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Friday, July 25, 2025

Opinion

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Relatives of inmates at the Maximum Security Prison leave after visiting their loved ones yesterday.

Relatives of inmates at the Maximum Security Prison leave after visiting their loved ones yesterday.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Prison officers applaud late-night raid at MSP

The Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) has praised Tues­day night’s co­or­di­nat­ed raid at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), call­ing it “ex­cel­lent work” by po­lice and prison of­fi­cials in re­sponse to a se­ri­ous threat.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Thu Jul 24 2025

GUARDIAN

Cops kill Couva man during anti-crime operation

A man was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Cou­va on Tues­day night, as of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to in­tel­li­gence about il­le­gal firearms and am­mu­ni­tion in the area.

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Thu Jul 24 2025
Gary Griffith

Gary Griffith

Griffith backs tougher gun laws; warns criminals exploiting bail loopholes

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and ex-Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith has thrown his sup­port be­hind Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s call for tougher penal­ties on gun crimes, in­clud­ing au­to­mat­ic bail de­nial and life im­pris­on­ment.

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Dareece Polo
Thu Jul 24 2025
A screen grab from a video posted on social media showing a teenage girl next to a police vehicle used to transport her to graduation.

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

TTPS: Officers who transported graduate acted lawfully

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed that of­fi­cers seen in a vi­ral video trans­port­ing a young woman to her grad­u­a­tion in a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle act­ed law­ful­ly and with prop­er au­tho­ri­sa­tion.

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Thu Jul 24 2025
Former Lennox Petroleum workers, from left, Adrian Alexander, Eric Wheeler, Dennis Sylvan and Shawn Cayenne outside the Industrial Court in San Fernando.

Former Lennox Petroleum workers, from left, Adrian Alexander, Eric Wheeler, Dennis Sylvan and Shawn Cayenne outside the Industrial Court in San Fernando.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Eight years later, offshore workers still awaiting justice

Eight years af­ter they were dis­missed for tak­ing a stand on health and safe­ty is­sues aboard an off­shore plat­form, 22 for­mer Lennox Pe­tro­le­um Ser­vices work­ers say they re­main black­list­ed from the en­er­gy sec­tor—de­spite a le­gal vic­to­ry and an or­der for com­pen­sa­tion.

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KEVON FELMINE
Thu Jul 24 2025

Decomposing body found in Penal dam

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the dis­cov­ery of a de­com­pos­ing body in a dam in Pe­nal on Tues­day. While po­lice await pos­i­tive iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, the body is be­lieved to be that of a 94-year-old man who had been miss­ing since last week.

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Thu Jul 24 2025
Justice Nalini Singh

Justice Nalini Singh



Man freed of murder charge after accuser admits error

A 30-year-old man from Mor­vant, ac­cused of mur­der­ing a woman and wound­ing her boyfriend in 2023, has been freed af­ter her boyfriend ad­mit­ted that he had wrong­ly im­pli­cat­ed him.

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Thu Jul 24 2025
Ramesh Harnarine plays with his dog at his Barrackpore home on Wednesday, a day after bandits invaded his house.

Ramesh Harnarine plays with his dog at his Barrackpore home on Wednesday, a day after bandits invaded his house.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Fearful Barrackpore farmer calls for more police patrols

Af­ter falling vic­tim to crim­i­nals six times in just five years, a frus­trat­ed Bar­rack­pore farmer is call­ing on au­thor­i­ties to re­store reg­u­lar po­lice pa­trols in the farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty and to fast-track the ap­proval process for Firearm User’s Li­cences (FULs).

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Thu Jul 24 2025
Minister of Culture and Community Development Michelle Benjamin gives remarks during the appointment ceremony of the National Carnival Commission board at the ministry’s head office on July 16.

Minister of Culture and Community Development Michelle Benjamin gives remarks during the appointment ceremony of the National Carnival Commission board at the ministry’s head office on July 16.

Courtesy: NCCTT

Minister orders audit into $200M loan at NCC

A full-scale in­ter­nal au­dit has been or­dered in­to the op­er­a­tions and fi­nances of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), af­ter new­ly ap­point­ed Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin raised alarm over a $178 mil­lion debt still owed to ser­vice providers from Car­ni­val 2025.

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Thu Jul 24 2025
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, third from right, along with other heads of government from Caricom, private sector members and indigenous people, raise their hands after signing on to the Global Biodiversity Alliance in Georgetown, Guyana, yesterday.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, third from right, along with other heads of government from Caricom, private sector members and indigenous people, raise their hands after signing on to the Global Biodiversity Alliance in Georgetown, Guyana, yesterday.

GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY ALLIANCE

Ali calls for tripling of global financing as biodiversity alliance formed

Guyana Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali has called for the tripling of glob­al fi­nances to pro­tect na­ture and stave off the ef­fects cli­mate change is hav­ing on bio­di­ver­si­ty. He made the call as he ad­dressed the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Glob­al Bio­di­ver­si­ty Al­liance Sum­mit in George­town yes­ter­day.

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Thu Jul 24 2025
Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation president Ainsley King

Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation president Ainsley King

TUCO denies $.1M payout allegations

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) is deny­ing al­le­ga­tions made by vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Er­rol “Bal­ly” Bal­lan­tyne that mem­bers of its gen­er­al coun­cil paid them­selves $100,000 each in ex­change for not com­pet­ing in this year’s Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

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Thu Jul 24 2025
Preparations for next week's CeCe Winans More Than This: Trinidad concert at the Queen's Park Oval.

Preparations for next week's CeCe Winans More Than This: Trinidad concert at the Queen's Park Oval.

Host pastor: CeCe Winans concert is what T&T needs at this time

Mo­ti­va­tion­al speak­er and pas­tor Luke Quam­i­na be­lieves the up­com­ing CeCe Winans More Than This: Trinidad con­cert is ex­act­ly what the coun­try needs at this time.

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Wed Jul 23 2025
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