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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Opinion

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GUARDIAN

Probe continues into shooting death of Tobago pensioner Frank Sandy

Po­lice are still in­ves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing death of 74-year-old Frank Alan Sandy, who was killed by an off-du­ty of­fi­cer in Mt St George, To­ba­go.

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Elizabeth Gonzales
Tue Jun 17 2025

Man shot while washing car in Carnbee

A 35-year-old man is in sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter be­ing shot while wash­ing his car in Carn­bee last night.

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Elizabeth Gonzales
Tue Jun 17 2025
U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Charlie Franta and Minister of Health Dr. Lackram Bodoe at the donation of medical supplies to the Ministry of Health, on Tuesday 17 June 2025.  [Image courtesy U.S. Embassy Port-of-Spain]

U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Charlie Franta and Minister of Health Dr. Lackram Bodoe at the donation of medical supplies to the Ministry of Health, on Tuesday 17 June 2025. [Image courtesy U.S. Embassy Port-of-Spain]

U.S. Embassy Port-of-Spain

U.S. donates US$207K in medical supplies to Health Ministry

Some US$207,000 (TT$1,404,820.82) worth of med­ical sup­plies have been do­nat­ed by the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment to this coun­try’s Min­istry of Health.

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
Tue Jun 17 2025
FILE- Deacon Roy Raghunanan carries the Holy Eucharist during The Feast of Corpus Christi procession in San Fernando,  as Fr David Khan walks behind him yesterday.

FILE- Deacon Roy Raghunanan carries the Holy Eucharist during The Feast of Corpus Christi procession in San Fernando, as Fr David Khan walks behind him yesterday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Corpus Christi and Labour Day create extra long weekend

The Gov­ern­ment has de­clared Fri­day 20 June, a pub­lic hol­i­day, fol­low­ing the ob­ser­vance of both Cor­pus Christi and Labour Day on Thurs­day 19 June.

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Tue Jun 17 2025

Residents catch thieves in Point Fortin bush chase

Res­i­dents of Salazar Trace, Point Fortin, ap­pre­hend­ed two rob­bery sus­pects over the week­end af­ter their neigh­bour raised the alarm.

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Tue Jun 17 2025

St. Lucia government signs agreement with labour unions

The St. Lu­cia gov­ern­ment says it has “suc­cess­ful­ly” signed col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ments (CBAs) with sev­en of the nine pub­lic sec­tor unions and staff as­so­ci­a­tions, which will re­sult in pub­lic sec­tor work­ers re­ceiv­ing salary in­creas­es of two per cent an­nu­al­ly with­in the 2022–2025 pe­ri­od.

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Tue Jun 17 2025
Smoke billows after an Iranian missile struck an oil refinery in Haifa, northern Israel, early Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Smoke billows after an Iranian missile struck an oil refinery in Haifa, northern Israel, early Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Ariel Schalit

Israel’s strikes against Tehran broaden as Trump issues ominous warning

Is­rael ap­peared to be ex­pand­ing its air cam­paign against Tehran five days af­ter its sur­prise at­tack on Iran’s mil­i­tary and nu­clear pro­gram, as U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump post­ed an omi­nous mes­sage warn­ing res­i­dents of the cap­i­tal to evac­u­ate.

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Tue Jun 17 2025
Chairman of the Standing Finance Committee Jagdeo Singh at yesterday's meeting in Parliament.

Chairman of the Standing Finance Committee Jagdeo Singh at yesterday's meeting in Parliament.

COURTESY: OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT

SFC chairman apologises to PNM MP for “disrespectful” comment

Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee (SFC) chair­man Jagdeo Singh yes­ter­day is­sued a for­mal apol­o­gy to Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle, af­ter be­ing ac­cused by Op­po­si­tion mem­bers of mak­ing a dis­re­spect­ful and in­ap­pro­pri­ate re­mark dur­ing the pro­ceed­ings.

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Dareece Polo
Tue Jun 17 2025
Widow Support TT president Soraya Nanan, left, and vice president Annmarie Hassanali, right, present a hamper to Geneive Pierre at the South Oropouche Community Centre yesterday. Pierre is now staying at the facility after her South Oropouche home collapsed.

Widow Support TT president Soraya Nanan, left, and vice president Annmarie Hassanali, right, present a hamper to Geneive Pierre at the South Oropouche Community Centre yesterday. Pierre is now staying at the facility after her South Oropouche home collapsed.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Support group calls for more help for women

Wid­ow Sup­port TT is call­ing for an in­crease in the wid­ow’s grant and stronger sup­port for women who, af­ter los­ing their hus­bands, are forced to fight cost­ly prop­er­ty bat­tles—with some even fac­ing gun vi­o­lence in their strug­gle to keep their fam­i­ly homes.

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Tue Jun 17 2025
Vybz Kartel

Vybz Kartel

Tancoo says Kartel US payment still under probe

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the sub­stan­tial for­eign ex­change pay­ment made to Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer re­mains on­go­ing and ac­tive.

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Jesse Ramdeo
Tue Jun 17 2025
Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander

Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander

COURTESY:OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT

Alexander hopes for rollout of 3,000 body cams by year’s end

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has con­firmed that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 3,000 body cam­eras have been re­quest­ed for full de­ploy­ment across law en­force­ment agen­cies. He not­ed that, as of now, 970 body cam­eras are in ac­tive use by mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

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Dareece Polo
Tue Jun 17 2025
Minister of Justice Devesh Maharaj, left, and an official from the Tax Appeal Board at yesterday’s Standing Finance Committee Meeting in Parliament.

Minister of Justice Devesh Maharaj, left, and an official from the Tax Appeal Board at yesterday’s Standing Finance Committee Meeting in Parliament.

COURTESY:OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT

AG’s Office gets $89.5M for rising costs

Mount­ing le­gal bills and a spike in white-col­lar crim­i­nal lit­i­ga­tion have prompt­ed the Gov­ern­ment to re­quest an ad­di­tion­al $89,492,221 for the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs.

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Dareece Polo
Tue Jun 17 2025
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