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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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FILE: The crew on board the USS Lake Erie in Hawaii in 2004.

FILE: The crew on board the USS Lake Erie in Hawaii in 2004.

DIVDS Photo/PH2 D. C. Cantrell

US deploys 2 more ships to Caribbean; Venezuela complains to UN

The Unit­ed States’ re­cent move to or­der ad­di­tion­al ships—in­clud­ing a nu­clear-pow­ered at­tack sub­ma­rine—to the south­ern Caribbean to ad­dress drug car­tel threats has been con­demned by Venezuela’s mis­sion to the Unit­ed Na­tions, which says the en­try of a nu­clear sub­ma­rine to the re­gion vi­o­lates treaties the US has signed.

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Sun Aug 03 2025
US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington yesterday, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on.

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington yesterday, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on.

AP

Marco Rubio hails T&T as ally in its war on drugs

The Don­ald Trump Unit­ed States (US) ad­min­is­tra­tion has hailed Trinidad and To­ba­go as an al­ly in its fight against Venezue­lan and Mex­i­can drug car­tels in the re­gion.

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Wed Aug 27 2025
The shattered back door of the Claxton Bay home where a masked intruder violently broke in on August 23, leaving a 66-year-old shipowner hospitalized with a brain bleed and fractured ribs.

The shattered back door of the Claxton Bay home where a masked intruder violently broke in on August 23, leaving a 66-year-old shipowner hospitalized with a brain bleed and fractured ribs.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Shopkeeper hospitalised after brutal home invasion attack

In the af­ter­math of a shock­ing at­tack on a cher­ished Clax­ton Bay shop­keep­er, a com­mu­ni­ty is now fear­ful, cling­ing to hope for di­vine in­ter­ven­tion and jus­tice amidst the chaos.

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KEVON FELMINE
Wed Aug 27 2025

3 Venezuelans held after robbing migrant couple

Three Venezue­lan im­mi­grants, who al­leged­ly in­vad­ed the home of an­oth­er mi­grant cou­ple in Debe on Mon­day night, are in po­lice cus­tody, af­ter be­ing caught short­ly af­ter the crime.

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KEVON FELMINE
Wed Aug 27 2025
Minister of Legal Affairs  Saddam Hosein

Minister of Legal Affairs Saddam Hosein

SHASTRI BOODAN

Queries on national engagement as stand-your-ground consultations near end

De­spite ear­li­er promis­es that con­sul­ta­tions on the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, will reach every con­stituen­cy, Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein could not con­firm yes­ter­day that ses­sions were held across the 13 Op­po­si­tion con­stituen­cies.

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Jesse Ramdeo
Wed Aug 27 2025
Minister of Education Dr Michael Dowlath

Minister of Education Dr Michael Dowlath

ROGER JACOB

Form 1 students to get laptops at end of September—Dowlath

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says Form One stu­dents will re­ceive their Gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops at the end of Sep­tem­ber.

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Carisa Lee
Wed Aug 27 2025
Road repair work along the Gran Couva Main Road at a standstill yesterday.

Road repair work along the Gran Couva Main Road at a standstill yesterday.

Shastri Boodan

Gran Couva farmers want answers on road repair work

For near­ly two years, farm­ers in Gran Cou­va have been liv­ing with the heart­break of watch­ing their liveli­hoods slip away with every pass­ing day that the Gran Cou­va Main Road re­mains in a di­lap­i­dat­ed con­di­tion.

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Shastri Boodan
Wed Aug 27 2025
The CCTV footage showing an armed intruder during an attempted home invasion at the Champs Fleurs residence of criminologist Ramesh Deosaran yesterday.

The CCTV footage showing an armed intruder during an attempted home invasion at the Champs Fleurs residence of criminologist Ramesh Deosaran yesterday.

Facebook

Criminologist urges Govt action after attempted daylight home invasion

Crim­i­nol­o­gist and for­mer chair of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC), Pro­fes­sor Ramesh De­osaran, is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to en­sure there are proac­tive crime-fight­ing mea­sures af­ter an at­tempt­ed home in­va­sion at his Champs Fleurs res­i­dence yes­ter­day morn­ing.

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Shane Superville
Wed Aug 27 2025
Fire Service Association president Keone Guy

Fire Service Association president Keone Guy

Association worried as Fire Service without deputy chief

The Fire Ser­vice is re­port­ed­ly fac­ing an un­prece­dent­ed lead­er­ship gap, due to the lack of a deputy chief fire of­fi­cer for al­most a month.

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Otto Carrington
Wed Aug 27 2025
Minister of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence Dominic Smith.

Minister of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence Dominic Smith.

COURTESY: OFFICE OF THE PARILAMENT

Minister rejects Barbados PM’s concerns about ‘recolonisation’ through AI

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Do­minic Smith, is re­ject­ing any as­ser­tion that Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence could lead to a new form of coloni­sa­tion in the Caribbean re­gion.

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Dareece Polo
Wed Aug 27 2025
People’s National Movement Political Leader and Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles speaks with a member of the public at Balisier House, Port-of-Spain.

People’s National Movement Political Leader and Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles speaks with a member of the public at Balisier House, Port-of-Spain.

People's National Movement/Facebook

Penny holds first public day at Balisier House

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has be­gun ful­fill­ing a pledge made dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) con­ven­tion in June to host reg­u­lar pub­lic days aimed at re­con­nect­ing with cit­i­zens.

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Dareece Polo
Wed Aug 27 2025
Special agents from the US Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) and the TTPS Transnational Organised Crime Unit (TOCU), together with a US Marshals Service (USMS) Task Force Officer (TFO), escort Tevin and Zakiya Williams at the Piarco International Airport, for their return to the United States to face drug trafficking and conspiracy charges.

Special agents from the US Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) and the TTPS Transnational Organised Crime Unit (TOCU), together with a US Marshals Service (USMS) Task Force Officer (TFO), escort Tevin and Zakiya Williams at the Piarco International Airport, for their return to the United States to face drug trafficking and conspiracy charges.

US Embassy in Port-of-Spain

US fugitives hiding in T&T deported to their homeland

Two Unit­ed States cit­i­zens want­ed in their coun­try on drug traf­fick­ing charges have been de­port­ed from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

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Wed Aug 27 2025
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