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Sunday, July 6, 2025

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Crab catcher Jerard Babwah, left, and a resident display crab traps affected by the oil spill in the mangrove at the Marabella train line, Sunday.

Crab catcher Jerard Babwah, left, and a resident display crab traps affected by the oil spill in the mangrove at the Marabella train line, Sunday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Marabella oil spill cleanup almost complete says Heritage

Clean-up ac­tiv­i­ties fol­low­ing a hy­dro­car­bon leak in the riv­er course from Tarou­ba to Mara­bel­la are al­most com­plet­ed, con­firmed Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd, in a press re­lease yes­ter­day.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Theon Morales, owner of Brews on D Road, walks along Trincity Central Road, ready to serve morning commuters.

Theon Morales, owner of Brews on D Road, walks along Trincity Central Road, ready to serve morning commuters.

CHE TEEKERSINGH

Brewing up innovation and inspiration

We’ve all been stuck in traf­fic at some point; some of us more of­ten than oth­ers. Dur­ing peak hours, when you’re run­ning low on sleep and the ed­i­ble kind of fu­el, time seems to crawl even slow­er. How­ev­er, one Arou­ca man is hop­ing to change that—by perk­ing up com­muters’ morn­ings and mak­ing their dai­ly crawl a lit­tle more brew-ti­ful.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
CEPEP Company Limited, General Manager, Keith Eddy

CEPEP Company Limited, General Manager, Keith Eddy

CEPEP betrayal

Fired workers dazed, scared; beg Govt to reconsider move

Sev­er­al for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers who went to the com­pa­ny’s head­quar­ters in Ste Madeleine seek­ing an­swers yes­ter­day, were left dis­ap­point­ed, feel­ing be­trayed and un­cer­tain about their fu­ture.

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Sascha Wilson & Chester Sambrano
Tue Jul 01 2025
NATUC general secretary  Michael Annisette

NATUC general secretary Michael Annisette

ABRAHAM DIAZ

NATUC urges Govt to absorb CEPEP workers pending reform exercise

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) is stand­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with over 10,500 ter­mi­nat­ed Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers. Fur­ther­more, it is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to ab­sorb the work­ers in­to the ex­ist­ing con­trac­tu­al frame­work of the com­pa­ny un­til it re­solves is­sues it has high­light­ed.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Senate President Wade Mark

Senate President Wade Mark

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Mark issues a stern warning in defence of Senators

‘Intimidation, harassment wont be taken lightly’

Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark is­sued a stern warn­ing to mem­bers of the Up­per House yes­ter­day that words or ac­tions that cross the line in­to ha­rass­ment, in­tim­i­da­tion, or at­tempts to shame sen­a­tors for how they vote, or to pres­sure them to vote in a par­tic­u­lar way, will not be tol­er­at­ed or tak­en light­ly.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Government Senators during the debate on the Prime Minister’s Pension Amendment Bill yesterday.

Government Senators during the debate on the Prime Minister’s Pension Amendment Bill yesterday.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

No PM’s benefit for Young

Senate passes changes to pension bill with help from Independents

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young will not be re­ceiv­ing a prime min­is­te­r­i­al pen­sion, af­ter the Sen­ate yes­ter­day ap­proved the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, which now sets a min­i­mum one-year term in of­fice for any prime min­is­ter to qual­i­fy for a State pen­sion. The bill al­so has a tiered pay­ment struc­ture based on time served. Cru­cial­ly, the bill ap­plies retroac­tive­ly from March 10, 2025, com­plete­ly dis­qual­i­fy­ing Young, who served from March 17 to April 28.

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Kejan Haynes & Gail Alexander
Tue Jul 01 2025
Prof Hamid Ghany

Prof Hamid Ghany

Analysts agree with Govt concerns over Independent Senators

Two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts are back­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s con­cerns about the so-called in­de­pen­dence of sen­a­tors ap­point­ed by the Pres­i­dent. But a for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor who faced the re­buke of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer, Dr Kirk Meighoo, is dis­miss­ing his crit­i­cism as base­less.

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Dareece Polo
Tue Jul 01 2025
Independent Senator Michael Simon de la Bastide during his contribution yesterday.

Independent Senator Michael Simon de la Bastide during his contribution yesterday.

Courtesy Parliament

De la Bastide, Mc Nish back retrospective PM pension bill

Two In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors have backed Gov­ern­ment’s con­tro­ver­sial bid to ap­ply a law retroac­tive­ly to re­voke a prime min­is­te­r­i­al pen­sion for Stu­art Young, who held of­fice for just 30 days.

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KEVON FELMINE
Tue Jul 01 2025

SEA results to be released online on Thursday

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has an­nounced that re­sults for the 2025 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) will be avail­able on­line from 11 pm on Thurs­day.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Acting WASA CEO Jeevan Joseph

Acting WASA CEO Jeevan Joseph

WASA appoints another new director

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed Man­noo Bridglal as Di­rec­tor of Op­er­a­tions, but on­ly on a short-term ba­sis.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
ACP Curt Simon

ACP Curt Simon

NICOLE DRAYTON

ACP Simon dismisses ‘lost file’ claim in DCP Martin probe

ACP Curt Si­mon has de­nied me­dia re­ports that the file on the probe in­to DCP Suzette Mar­tin, in the mat­ter in­volv­ing the ar­rest of busi­ness­man Brent Thomas, has gone miss­ing.

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Shane Superville
Tue Jul 01 2025
Former Police Social Welfare Association president,  ACP Anand Ramesar

Former Police Social Welfare Association president, ACP Anand Ramesar

Court blocks TTPSSWA election

Hours af­ter the polls opened for mem­bers to vote for a new T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) ex­ec­u­tive, a High Court judge grant­ed an in­ter­im in­junc­tion to one of the con­test­ing slates, halt­ing the process.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Tue Jul 01 2025
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