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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Opinion

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Driver robbed of cash in Sea Lots

A dri­ver at­tached to Fur­ness Trinidad Lim­it­ed was robbed at gun­point by three men yes­ter­day morn­ing as he left Sea Lots af­ter col­lect­ing mon­ey for his em­ploy­er.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Sun Jul 06 2025

Woman shot, body dumped in Chaguanas drain

Ten days af­ter the bod­ies of two His­pan­ic women were dis­cov­ered in a shal­low grave in Cunu­pia, an­oth­er woman has been found mur­dered—this time, her body dumped in a drain in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Sun Jul 06 2025
The vehicle that was shot up during the Sangre Grande attack.

The vehicle that was shot up during the Sangre Grande attack.

Ralph Banwarie

Four wounded in Sangre Grande shooting

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al is among four peo­ple shot and wound­ed when gun­men opened fire on the ve­hi­cle they were trav­el­ling in.

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Sun Jul 06 2025
CEPEP crew clearing grass along the South Trunk Road in Bel Air, La Romain, earlier this year.

CEPEP crew clearing grass along the South Trunk Road in Bel Air, La Romain, earlier this year.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

$4.1B in CEPEP spending unaudited for over a decade

More than $6.5 bil­lion in pub­lic funds was pumped in­to the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) over 15 years–be­tween 2009 and 2023–by the Gov­ern­ment.

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Joshua Seemungal
Sun Jul 06 2025
Zion Roberts, who was killed in a shooting at Serraneau Road, Belmont, on Thursday.

Zion Roberts, who was killed in a shooting at Serraneau Road, Belmont, on Thursday.

CoP meets relatives of murdered Belmont teenager

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day met with the fam­i­ly of mur­dered teenag­er Zion Roberts, of­fer­ing words of com­fort and as­sur­ing them that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) would do every­thing pos­si­ble to bring those re­spon­si­ble to jus­tice.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Sun Jul 06 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar

ROGER JACOB

PM Kamla absent as regional leaders meet in Jamaica

As re­gion­al lead­ers con­vene in Mon­tego Bay, Ja­maica, to­day for the 49th Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing, this coun­try’s Prime Min­is­ter will be un­ex­plain­ably ab­sent. This means Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has cho­sen to skip the first Cari­com meet­ing of this mag­ni­tude to oc­cur dur­ing her sec­ond term as Prime Min­is­ter.

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Akash Samaroo
Sun Jul 06 2025
From left, Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Phillip Watts, MP Ernesto Kesar, and Construction Services and Supplies Ltd Project Manager Anil Paul discuss ongoing works during a tour of the Chatham Youth Development and Apprenticeship Centre.

From left, Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Phillip Watts, MP Ernesto Kesar, and Construction Services and Supplies Ltd Project Manager Anil Paul discuss ongoing works during a tour of the Chatham Youth Development and Apprenticeship Centre.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Watts probes $19M Chatham youth centre refurbishment

With near­ly all of a $19 mil­lion con­tract al­ready paid to a con­trac­tor for the re­fur­bish­ment of the Chatham Youth De­vel­op­ment Ap­pren­tice­ship Cen­tre, Sports and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts is now ques­tion­ing where the mon­ey went, giv­en that the project is on­ly 70 per cent com­plete.

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KEVON FELMINE
Sun Jul 06 2025
A Whale Shark spotted at the Peak Yacht Services Marina in Chaguaramas yesterday.

A Whale Shark spotted at the Peak Yacht Services Marina in Chaguaramas yesterday.

Majestic Whale Shark makes rare appearance in Chaguaramas

Em­ploy­ees and pa­trons at the Peake Yacht Ser­vices Ma­ri­na in Ch­aguara­mas around 8:15 yes­ter­day morn­ing re­ceived a spe­cial vis­it from the world’s biggest fish, the Whale Shark.

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Carisa Lee
Sun Jul 06 2025
Scores of terminated CEPEP workers march to the head office in Usine Ste Madeleine during their protest on Wednesday.

Scores of terminated CEPEP workers march to the head office in Usine Ste Madeleine during their protest on Wednesday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Contractor backs down after legal challenge from CEPEP

CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has ac­cused Stephen Samuel’s Con­trac­tors Ltd of abus­ing the courts to wage a po­lit­i­cal at­tack on the Gov­ern­ment, but then abrupt­ly with­drew its case with­out warn­ing af­ter trig­ger­ing a cost­ly le­gal re­sponse.

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Kejan Haynes
Sun Jul 06 2025
Secondary Entrance Assessment top performers, from left, front row, Ashlyn Ramkissoon of Jordan Hill Presbyterian School, Sandhya Maharaj of Macaulay Government School, Kailash Dialsingh of Exchange Presbyterian School, home-schooled student Xavier Telesford, and Nicholas Dolly of Chaguanas Government School. In the back row, from left, are Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Claudelle McKellar, Minister of Education Michael Dowlath, and Chief Education Officer Dr Peter Smith. The photo was taken during the SEA 2025 Recognition Ceremony at the Education Tower, St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

Secondary Entrance Assessment top performers, from left, front row, Ashlyn Ramkissoon of Jordan Hill Presbyterian School, Sandhya Maharaj of Macaulay Government School, Kailash Dialsingh of Exchange Presbyterian School, home-schooled student Xavier Telesford, and Nicholas Dolly of Chaguanas Government School. In the back row, from left, are Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Claudelle McKellar, Minister of Education Michael Dowlath, and Chief Education Officer Dr Peter Smith. The photo was taken during the SEA 2025 Recognition Ceremony at the Education Tower, St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

Three boys, two girls among top 2025 SEA performers

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Michael Dowlath has rein­tro­duced the pub­lic an­nounce­ment of the top-per­form­ing stu­dents in the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA).

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Carisa Lee
Sat Jul 05 2025
Veteran journalist Ricky Singh

Veteran journalist Ricky Singh

Veteran journalist Rickey Singh dies

The Caribbean me­dia com­mu­ni­ty is mourn­ing the loss of one of its most re­spect­ed voic­es, vet­er­an re­gion­al jour­nal­ist Rick­ey Singh, who passed away on Sat­ur­day in Bar­ba­dos.

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Sat Jul 05 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar speaks about school security in Parliament yesterday.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar speaks about school security in Parliament yesterday.

ROGER JACOB

PM on SEA: “No matter the school you will succeed”

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­grat­u­lat­ed stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go on re­ceiv­ing their 2025 SEA re­sults, telling them they have al­ready achieved some­thing re­mark­able by show­ing re­silience and ded­i­ca­tion.

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Sat Jul 05 2025
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