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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Opinion

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Teen still critical after Fyzabad shooting

San Fer­nan­do West teenag­er Ja­mari Ed­wards re­mains in hos­pi­tal with a bul­let lodged in his liv­er af­ter be­ing shot while buy­ing food in Fyz­abad on Sat­ur­day night.

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RADHICA DE SILVA
Wed Aug 13 2025

Manning accuses trade union leaders of betraying members

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has ac­cused trade union lead­ers of go­ing against their mem­ber­ship and “kiss­ing up” to the Prime Min­is­ter while thou­sands of CEPEP, URP and Forestry work­ers suf­fer.

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Radhica De Silva
Wed Aug 13 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is welcomed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz upon arrival in the garden of the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025 to join a video conference of European leaders with the US President on the Ukraine war. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is welcomed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz upon arrival in the garden of the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025 to join a video conference of European leaders with the US President on the Ukraine war. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP)

John MacDougall

European leaders to speak with Trump ahead of his Friday summit with Putin

Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy on Wednes­day ar­rived in Berlin for talks with Ger­man Chan­cel­lor Friedrich Merz and vir­tu­al meet­ings with oth­er Eu­ro­pean and U.S. lead­ers ahead of a planned sum­mit be­tween Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin lat­er this week.

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Newsdesk
Wed Aug 13 2025

CAL’s corporate communications head resigns

Dionne Ligoure is step­ping down from her po­si­tion as Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Ex­ec­u­tive Man­ag­er at Caribbean Air­lines. Her last day on the job will be Au­gust 31. Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands she ten­dered her res­ig­na­tion in Ju­ly, and it is not linked to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­cent calls for CAL man­age­ment to turn the com­pa­ny around.

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Brent Pinheiro
Wed Aug 13 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Exxon Mobil Upstream Company Vice-President of Global Exploration John Ardill sign the Award of a Production Sharing Contract for Block TTUDI at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, yesterday. Looking on are Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Dr Roodal Moonilal, left, and Minister in the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries Ernesto Kesar.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Exxon Mobil Upstream Company Vice-President of Global Exploration John Ardill sign the Award of a Production Sharing Contract for Block TTUDI at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, yesterday. Looking on are Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Dr Roodal Moonilal, left, and Minister in the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries Ernesto Kesar.

ROGER JACOB

BARRELS OF HOPE

* Strong optimism of an energy turnaround as Govt, ExxonMobil ink US$42.5m oil and gas deal

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says US en­er­gy gi­ant, Exxon­Mo­bil, could spend be­tween US$16.4 bil­lion and US$21.7 bil­lion on de­vel­op­ment costs in the ul­tra deep­wa­ter blocks in T&T’s ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters, 190 miles off Trinidad’s east coast, if the com­pa­ny’s ini­tial seis­mic and oth­er tech­ni­cal stud­ies are suc­cess­ful.

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Wed Aug 13 2025
Opposition Senator Faris Al-Rawi speaks to supporters during the PNM’s public meeting at the Pleasantville Community Centre last night.

Opposition Senator Faris Al-Rawi speaks to supporters during the PNM’s public meeting at the Pleasantville Community Centre last night.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Al-Rawi: CEPEP hired contractors for 9 years without Cabinet approval

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi claims Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors were hired for nine years with­out Cab­i­net ap­proval.

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Wed Aug 13 2025
Siparia Deltones Junior Steel Orchestra members perform during the Steelpan on D Promenade: Youth Edition on the Brian Lara Promenade, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

Siparia Deltones Junior Steel Orchestra members perform during the Steelpan on D Promenade: Youth Edition on the Brian Lara Promenade, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

KERWIN PIERRE

Pan Trinbago urges Govt to upgrade panyards to support youth development

Pan Trin­ba­go Pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to fo­cus on re­fur­bish­ing pa­n­yards rather than con­struct­ing com­mu­ni­ty cen­tres, as pa­n­yards guide young peo­ple to­ward pos­i­tive paths.

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Carisa Lee
Wed Aug 13 2025
Stuart Young

Stuart Young

RISHI RAGOONATH

Young knocks PM for taking full credit on ExxonMobil deal

For­mer prime min­is­ter and en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has chal­lenged claims made by the Gov­ern­ment dur­ing yes­ter­day’s sign­ing of the Pro­duc­tion Shar­ing Con­tract (PSC) with Exxon­Mo­bil for Block TTUD-1.

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Wed Aug 13 2025
Political analyst  Dr Shane Mohammed

Political analyst Dr Shane Mohammed

Analysts back Kamla’s reprimand of Cabinet members

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s blunt warn­ing to Cab­i­net mem­bers that she will “buss their heads” and take de­ci­sive ac­tion if they are found ca­vort­ing with Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) mem­bers, crooked con­trac­tors, or “fake elites,” has drawn strong sup­port from po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts, who say this tone re­flects the kind of de­ci­sive lead­er­ship the coun­try needs.

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Jesse Ramdeo
Wed Aug 13 2025
Former trade and industry minister Stephen Cadiz

Former trade and industry minister Stephen Cadiz

Cadiz criticises PM’s ‘buss your head’ warning as political posturing

For­mer trade and in­dus­try min­is­ter Stephen Cadiz says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s read­ing of the ri­ot act to her min­is­ters and Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) is on­ly to ap­peal to her UNC sup­port­ers.

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Shaliza Hassanali
Wed Aug 13 2025
A clipping of the Cabinet Note at the centre of the current CEPEP contract controversy.

A clipping of the Cabinet Note at the centre of the current CEPEP contract controversy.

Al-Rawi: CEPEP CEO omitted critical information in Cabinet note letter

The Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) is be­ing ac­cused of de­lib­er­ate­ly leav­ing out a key para­graph from the dis­put­ed 2017 Cab­i­net note in a let­ter to the com­pa­ny’s new chair­man. In the let­ter, he cau­tioned that the board does not have the au­thor­i­ty to uni­lat­er­al­ly re­new mul­ti­ple con­tracts with­out gov­ern­ment ap­proval.

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Wed Aug 13 2025
THA Minority Leader Kelvon Morris

THA Minority Leader Kelvon Morris

COURTESY: Assembly Legislature, Tobago House of Assembly

THA under fire for spending priorities

... Morris says $25M on trips, but no toilet paper

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is spend­ing mil­lions on over­seas trips while lo­cal busi­ness­es, work­ers, and even Gov­ern­ment of­fices can’t get paid or sup­plied with ba­sics like toi­let pa­per.

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Elizabeth Gonzales
Wed Aug 13 2025
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