SINCE 2013 some 85 people were charged by the police in the law-courts for trafficking in persons, active prosecutions remain against only five people. This was revealed in the 2024 Annual Report on Trafficking in Persons in Trinidad and Tobago, which was laid in the Senate on November 26 alongside the similar report for 2023.

Human trafficking is the use of force or fraud to exploit a victim, often by promising them a legitimate job but only for them to end up in forced prostitution or labour.

The 2024 report said nine persons were charged in 2024 – two male Trinidadians, four female Venezuelans, one Jamaican male, one Colombian male and one Dominican Republic female.