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Friday, September 5, 2025

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Chairman of the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation, Raymond Cozier. [Image courtesy Office of Chairman Raymond Cozier - Mayaro/ Rio Claro Regional Corporation via Facebook]

Chairman of the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation, Raymond Cozier. [Image courtesy Office of Chairman Raymond Cozier - Mayaro/ Rio Claro Regional Corporation via Facebook]

Office of Chairman Raymond Cozier - Mayaro/ Rio Claro Regional Corporation via Facebook

Mayaro/Rio Claro councillors receive July/August pay

Mem­bers of the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion have now been paid af­ter con­cerns were raised over salary de­lays.

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KELLY ANN LEMESSEY
Thu Sep 04 2025
FILE - Minister of Defence and Minister in the Ministry of Homeland Security, Wayne Sturge, speaks during an interview at the Ministry of National Security, Abercromby Street, Port of Spain, in July 2025

FILE - Minister of Defence and Minister in the Ministry of Homeland Security, Wayne Sturge, speaks during an interview at the Ministry of National Security, Abercromby Street, Port of Spain, in July 2025

ANISTO ALVES

Sturge believes U.S. 'war on cartels' can cause drop in TT murder rate

Amid crit­i­cism of the U.S. mil­i­tary’s han­dling of its strike on an al­leged drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel on Tues­day, the De­fence Min­is­ter said the North Amer­i­can na­tion is free to con­duct its ‘war’ as it sees fit.

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AKASH SAMAROO
Thu Sep 04 2025
FILE - A Kenyan police officer part of a UN-backed multinational force runs to take cover from an exchange of gunfire between gangs and police at a Kenyan police base in the Delmas neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

FILE - A Kenyan police officer part of a UN-backed multinational force runs to take cover from an exchange of gunfire between gangs and police at a Kenyan police base in the Delmas neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph

U.S. and Panama to propose new force with power to detain Haiti gang members

The Unit­ed States and Pana­ma are urg­ing the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil to au­tho­rize a 5,550-mem­ber force with the pow­er to de­tain gang mem­bers in Haiti, to help stop the es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence.

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
Thu Sep 04 2025

Caribbean Airlines suspends September flights to Caracas

Caribbean Air­lines has tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed flights be­tween Trinidad and Cara­cas, Venezuela, for the month of Sep­tem­ber.

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Thu Sep 04 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, arrives to meet with Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa at the presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept.. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool)

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, arrives to meet with Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa at the presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept.. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool)

Jacquelyn Martin

Rubio says US is designating 2 more gangs as foreign terrorist groups

U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio said Thurs­day that the Unit­ed States is des­ig­nat­ing two Ecuado­ri­an gangs as for­eign ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tions in the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s lat­est move against car­tels.

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
Thu Sep 04 2025
U.S. Military Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel in U.S. Southern Command

U.S. Military Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel in U.S. Southern Command

‘All lies’: Venezuela’s justice minister denies claim destroyed vessel was on its way to T&T

Venezuela's Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is deny­ing U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s claim that the U.S. mil­i­tary de­stroyed a Venezue­lan ves­sel with drugs that could have been on its way to this coun­try.

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
Thu Sep 04 2025
Police officers inspect the site where a tourist streetcar derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Police officers inspect the site where a tourist streetcar derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Armando Franca

16 dead in Lisbon streetcar crash; investigation underway

Por­tuguese of­fi­cials fo­cused Thurs­day on es­tab­lish­ing the caus­es of the crash of a Lis­bon street­car pop­u­lar with tourists that killed 16 peo­ple and in­jured 21, five of them se­ri­ous­ly.

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Thu Sep 04 2025
FILE - Italian designer Giorgio Armani attends his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2016/17 collection show in Moscow, Russia, April 14, 2016. (AP Photo/ Pavel Bednyakov, File)

FILE - Italian designer Giorgio Armani attends his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2016/17 collection show in Moscow, Russia, April 14, 2016. (AP Photo/ Pavel Bednyakov, File)

Pavel Bednyakov

Legendary Italian designer Giorgio Armani dies

The Ital­ian fash­ion de­sign­er and bil­lion­aire brand own­er Gior­gio Ar­mani has died at the age of 91.

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Thu Sep 04 2025

Grenada joins CAF as newest shareholder country

Grena­da has be­come the lat­est share­hold­er coun­try of CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean. The gov­ern­ment con­firmed that it has com­plet­ed the process to join the in­sti­tu­tion as a Se­ries C share­hold­er.

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Thu Sep 04 2025

Edward Street closed after tree fire in Port of Spain

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) an­nounced a tem­po­rary road clo­sure on Ed­ward Street, Port of Spain, af­ter a fire dam­aged a large tree, leav­ing it un­sta­ble and un­safe.

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Chester Sambrano
Thu Sep 04 2025

Tobago schools set to open on Monday

The Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy (DERTech) has as­sured that all 57 schools un­der its purview, as well as the Rox­bor­ough Trade Cen­tre, will be ready to re­ceive staff and stu­dents on Mon­day 8th Sep­tem­ber, 2025.

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Thu Sep 04 2025
FILE - Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness speaks following a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, in Washington, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

FILE - Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness speaks following a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, in Washington, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Manuel Balce Ceneta

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness elected to a third term as main opposition candidate concedes

Ja­maican Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness se­cured a third term ear­ly Thurs­day fol­low­ing a tight race on an is­land shak­en by cor­rup­tion, in­equity and eco­nom­ic con­cerns.

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Thu Sep 04 2025
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