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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Opinion

Jonathan Bhagan

Jonathan Bhagan

Theology of love and why I hate state-sponsored fireworks 

Hav­ing done writ­ten ad­vo­ca­cy for the re­duc­tion and elim­i­na­tion of fire­works be­fore, I will in­tro­duce the­o­log­i­cal con­cepts in­to the de­bate in a hy­per­bol­ic man­ner to stop my­self from be­ing bored and frus­trat­ed while writ­ing this piece. Let us start this col­umn by first delv­ing in­to the the­ol­o­gy of love.

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CoP assures firearm files safe after sprinkler rupture

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has re­as­sured the pub­lic that more than 55,000 firearm files re­main se­cure, fol­low­ing a rup­ture in the fire sup­pres­sion sys­tem at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port of Spain, on Mon­day.

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Tue Aug 19 2025
Environmental Management Authority (EMA) 2025 Vacation Internship Programme

Environmental Management Authority (EMA) 2025 Vacation Internship Programme

EMA completes Vacation Internship Programme

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has com­plet­ed its 2025 Va­ca­tion In­tern­ship Pro­gramme, which ran from June to Au­gust and en­gaged 13 uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents.

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Tue Aug 19 2025

14-year-old makes history in Great Race

The Carib Great Race 2025 will be re­mem­bered not on­ly for the roar of en­gines and the thrill of com­pe­ti­tion, but for the ex­tra­or­di­nary feat of a young com­peti­tor who etched his name in­to the record books.

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Tue Aug 19 2025

Two Venezuelans charged with robbery, assault

Two Venezue­lan na­tion­als have been de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore a High Court Mas­ter charged with sev­er­al of­fences con­nect­ed to an at­tempt­ed armed rob­bery and as­sault in Pe­nal ear­li­er this month.

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Tue Aug 19 2025

Air horn stops Carlsen Field home invasion

A Carlsen Field res­i­dent’s quick ac­tion with an air horn forced three ban­dits to aban­don a rob­bery and flee through near­by bush­es ear­ly on Mon­day.

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Shane Superville
Tue Aug 19 2025

Taxi driver lured into ambush and robbed

Po­lice said the man agreed to pick up a woman and drop her to her work­place at the In­de­pen­dence Square out­let of KFC at 8 pm.

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Shane Superville
Tue Aug 19 2025

Drunk driver crashes car into police vehicle

A drunk dri­ver who was go­ing the wrong way on Gold­en Grove Road, Pi­ar­co, end­ed up crash­ing his own car in­to a po­lice ve­hi­cle while be­ing ar­rest­ed.

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Shane Superville
Tue Aug 19 2025

Photo by Rishi Ragoonath

PTSC crash leaves two dead

Emer­gency re­spon­ders are on the scene of a trag­ic crash in­volv­ing a Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) bus in Freeport, which has claimed two lives and left sev­er­al oth­ers in­jured.

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Kevon Felmine
Tue Aug 19 2025

PTSC bus involved in major accident near Freeport

PTSC of­fi­cials are cur­rent­ly at the scene of a ma­jor ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing one of its bus­es.

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Kejan Haynes
Tue Aug 19 2025
Ahmed Al-Hajj carries the body of his daughter, Dana Al-Hajj, 13, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Ahmed Al-Hajj carries the body of his daughter, Dana Al-Hajj, 13, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Abdel Kareem Hana

Qatar urges a Gaza ceasefire after ‘positive response’ from Hamas

A key me­di­a­tor on Tues­day stressed the ur­gency of bro­ker­ing a cease­fire in Gaza af­ter Hamas showed a “pos­i­tive re­sponse” to a pro­pos­al, but Is­rael has yet to weigh in as its mil­i­tary pre­pares an of­fen­sive on some of the ter­ri­to­ry’s most pop­u­lat­ed ar­eas.

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Newsdesk
Tue Aug 19 2025
Minister of Justice Devesh Maharaj and Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander speak to members of the media after their tour of the Besson Street Police Station, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

Minister of Justice Devesh Maharaj and Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander speak to members of the media after their tour of the Besson Street Police Station, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

HUNGRY GANGS

PM links alleged death threats against Defence Minister to CEPEP/URP clampdown; says gangs now starved for public funds

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says threats against De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge were ex­pect­ed due to the “much need­ed ag­gres­sive polic­ing ac­tion” to root out gang ac­tiv­i­ty over the past month. 

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Tue Aug 19 2025
Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles addresses members of the media during a briefing at the Office of the Opposition Leader in Port-of-Spain yesterday.

Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles addresses members of the media during a briefing at the Office of the Opposition Leader in Port-of-Spain yesterday.

KERWIN PIERRE

Penny: Why no arrests on Sturge threats with all the intel?

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ques­tion­ing why, de­spite the wealth of in­tel­li­gence on the threat to kill De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, no ar­rests have been made.

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Tue Aug 19 2025
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