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Monday, July 7, 2025

Opinion

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Police investigators return to the crime scene where Kelvin “Balo” Paul (inset) was fatally shot and three others injured at La Platta Circular, KP Lands Valencia on Sunday.

Police investigators return to the crime scene where Kelvin “Balo” Paul (inset) was fatally shot and three others injured at La Platta Circular, KP Lands Valencia on Sunday.

ROGER JACOB

One dead, 7 injured after two shootings in Eastern Division

A 39-year-old man was shot dead and three oth­ers in­jured dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing at­tack in KP Lands, Va­len­cia, just hours af­ter four men were wound­ed in a sep­a­rate shoot­ing in San­gre Grande.

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Anna-Lisa Paul & Ralph Banwarie
Mon Jul 07 2025
Police investigators process the scene of a fatal shooting along Nelson Street, Port of Spain, yesterday.

Police investigators process the scene of a fatal shooting along Nelson Street, Port of Spain, yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

Unidentified man gunned down on Nelson Street

The mur­ders con­tin­ued yes­ter­day with the killing of an uniden­ti­fied man at the cor­ner of Nel­son and Prince Streets, Port-of-Spain.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Jul 07 2025
Marissa Paul, right, shows a top to an unidentified woman during the Curepe Community group’s first charity share drive, held at the Curepe Community Centre, Saldenah Terrace, Curepe, last week.

Marissa Paul, right, shows a top to an unidentified woman during the Curepe Community group’s first charity share drive, held at the Curepe Community Centre, Saldenah Terrace, Curepe, last week.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Curepe group goes from keeping residents safe to helping those in need

Un­aware of the pow­er she held as she formed an on­line group called the Curepe Ad­min Com­mu­ni­ty back in 2020, Anush­ka Ramjohn ini­tial­ly used it as a tool to keep res­i­dents of Curepe in­formed and up­dat­ed on neigh­bour­hood ac­tiv­i­ties and sus­pect­ed crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Jul 07 2025
PNM Chairman Marvin Gonzales

PNM Chairman Marvin Gonzales

Gonzales urges NGOs to join with PNM to fight job losses in T&T

With an al­leged 20,000 pub­lic sec­tor work­ers dis­missed since the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) as­sumed of­fice, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on non­govern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tions (NGOs) to unite with his par­ty to con­front what he de­scribes as es­ca­lat­ing so­cial in­jus­tice.

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KEVON FELMINE
Mon Jul 07 2025
Former Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan

Former Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan

Ex-minister says Govt must ensure refinery bidder has capital for investment

En­er­gy ex­pert and for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan says there is a need for a rep­utable in­ter­na­tion­al in­vestor to re­open Petrotrin’s Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Mon Jul 07 2025
T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce chief executive officer Vashti Guyadeen

T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce chief executive officer Vashti Guyadeen

Business groups excited by agreements between India, T&T

Busi­ness groups see the mul­ti­ple Mem­o­ran­da of Un­der­stand­ing (MoUs) be­tween T&T and In­dia as hav­ing the po­ten­tial to push mean­ing­ful trans­for­ma­tion across key sec­tors, in­clud­ing health, agri­cul­ture, re­new­able en­er­gy, jus­tice, ed­u­ca­tion and trade.

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Mon Jul 07 2025
Former primary school teacher Omella Achong reviews past papers with SEA student Ebraheem Jdid during an interview at her home in Arima yesterday.

Former primary school teacher Omella Achong reviews past papers with SEA student Ebraheem Jdid during an interview at her home in Arima yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

Retired teacher helps boy relearn English and achieve SEA success

At 11 pm on Ju­ly 3, when Ebra­heem Jdid logged in to the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am por­tal, he did not think the re­sults would show Holy Cross Col­lege.

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Carisa Lee
Mon Jul 07 2025
National Parent Teacher Association (NPTA) president Walter Stewart, left, speaks with NPTA second vice president Zena Ramatali and Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen during the NPTA’s 65th Anniversary Interfaith Service at City Hall, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

National Parent Teacher Association (NPTA) president Walter Stewart, left, speaks with NPTA second vice president Zena Ramatali and Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen during the NPTA’s 65th Anniversary Interfaith Service at City Hall, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

NPTA wants TTPS to help parents curb school violence

Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA) pres­i­dent, Wal­ter Stew­art, is ap­peal­ing to Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, to work with them to curb school vi­o­lence.

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Carisa Lee
Mon Jul 07 2025
A screen grab from a video posted on social media showing a teenaged girl next to a police vehicle used to transport her to graduation.

A screen grab from a video posted on social media showing a teenaged girl next to a police vehicle used to transport her to graduation.

SOCIAL MEDIA

CoP requests report after police car used to take teen to graduation

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has called for a for­mal re­port to be sub­mit­ted to him af­ter of­fi­cers in the South­ern Di­vi­sion were seen drop­ping off a teenag­er at her grad­u­a­tion in a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Jul 07 2025

Teacher walks free after sexual assault case takes emotional toll on alleged victim

A Lange Park teacher, who faced a charge of sex­u­al­ly touch­ing a child, was freed on Fri­day af­ter the child's moth­er tes­ti­fied that the on­go­ing court pro­ceed­ings had tak­en a se­vere men­tal toll on her daugh­ter.

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KEVON FELMINE
Mon Jul 07 2025

Shooting outside Woodbrook club leaves PoS man hospitalised

A pre-dawn shoot­ing out­side Ibiza Night Club & Rooftop Lounge yes­ter­day has reignit­ed de­bate about safe­ty on Ari­api­ta Av­enue, with so­cial me­dia users urg­ing au­thor­i­ties to ban ve­hi­cles and in­tro­duce body scan­ners.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Jul 07 2025

Arima man chased from vehicle; later dies at hospital

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the mur­der of an Ari­ma man on Sat­ur­day night. Po­lice said Rick­el Bai­ley of Pin­to was am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times while dri­ving through Olton Road, Ari­ma, around 10.25 pm. He suc­cumbed to his in­juries at hos­pi­tal.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Jul 07 2025
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