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At the T&T Chamber’s Champions of Business Awards 2026 on Wednesday night at Hyatt Regency, the recipients were, from left, Exporter of the Year, Control Technologies’ Kenny Lue Chee Lip;  Spirit of Excellence, Cedros Bay CEO Gabrielle Agostini; Green Agenda Award, Renewable Power Caribbean chief sustainability officer Steffy Heera; Inductee Hall of Fame Ramdoolarie Maharaj (posthumously), collected by her grandaughter director Aruna Maharaj;  Business Hall of Fame inductee, Ramps Logistics’ Ramnarine Rampersad; Entrepreneurship Award, Just Kids Emergency Medical’s Dr Paula Robertson; Innovation Award, ProtofabTT engineer and founder Ancel Bhagwandeen; Caribbean Export Services of the year Media Insite founder and CEO Allison Dumas; SME Award, Small Business Category Chambers Media Solutions’ Tyneille Clarke; and SME Medium Category, GIScad’s Desmond Dougall.

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Barrackpore West Secondary players and technical staff celebrate their clean sweep of the Trinidad and Tobago Secondary Schools Volleyball League South Zone Under-15, U-17 and Open Division titles along with members of their U-15 Girls teams who placed second in their final to Holy Faith Convent (Couva) at the National Cycling Centre in Balmain, Couva, on Friday.

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