An appeals court in the Caribbean Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has restored a previous law making consensual homosexual acts illegal. In restoring the law, the court tempered it by reducing the maximum sentence from 25 years to five years. The three-judge appeals court panel overturned a 2018 High Court ruling that had deemed portions of the country’s Sexual Offences Act to be unconstitutional.

Trinidad And Tobago Restores Law Making Homosexual Acts a Crime

Judges reasoned that changing the law is the job of the island nation’s legislature, not its judiciary.