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11/09/2026

11/09/2026

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31/08/2026

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30/08/2026

"It was like a game to me to see how it working."

Richard Trancoso was around 15 when his father's home in Upper Cumaca became a solar pilot project in 2004, one of the first in their off-grid community to have power at all. For a decade, it worked. Then the batteries died, and there was no way to replace them.

Richard is still raising his own children in Upper Cumaca today, without power. This is one story from our full investigation into why solar remains out of reach for so many in Trinidad and Tobago.

See the link to the full story in the captions.

30/08/2026

Trinidad and Tobago has pledged 30% renewable power by 2030. But for ordinary families, the sun still isn't paying the bills.
In our latest investigation, we go from off-grid communities in Cumaca still living without power, to a solar installer turning away customers he can't in good conscience serve, to the country's flagship 92MW solar farm, currently sitting offline.
Two ministers were sent detailed questions weeks ago. Neither has responded.
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This story was produced with the support of the Caribbean Energy Transition Reporting Initiative (CETRI). Trinidad and Tobago sits 11 degrees north of the

26/08/2026

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23/08/2026

They live beside a water treatment plant that supplies over 180,000 people. They still don't have running water.

In Part Two of Living in the Dark, residents of North Oropouche WASA Road describe being told, years ago, that their water connection was approved. Nothing came.

We traced their fight back to 2011, and asked four officials why. Only one responded.

This series is sponsored by Solar NRG TT.

20/08/2026

For more than a decade, residents of North Oropouche WASA Road, Valencia have been asking for one thing: light.
In Part One of our exclusive series, residents open up about raising children by candlelight, the quotation they could never afford, and what it costs them every month just to keep a generator running.
This is Living in the Dark.
This series is sponsored by Solar NRG TT.

19/08/2026

Just minutes from the Valencia Old Road, but living without electricity, and without a pipe-borne water supply, despite a major water treatment plant sitting right in their community.
This is North Oropouche WASA Road, Valencia.
Residents are speaking out. Their story, coming soon, only on News19TT.
This series is sponsored by Solar NRG TT- Let The Sun And Wind Pay Your T&Tec Bill! Call Val Ramsingh at 272-8462 for your quote today!

11/08/2026

They asked when the garbage truck was coming back. They're still waiting.
In Part Two of The Forgotten Village of Cumaca, residents describe a growing garbage pile they say is being burned, roads too damaged for basic services to reach them, and years of complaints that have gone nowhere.
News19TT reached out to both WASA and the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation for answers. Neither responded by publication.
Read the full story here: https://news19tt.com/cumaca-forgotten-village-part-two/