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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Opinion

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Chaguanas Chamber of Industry  and Commerce president  Baldath Maharaj

Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce president Baldath Maharaj

Business chambers want talks with Govt on flooding issues

As the Wet Sea­son com­mences, some busi­ness cham­bers say they are will­ing to give the new Gov­ern­ment a grace pe­ri­od on the is­sue of flood­ing. How­ev­er, they have some sug­ges­tions in hand to mit­i­gate the im­pact of flood­ing, which they are will­ing to share with the new ad­min­is­tra­tion.

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Tue May 20 2025
Opposition leader Pennelope Beckles

Opposition leader Pennelope Beckles

June 2 is nomination day for PNM internal election

June 2 is nom­i­na­tion day for can­di­dates in the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) June 29 in­ter­nal elec­tion.

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Tue May 20 2025
File: The University of the West Indies south campus in Debe.

File: The University of the West Indies south campus in Debe.

UWI South Campus to open in August

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) South Cam­pus in Pe­nal-Debe will of­fi­cial­ly open for aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes in Au­gust 2025, near­ly a decade af­ter its sched­uled com­ple­tion.

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Tue May 20 2025
Tour boats docked near the seaweed line off Speyside, Tobago. The sargassum stretches from the shoreline deep into the water.

Tour boats docked near the seaweed line off Speyside, Tobago. The sargassum stretches from the shoreline deep into the water.

ELIZABETH GONZALES

Sargassum crisis worries Tobago hotel stakeholders

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean says de­spite spend­ing over a quar­ter mil­lion dol­lars last year to fight sar­gas­sum, the cri­sis is on­ly get­ting worse.

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Tue May 20 2025
The rising waters on banks of the Caroni River in Piarco after midday rains yesterday.

The rising waters on banks of the Caroni River in Piarco after midday rains yesterday.

ROGER JACOB

Met Office declares start of Wet Season

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has de­clared the start of the 2025 Wet Sea­son, af­ter record­ing rain­fall in­di­rect­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with the In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone (ITCZ) that af­fect­ed the coun­try over the week­end.

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Tue May 20 2025
Minister of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development,  Kennedy Swaratsingh

Minister of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development, Kennedy Swaratsingh

Minister: Govt integrating climate risk into flooding plans

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, says there are plans to in­te­grate cli­mate risk in­to the coun­try’s na­tion­al and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment plans. It comes as cli­mate ex­perts yes­ter­day called on of­fi­cials to fo­cus their ef­forts on plans to mit­i­gate the im­pacts of flood­ing.

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Tue May 20 2025
Regional security expert Garvin Heerah

Regional security expert Garvin Heerah

ROGER JACOB

Heerah: T&T not fully equipped to deal with deportees

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­sul­tant Garvin Heer­ah says there is an ur­gent need for a co­or­di­nat­ed Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty strat­e­gy on how to ad­dress con­cerns of de­por­tees from the US.

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Tue May 20 2025
ASHTON FORDE

ASHTON FORDE

PNM members concerned over ‘rushed’ election convention,

says Ford

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford says mem­bers are con­cerned about the “rushed” June 29 elec­tion con­ven­tion. He is al­so call­ing on the cur­rent lead­er­ship to re­con­sid­er the ex­clu­sion of par­ty groups’ par­tic­i­pa­tion in the process.

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Tue May 20 2025
Janet Calliste

Janet Calliste

Stalin’s wife seeks to overturn judgment for unauthorised use of photo

The wid­ow of five-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch Leroy “Black Stal­in” Cal­liste is seek­ing to over­turn a de­fault judg­ment of over $300,000 ob­tained against her by a pho­to­jour­nal­ist for the unau­tho­rised use of a pho­to­graph of her late hus­band.

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Tue May 20 2025
A Fire Service investigator takes photos while examining the scene of a fire that left a family of three homeless at Buen Intento, Princes Town, yesterday.

A Fire Service investigator takes photos while examining the scene of a fire that left a family of three homeless at Buen Intento, Princes Town, yesterday.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Family loses home in fire as Princes Town station remains closed

As dis­as­ter struck a Princes Town fam­i­ly on Sun­day, they could on­ly stand help­less­ly by the road­side and watch as a fire en­gulfed their home, de­stroy­ing near­ly every­thing they owned.

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KEVON FELMINE
Tue May 20 2025
Jamaican dancehall artiste Adidja “Vybz Kartel” Palmer

Jamaican dancehall artiste Adidja “Vybz Kartel” Palmer

Overtime Media

Defence Minister gets new itinerary for Kartel visit

Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Struge says a fi­nal de­ci­sion on the itin­er­ary for dance­hall su­per­star Adidjah “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer should be made soon, but says his min­istry on­ly re­ceived a new sched­ule yes­ter­day.

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Carisa Lee
Tue May 20 2025
Piarco International Airport

Piarco International Airport

DPP orders 2 suspects released in airport murder investigation

Two Diego Mar­tin men were re­leased af­ter spend­ing three days in cus­tody as in­quiries in­to the mur­der of Arkim Quashie con­tin­ue.

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Shane Superville
Tue May 20 2025
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