Trinidad and Tobago

News coverage about Trinidad and Tobago accounts for 0.124% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is up 34.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.39 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 6.6 standard deviations above the trailing average.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.124%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+34.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.39
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Trinidad and Tobago coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.12% on 2026-10-040.000.100.20Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Trinidad and Tobago coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.39 on 2026-10-04+2.50-2.5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (3/day latest)

Protest events located in Trinidad and Tobago: 21 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-09-260.002.55.0Jul 11Jul 20Aug 3Aug 31Sep 16Sep 26

Diplomacy (9/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Trinidad and Tobago: 91 days, latest 9.00 on 2026-10-040.00100200Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Trinidad and Tobago: 81 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 21Aug 4Aug 20Sep 6Sep 21Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Trinidad and Tobago, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 34% of the coverage about Trinidad and Tobago came from outlets based in Trinidad and Tobago — the rest was written from abroad (1,353 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Trinidad and Tobago from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 57.14 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Trinidad and Tobago produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Diego Martin (1)
  • Naparima (1)
  • Republic Bank (1)
  • Chaguanas (1)
  • Couva (1)
  • West Indies (1)
  • Point Lisas (1)

Places named in coverage about Trinidad and Tobago on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Trinidad and Tobago

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$25.9B
World Bank, 2025
Population
1.4M
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.9%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
576
originating from Trinidad and Tobago
Refugees hosted
1,877
from other countries
Asylum seekers
23,369
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Coverage share measures articles published by Trinidad and Tobago-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).