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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Opinion

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Jankie Satie Karim, who was kidnapped on July 13 and rescued by police on July 21 in Rampanalgas.

Jankie Satie Karim, who was kidnapped on July 13 and rescued by police on July 21 in Rampanalgas.

Judge orders cops to charge or release dentist held in Karim kidnapping probe

Of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) have un­til 4 pm to­day to for­mal­ly charge or re­lease a den­tist who was ar­rest­ed last week, af­ter he was sus­pect­ed of re­ceiv­ing a ran­som pay­ment con­nect­ed to the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Tue Jul 29 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar responds to questions from members of the media before attending yesterday’s sitting of the Parliament.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar responds to questions from members of the media before attending yesterday’s sitting of the Parliament.

KERWIN PIERRE

Govt mum on when public servants getting 10% increase

PM: We’re looking for money

With the na­tion­al bud­get ap­proach­ing, both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo have failed to pro­vide a de­fin­i­tive time­line for when pub­lic ser­vants will re­ceive the promised ten per cent wage in­crease.

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Tue Jul 29 2025
Minister of Public Utilities Barry Padarath speaks to members of the media outside the Red House before attending the sitting of Parliament yesterday.

Minister of Public Utilities Barry Padarath speaks to members of the media outside the Red House before attending the sitting of Parliament yesterday.

KERWIN PIERRE

New CEPEP chairman named; rehiring still uncertain

Dain Ma­haraj has been ap­point­ed chair­man of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), but there is still no clear time­line for hir­ing new con­trac­tors—a move that could po­ten­tial­ly pave the way for the re-em­ploy­ment of re­cent­ly ter­mi­nat­ed work­ers.

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Tue Jul 29 2025
Violinist Stanley Roach, of Malabar, plays his violin on Independence Square Port-of-Spain.

Violinist Stanley Roach, of Malabar, plays his violin on Independence Square Port-of-Spain.

ROGER JACOB

Stanley Roach: Serenading the city one string at a time 

The streets of Port-of-Spain tell many sto­ries. For some, they’re sim­ply a path from one place to the next. For oth­ers, they re­veal a harsh­er re­al­i­ty—one marked by noise, hus­tle, and mo­ments that aren’t al­ways easy on the eyes or ears. How­ev­er, one man is hop­ing to change that—not through protest or pol­i­cy, but with some­thing far more el­e­gant: clas­si­cal mu­sic.

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Lee Anna Maharaj
Tue Jul 29 2025
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets members of the Cabinet on his arrival at the Piarco International Airport for a two-day state visit on July 3.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets members of the Cabinet on his arrival at the Piarco International Airport for a two-day state visit on July 3.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Sobers: Modi’s visit cost taxpayers $900,000

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, Sean Sobers, says the two-day of­fi­cial vis­it of In­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di cost tax­pay­ers “around $900,000.”

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Tue Jul 29 2025
Former Mayaro MP Rushton Paray

Former Mayaro MP Rushton Paray

Kamla’s uncontested win signals UNC stability, says Paray

For­mer Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray, once la­belled a dis­si­dent with­in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), has ex­pressed full sup­port for Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing her un­op­posed re-elec­tion as Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the par­ty on Sun­day.

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Jesse Ramdeo
Tue Jul 29 2025
Minister of Culture and Community Development Michelle Benjamin, second from left, joins Emancipation Support Committee executive chair Zakiya Uzoma-Wadada in cutting the ribbon during the official opening of the Lidj Yasu Omowale Village at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, on Friday. Also in picture are, Parliamentary Secretary Dr Narindra Roopnarine, left, and Minister in the Ministry of Housing Phillip Alexander.

Minister of Culture and Community Development Michelle Benjamin, second from left, joins Emancipation Support Committee executive chair Zakiya Uzoma-Wadada in cutting the ribbon during the official opening of the Lidj Yasu Omowale Village at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, on Friday. Also in picture are, Parliamentary Secretary Dr Narindra Roopnarine, left, and Minister in the Ministry of Housing Phillip Alexander.

ANISTO ALVES

Benjamin: Culture Ministry, ESCTT ‘moving forward’ after funding row

Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin and the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee are mov­ing for­ward, even af­ter she is­sued a sting­ing me­dia re­lease on Sun­day de­mand­ing ac­count­abil­i­ty from the or­gan­i­sa­tion over gov­ern­ment fi­nanc­ing.

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Carisa Lee
Tue Jul 29 2025
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

COURTESY: UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth

Antigua PM: Info to flag Rowley did not originate in St John’s

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne said yes­ter­day that the in­for­ma­tion which led im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cers to make “fur­ther in­quiries” of for­mer T&T prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley did not orig­i­nate in St John’s.

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Tue Jul 29 2025

National Security worker accused of $700,000 fraud

A Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty em­ploy­ee has been grant­ed $450,000 bail af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged with em­bez­zle­ment at the min­istry.

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Tue Jul 29 2025

Man in custody tries to harm himself; psychiatric assessment ordered

A Diego Mar­tin man who at­tempt­ed to harm him­self twice whilst in po­lice cus­tody over the week­end re­mained un­der po­lice guard at hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Tue Jul 29 2025

Couple robbed, shot at Skinner Park

A man and a woman are re­cov­er­ing at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing robbed and shot at Skin­ner Park in the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

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Kevon Felmine
Tue Jul 29 2025

Education Ministry offers support after student’s drowning

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences and pledged sup­port to the school com­mu­ni­ty of San Juan North Sec­ondary fol­low­ing the death of Form Four stu­dent Isa­iah Pem­ber­ton.

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Mon Jul 28 2025
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