Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago

Joined the Commonwealth: 31 August 1962

CPA Branch formed: 1 January 1944

Unicameral/Bicameral: Bicameral - House of Representatives (41), Senate (31)

Parliament/Legislature website: Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago

Number of Departmental/Ministry Oversight Committees: Currently 20.

Number of Joint Committees (if bicameral): 20

Names of House Management (such as Privileges or Procedure) Committees: Committee of Privileges of the House of Representatives; Standing Orders Committee of the House of Representatives; House Committee of the House of Representatives; Statutory Instruments Committee of the House of Representatives; Business Committee of the House of Representatives; Standing Finance Committee - House of Representatives; Business Committee of the Senate; Statutory Instruments of the Senate; Committee of Privileges of the Senate; Standing Orders Committee of the Senate; House Committee of the Senate

Standing Orders: House of Representatives, Senate

Constitution: click here 

Recent articles in The Parliamentarian:

• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue Two: 75th anniverary of the 'modern' Commonwealth - reflections from the Speaker of Trinidad and Tobago
• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue Two: CPA news: CPA Trinidad and Tobago Branch visit their parliamentary twinning partners at CPA Ontario Branch in Canada
• The Parliamentarian 2022 Issue Four: CPA news: 11th Commonwealth Youth Parliament in Trinidad and Tobago
• The Parliamentarian 2019 Issue Two - 'Commonwealth at 70: A Connected Commonwealth' - Senator Hon. Dennis Moses, Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs
  
• The Parliamentarian 2017 Issue Four - 'Parliamentarians with Disabilities' - Senator Ian Roach
• The Parliamentarian 2016 Issue Four - 'Trinidad and Tobago's role in Commonwealth Trade' - Senator Hon. Paula Gopee-Scoon
• The Parliamentarian 2015 Issue One - 'Strengthening Financial Security: Public Accounts' - Senator Hon. Raziah Ahmed

Recent CPA Programmatic Activities/News:

- In June 2025, the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago focused on legislative scrutiny and parliamentary strengthening for new and returning MPs at a CPA Post-Election Seminar in partnership with ParlAmericas. Click here to read more.

- In January 2025, the Clerk of the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago supported a CPA Democratic Benchmarks assessment for the Parliament of Jamaica to focus on parliamentary strengthening and reform. Click here to find out more

- In December 2024, the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians network held a joint Caribbean workshop on gender responsive Parliaments with ParlAmericas hosted by the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. Click here to read about the event

- The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Joint CPA Trinidad and Tobago Branch President, Hon. Bridgid Annisette-George together with a delegation from Trinidad and Tobago met with the CPA Secretary-General, Stephen Twigg during a visit to the UK Parliament from 11 to 14 July 2023. Click here to read about this visit.

- In November 2022, 52 young people from 31 Commonwealth jurisdictions took part in the 11th Commonwealth Youth Parliament (CYP) hosted by the Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago at The Red House, Port-of-Spain. To read about the event click here.

- The CPA Headquarters Secretariat partnered with the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago on 22, 24 February and 1 March 2021 to deliver a CPA Post-Election Seminar for members of the 12th Trinidad and Tobago Parliament. 

- Parliamentary staff from the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago have also contributed to CPA Post-Election Seminars in the following Commonwealth Legislatures in recent times:

• The Dominica House of Assembly;
• The Anguilla House of Assembly 

- On 25 November 2020, the Hon. Bridgid Annisette-George, MP, Speaker of the House of Representatives, was a panellist at the CPA Webinar for Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth: COVID-19 and Independent Parliaments, where discussions looked at the importance of maintaining parliamentary sovereignty and legislative supremacy in the light of the ongoing COVI-19 pandemic.