In 1955 the paper was rebranded as the Trinidad Chronicle and Port of Spain Gazette, but after accumulating substantial losses it folded in 1959, ending its 134-year run.

[1][fn 1] The newspaper began publication on 21 September 1825 and carried government advertising and announcements which provided it with financial stability[1] until 1833 when this role was taken over by the Trinidad Royal Gazette[7]: 62–64  (later renamed the Colonial Observer and Trinidad Gazette), a new paper launched in 1832 by Port of Spain grocer Young Anderson to represent the positions of antislavery activists.

Joseph resigned as editor after backlash triggered by his thinly-disguised portrayals of prominent members of the community in his novel Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole.

[2]: 55  Between January 1881 and October 1884 Philip Rostant, a noted reformer, served as editor of the Gazette, before leaving to launch a rival paper, Public Opinion.

[5] In 1955 the paper was sold to a consortium consisting of businessman George de Nobriga; Sir Harold Robinson, a "sugar baron"; Charles Bishe, director of Gordon Grant and Company; and Allan Storey.

[4]: 167 [13]: 49–50 During the development of the labour movement in the 1930s the Port of Spain Gazette took a pro-government and anti-labour position,[14]: 57  and was described as "representing the powerful French Creole planter class" during the second half of the 1930s.