Sunday, July 6, 2025

$4.1B in CEPEP spending unaudited for over a decade

CEPEP crew clearing grass along the South Trunk Road in Bel Air, La Romain, earlier this year.

CEPEP crew clearing grass along the South Trunk Road in Bel Air, La Romain, earlier this year.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

More than $6.5 bil­lion in pub­lic funds was pumped in­to the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) over 15 years–be­tween 2009 and 2023–by the Gov­ern­ment.

by

Joshua Seemungal

News

A teacher and a male student of the Moruga Secondary School in a fight on the school compound earlier this year.

A teacher and a male student of the Moruga Secondary School in a fight on the school compound earlier this year.

Alarm bells ring over school violence; 2,000 suspension in one term

Near­ly 2,000 stu­dents were sus­pend­ed in a sin­gle school term dur­ing the 2021/2022 aca­d­e­m­ic year—a star­tling in­di­ca­tor of ris­ing dis­ci­pline chal­lenges in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

Commonwealth observers at the Belmont Secondary School during the April 28 General Election.

Commonwealth observers at the Belmont Secondary School during the April 28 General Election.

ROBERTO CODALLO

Commonwealth observers flag bribery,

spending gaps and apathy in 2025 election

The Com­mon­wealth Ob­serv­er Group’s fi­nal re­port on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion has raised mul­ti­ple con­cerns about the coun­try’s elec­toral en­vi­ron­ment, high­light­ing al­le­ga­tions of bribery, gaps in cam­paign fi­nance laws, vot­er dis­en­gage­ment, un­equal me­dia ac­cess, and un­der­rep­re­sen­ta­tion of women in Par­lia­ment.

Driver robbed of cash in Sea Lots

A dri­ver at­tached to Fur­ness Trinidad Lim­it­ed was robbed at gun­point by three men yes­ter­day morn­ing as he left Sea Lots af­ter col­lect­ing mon­ey for his em­ploy­er.

Woman shot, body dumped in Chaguanas drain

Ten days af­ter the bod­ies of two His­pan­ic women were dis­cov­ered in a shal­low grave in Cunu­pia, an­oth­er woman has been found mur­dered—this time, her body dumped in a drain in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas.

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CEPEP crew clearing grass along the South Trunk Road in Bel Air, La Romain, earlier this year.

CEPEP crew clearing grass along the South Trunk Road in Bel Air, La Romain, earlier this year.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

$4.1B in CEPEP spending unaudited for over a decade

More than $6.5 bil­lion in pub­lic funds was pumped in­to the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) over 15 years–be­tween 2009 and 2023–by the Gov­ern­ment.

by

Joshua Seemungal
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