The Express exists because a group of journalists lost their jobs. When foreign owners of the rival Guardian bought out the British-owned Daily Mirror in Trinidad, the displaced staff enlisted leading local businessmen and put out their first paper on 6 June 1967, with the stated commitment to create a locally owned press. The popular expectation was that it would not last three months. It became the country's second-oldest daily and now claims more than 45 per cent of print advertising and 53 per cent of readership. Its holding company, Caribbean Communications Network, grew out of the newspaper itself and now also owns CCN TV6, the country's leading television station, plus radio stations and stakes in other Caribbean media houses. CCN merged with the Barbados Nation Corporation on 1 January 2006 to form ONE Caribbean Media Limited. The website launched in 1997. Today, Trinidad and Tobago Express is mainly focused on national politics and government, crime and security, courts, business, regional Caribbean affairs, letters and editorials, and sport, published daily in print with Saturday and Sunday editions, from their base in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. One interesting fact: The paper was founded by journalists who had been displaced when a foreign buyer took over their newspaper. The company they built now owns the leading television station, radio stations across the country, and stakes in media houses around the Caribbean.