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Friday, July 4, 2025

Opinion

False promises create the illusion of progress

Last week, I had the ho­n­our to share and con­nect with two good friends and fel­low schol­ars, Pro­fes­sor Yuri Clement, Deputy Dean at the Fac­ul­ty of Med­ical Sci­ences, UWI, and Dr Kirk Good­en, one of the lead urol­o­gists in the re­gion and part-time lec­tur­er at UWI. We shared at a men’s health sem­i­nar host­ed by the AE­BC group of church­es. A suc­cess­ful event in­deed. Hats off to my broth­er Mike Brad­shaw and the AE­BC men’s com­mit­tee for co­or­di­nat­ing and host­ing.

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Flossie has strengthened into a hurricane off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Flossie became a Category 1 hurricane Monday night with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.

Flossie has strengthened into a hurricane off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Flossie became a Category 1 hurricane Monday night with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.

Hurricane Flossie strengthens further off Mexico’s Pacific coast

Hur­ri­cane Flossie has con­tin­ued to strength­en off Mex­i­co’s south­west­ern Pa­cif­ic coast with max­i­mum sus­tained winds of 140 kph (85 mph), ac­cord­ing to the U.S. Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter in Mi­a­mi.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Sangre Grande Police Station

Sangre Grande Police Station

CoC delays mount as Sangre Grande printer breaks down

Po­lice have con­firmed a per­sis­tent is­sue af­fect­ing the pro­cess­ing of Cer­tifi­cates of Char­ac­ter (CoC), par­tic­u­lar­ly at the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion, where the ma­chine used for print­ing the cer­tifi­cates has been out of ser­vice for an ex­tend­ed pe­ri­od.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
File photo: A Caribbean Airlines ATR 72-600 at Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport. (Photo courtesy Brent Pinheiro.)

File photo: A Caribbean Airlines ATR 72-600 at Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport. (Photo courtesy Brent Pinheiro.)

Farley hails late-night CAL flights as win for Tobago

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is to­day cel­e­brat­ing Caribbean Air­lines’ de­ci­sion to re-in­tro­duce a late-night do­mes­tic flight be­tween Trinidad & To­ba­go. 

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Brent Pinheiro
Tue Jul 01 2025

Barrackpore man beaten in home invasion

Re­ports stat­ed the man was in the kitchen of his home short­ly af­ter 8 pm when three masked sus­pects ac­cost­ed him. One of them then struck him sev­er­al times on his head,

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Tue Jul 01 2025

PH driver hijacked in La Brea

A 33-year-old "PH" taxi dri­ver man­aged to es­cape un­hurt af­ter be­ing hi­jacked in La Brea by two gun­men.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Crab catcher Jerard Babwah, left, and a resident display crab traps affected by the oil spill in the mangrove at the Marabella train line, Sunday.

Crab catcher Jerard Babwah, left, and a resident display crab traps affected by the oil spill in the mangrove at the Marabella train line, Sunday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Marabella oil spill cleanup almost complete says Heritage

Clean-up ac­tiv­i­ties fol­low­ing a hy­dro­car­bon leak in the riv­er course from Tarou­ba to Mara­bel­la are al­most com­plet­ed, con­firmed Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd, in a press re­lease yes­ter­day.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Theon Morales, owner of Brews on D Road, walks along Trincity Central Road, ready to serve morning commuters.

Theon Morales, owner of Brews on D Road, walks along Trincity Central Road, ready to serve morning commuters.

CHE TEEKERSINGH

Brewing up innovation and inspiration

We’ve all been stuck in traf­fic at some point; some of us more of­ten than oth­ers. Dur­ing peak hours, when you’re run­ning low on sleep and the ed­i­ble kind of fu­el, time seems to crawl even slow­er. How­ev­er, one Arou­ca man is hop­ing to change that—by perk­ing up com­muters’ morn­ings and mak­ing their dai­ly crawl a lit­tle more brew-ti­ful.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
CEPEP Company Limited, General Manager, Keith Eddy

CEPEP Company Limited, General Manager, Keith Eddy

CEPEP betrayal

Fired workers dazed, scared; beg Govt to reconsider move

Sev­er­al for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers who went to the com­pa­ny’s head­quar­ters in Ste Madeleine seek­ing an­swers yes­ter­day, were left dis­ap­point­ed, feel­ing be­trayed and un­cer­tain about their fu­ture.

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Sascha Wilson & Chester Sambrano
Tue Jul 01 2025
NATUC general secretary  Michael Annisette

NATUC general secretary Michael Annisette

ABRAHAM DIAZ

NATUC urges Govt to absorb CEPEP workers pending reform exercise

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) is stand­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with over 10,500 ter­mi­nat­ed Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers. Fur­ther­more, it is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to ab­sorb the work­ers in­to the ex­ist­ing con­trac­tu­al frame­work of the com­pa­ny un­til it re­solves is­sues it has high­light­ed.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Senate President Wade Mark

Senate President Wade Mark

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Mark issues a stern warning in defence of Senators

‘Intimidation, harassment wont be taken lightly’

Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark is­sued a stern warn­ing to mem­bers of the Up­per House yes­ter­day that words or ac­tions that cross the line in­to ha­rass­ment, in­tim­i­da­tion, or at­tempts to shame sen­a­tors for how they vote, or to pres­sure them to vote in a par­tic­u­lar way, will not be tol­er­at­ed or tak­en light­ly.

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Tue Jul 01 2025
Government Senators during the debate on the Prime Minister’s Pension Amendment Bill yesterday.

Government Senators during the debate on the Prime Minister’s Pension Amendment Bill yesterday.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

No PM’s benefit for Young

Senate passes changes to pension bill with help from Independents

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young will not be re­ceiv­ing a prime min­is­te­r­i­al pen­sion, af­ter the Sen­ate yes­ter­day ap­proved the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, which now sets a min­i­mum one-year term in of­fice for any prime min­is­ter to qual­i­fy for a State pen­sion. The bill al­so has a tiered pay­ment struc­ture based on time served. Cru­cial­ly, the bill ap­plies retroac­tive­ly from March 10, 2025, com­plete­ly dis­qual­i­fy­ing Young, who served from March 17 to April 28.

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Kejan Haynes & Gail Alexander
Tue Jul 01 2025
Prof Hamid Ghany

Prof Hamid Ghany

Analysts agree with Govt concerns over Independent Senators

Two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts are back­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s con­cerns about the so-called in­de­pen­dence of sen­a­tors ap­point­ed by the Pres­i­dent. But a for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor who faced the re­buke of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer, Dr Kirk Meighoo, is dis­miss­ing his crit­i­cism as base­less.

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Dareece Polo
Tue Jul 01 2025
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