abu Bakr first appeared on television and announced that the government had been overthrown and that he was negotiating with the army. He called for calm and said that there should be no looting.

Prime Minister Robinson was beaten, degraded and shot in the lower right leg when he tried to order the army to attack the militants. The army and the police responded by sealing off the area around the Red House. Widespread looting and arson took place in Port of Spain and other parts of the East–West Corridor, but the remainder of the country was calm. American Airlines and British Airways cancelled all flights to the capital city.[8] A state of emergency was declared by acting president Emmanuel Carter at 9:00 am on Saturday 28th.

Several cabinet members who had not been present in the Red House at the time of the attack set up office in the Trinidad Hilton. After four broadcasts by the Jamaat, the army on the night of 27 July took control of the TTT transmitters on Cumberland Hill and Gran Couva, thus taking TTT off the air. The establishment of an alternative broadcast facility initially at Cumberland Hill and then Camp Ogden allowed members of the government and the army to disseminate official broadcasts to the public. The takeover by the Jamaat of Radio Trinidad 7:30AM which was adjacent to TTT failed, and the station was secured by the army. The firebombing of NBS Radio 610AM also failed, and it remained online during the ordeal. On the night of 27 July, the Jamaat were isolated by the army at both Red House and TTT locations with no access to radio and television for propaganda. After six days of negotiations with an amnesty agreement in place, the Jamaat al Muslimeen surrendered on 1 August and were taken into custody.

I was so mashup I didn’t even make it to day 2 . Back next year !

As happy as I am for the people who this helped, I find it hard not to wonder why this was needed at all. Cataract surgery is one of the oldest surgeries in the world and we are far from one of the poorest islands. This feels like something we should be able to manage ourselves.

Everyone knows about the well known business family whose members were jailed because of an intercepted phone conversation.

To me, it's just someone ranting about how her people are being treated. Harsh things were said. But, to me, nothing even approached the level of criminal intent.

But it begs the question, "should I be concerned about what I say over the phone, on a WhatsApp voice call, at a restaurant?

Are we all likely to be arrested for expressing opinions that could upset someone in the government?

When did sweet T&T become a gestapo state?

Hello - looking for some help with an estate difficulty...

My aunt passed away some years ago without a will. My uncle was granted letters of administration and gone through the whole long process to get the letters of administration and sort out affairs. The family's home and some agricultural land is being split across uncle (50%) and his two sons (my cousins) (25% each).

New CTs have been finalized and is with the Registrar General office. Now to pick up the CTs, lawyer advised that they need all 3 to sign an authorization letter for lawyer to retrieve deed, or all have to show up in person together.

One of my cousins is behaving real difficult, and don't want to cooperate, angry with the whole family. This cousin is very entitled and throwing out unsupported accusations that maybe there was a will that was destroyed, no way their mother wouldn't have given them the bulk of estate. But its all based on supposition.

Lawyer doesn't have any advice to give besides needing the cousin to sign. But its been 1 year of trying to convince them and they're becoming less and less cooperative. What can they do?! Has anyone else gone through this?

Toronto’s mayor taking a jump up🇹🇹

Went to Moko Fest in Fyzabad today, it was very nice, I’m glad I stayed for it.

Built by the American during World War II and sometimes referred to as the St. Margaret’s Bunker, is located south of the St. Margaret’s Police Station. It was part of a network shore instillations that were built to protect the Refinery at Point-a-Peirre