What is Trinidad Express?
The Trinidad Express is a daily newspaper published in Port of Spain. Its own About page names the publisher as “Caribbean Communications Network (CCN)” and states that the paper is “now owned by its holding company, Caribbean Communications Network (CCN)”.[1]
The same group holds a television concession. The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago lists “C.C.N. Television Limited” as the concessionaire operating “CCNTV6” on “VHF 6, UHF 18, 19”.[4] The television station's own About page identifies its owner as Caribbean Communications Network and gives its address as 33-35 Independence Square, Port of Spain.[5]
Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index entry for the country, names “the Trinidad & Tobago Express” alongside the Trinidad Guardian as “the main ones” among the country's media outlets.[6] That is the monitoring body's characterisation, quoted and attributed.
What does Trinidad Express cover?
The paper's own About page lists its content as News in Local, Regional and World editions, Sports in the same three divisions, Business, Features and Opinion.[1] The sports section on trinidadexpress.com is organised the same way, into Local, Regional and World sub-sections.[2]
The sport covered in that section runs to football, cricket, darts and athletics, with domestic competition prominent. Items carried in September 2026 included a report on the national football set-up ahead of a match against Haiti, a secondary-school football result headlined “Pres Chaguanas trounce Gasparillo Sec 6-0”, and a report headlined “FC Maloney reclaim EFA crown” on a local championship decided after a goalless draw.[2]
The paper's sport archive also carries the country's largest football story. Its report headlined “‘SOCA WARRIORS' OUT” records the 0-0 draw with Sweden in Dortmund, Germany, on 10 June 2006, and names England and Paraguay as the other teams in the group.[3]
How large is Trinidad Express's audience?
No audited readership currency for the Trinidad and Tobago newspaper market could be retrieved for this page. The figures below are the newspaper's own and are reported as its claims.
The About page states “an average daily readership of over 75,000, which represents over 40% of the reading population of Trinidad and Tobago”, and claims for its Sunday edition the “highest recorded sales in the country for the past five years”.[1] The page as retrieved gives no measurement period, no measuring body and no date for either figure, and the second is a claim of rank rather than a measured number.[1]
The group's television station makes a separate and equally unaudited claim on its own About page: “We have topped the share of the national viewing audience in 15 surveys conducted over the last four years”, without naming the surveys or dating them.[5] Reporters Without Borders places the country at rank 32 of 180 with a score of 74.70 in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index, which is an index position rather than an audience measure.[6]
Since when has Trinidad Express existed?
The founding date is the publisher's own claim. The newspaper's About page gives 6 June 1967.[1] No second, independent source giving that date could be retrieved for this page, so it is carried as the paper's own account rather than adopted.
The group around it is datable in one respect: the television station's site carries a footer reading “1991 - 2026 Caribbean Communications Network”, and the station's own About page states that “CCN TV6 began broadcasting on September 15th, 1991 with viewing hours from 6:00 to 10:00p.m. daily”.[5] That dates the broadcast arm, not the newspaper.
The regulator's listing records the current position rather than a history: C.C.N. Television Limited holds the free-to-air concession operating CCNTV6.[4] Reporters Without Borders dates the country's oldest newspaper to 1917 and names the Express as a main outlet without giving it a founding year.[6]
Why does Trinidad Express matter in Trinidad and Tobago's sport?
It matters first because a named monitoring body identifies it as one of two principal titles in the country. Reporters Without Borders names the Trinidad Guardian and “the Trinidad & Tobago Express” as “the main ones” among the country's outlets in its 2026 Index entry.[6]
It matters second because its sports desk is structured for domestic coverage: Local sits alongside Regional and World as a standing sub-section, and the September 2026 headlines in it were school football, a local club championship and the national team.[2][1]
It matters third because the same group holds one of the country's small number of free-to-air television concessions, so its sport journalism has a broadcast outlet as well as a printed one.[4][5] And its archive is part of the record: the paper's own report is the dated source used on this site for the 0-0 draw with Sweden in Dortmund on 10 June 2006.[3]
References
- Trinidad Express — About (publisher Caribbean Communications Network; founding 6 June 1967; readership and Sunday sales claims; sections). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Trinidad Express — Sports section (Local, Regional and World sub-sections; headlines of September 2026). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Trinidad Express — ‘SOCA WARRIORS' OUT (0-0 with Sweden in Dortmund on 10 June 2006). 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.
- CCN TV6 — About (launch on 15 September 1991; owner Caribbean Communications Network; transmission and audience claims). 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.