What is Trinidad and Tobago Guardian?
The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is a daily newspaper published in Port of Spain by Guardian Media Limited. The company's own About Us page states that “ANSA McAl is the majority shareholder of publicly traded Guardian Media Limited (GML)”, and describes a group that runs the Guardian daily newspaper, CNC3 television and the TBC Radio Network with six stations across Trinidad, Tobago and Guyana.[2]
That listing is verifiable against the exchange. The Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange carries Guardian Media Limited under the symbol GML, with 40,000,000 issued shares and a financial year ending 31 December, and its own site gives the company's website as guardian.co.tt.[5] The exchange's trading tables recorded GML trading on 22 September 2026.[6]
The group's broadcast arm is licensed separately. The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago lists Guardian Media Limited as the holder of the free-to-air television concession operating CNC3 on “VHF 12, UHF 14, 22”.[7] The newspaper's own site describes the title as “the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017”, a description the page attributes to the publisher rather than to any outside body.[1]
What does Trinidad and Tobago Guardian cover?
Guardian Media describes itself in its own footer as a provider of “multimedia solutions and authoritative insight on news, politics, business, finance, sports, and current affairs”; that is the company's characterisation of its own output.[1]
The sport section on guardian.co.tt carries cricket, football, athletics, cycling and darts, mixing domestic competition with regional and international events. Headlines carried in the section in September 2026 included a preview of a Secondary Schools Football League fixture dated 23 September 2026, a report on the Women's UEFA Champions League dated 22 September 2026, and a report dated 21 September 2026 on a Trinidadian rider's placing in the under-23 time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.[3] The section also carries Caribbean Premier League cricket.[3]
The same newsroom feeds the group's television channel, which the company's own corporate page places alongside the newspaper and the TBC Radio Network within one group.[2]
How large is Trinidad and Tobago Guardian's audience?
No audited audience currency for the Trinidad and Tobago print or online market could be retrieved for this page, so the figures here are the publisher's own and are reported as such.
Guardian Media's About Us page states that the Guardian's digital presence generates “over one million monthly visits” to its website, and that the group's radio network reaches “over 200 thousand regular listeners on air and online”.[2] Neither figure carries a measurement period, a measuring body or a date on the page as retrieved, and neither is an audited circulation or readership figure.[2]
Reporters Without Borders places Trinidad and Tobago at rank 32 of 180 with a score of 74.70 in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index, and states that “Media pluralism is strong with multiple media outlets expressing a multitude of viewpoints, the main ones being the Trinidad Guardian, the oldest newspaper in the country created in 1917, and the Trinidad & Tobago Express…”.[4] That is a statement about standing rather than a measured audience figure.
Since when has Trinidad and Tobago Guardian existed?
The founding date on this page is the publisher's own claim, and it is attributed rather than adopted. Guardian Media's About Us page states that the newspaper “started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917”.[2] The newspaper's site separately describes the title as having marked “its centenary in 2017”, which is consistent with that year.[1]
An independent source carries the same year without the day: Reporters Without Borders describes the Trinidad Guardian as “the oldest newspaper in the country created in 1917”.[4] The two accounts agree on 1917; only the publisher gives the day and month.
The corporate vehicle is younger than the title, and the group's shape has changed with it. The exchange lists Guardian Media Limited as an active listed company with a 31 December financial year end.[5][6] The television concession the company holds is recorded by the regulator as operating under the CNC3 name rather than the newspaper's own.[7]
Why does Trinidad and Tobago Guardian matter in Trinidad and Tobago's sport?
It matters first because it is one of two titles a named monitoring body identifies as a principal outlet in the country. Reporters Without Borders names the Trinidad Guardian and the Trinidad & Tobago Express as “the main ones” among the country's media outlets in its 2026 Index entry.[4]
It matters second because the sport desk publishes through the domestic season. The section's September 2026 headlines run from secondary-school football to the Caribbean Premier League and to cycling at the UCI Road World Championships, which is a domestic-to-international range in a single section.[3]
It matters third because the newspaper sits inside a group that also holds a television concession, so the same newsroom's sport reporting reaches a free-to-air audience. The regulator records Guardian Media Limited as the concessionaire operating CNC3.[7] Reporters Without Borders adds a caution that belongs with any account of the market: it states that “During election periods, media outlets are pressured to align with political interests, especially since political parties are major buyers of advertising”.[4]
References
- Trinidad and Tobago Guardian — guardian.co.tt home page (masthead, centenary description, footer). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Guardian Media Limited — About Us (ANSA McAl majority shareholder; Trinidad Guardian from Sunday 2 September 1917; CNC3 and TBC Radio; audience claims). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Trinidad and Tobago Guardian — Sport section (headlines of 21, 22 and 23 September 2026). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Reporters Without Borders — 2026 World Press Freedom Index, Trinidad and Tobago (rank 32 of 180; score 74.70; media landscape and political context). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange — Guardian Media Limited (GML): issued share capital, financial year end, company website. Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange — market page showing GML trading on 22 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago — Television Broadcasters (free-to-air concessionaires and the companies holding them). Accessed 2026-09-23.