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Friday, November 7, 2025

Opinion

Dr Radica Mahase

Dr Radica Mahase

Courtesy Dr Radica Mahase

The smiles that hide the pain

A few weeks ago, while I was across the world, I re­ceived a mes­sage that one of my for­mer stu­dents had died by sui­cide. He was a stu­dent I ad­mired deeply. Not be­cause he worked con­sis­tent­ly and dili­gent­ly to get a grade A in my course, but be­cause for an en­tire year, I in­ter­act­ed with him out­side of the class­room. He worked as a life­guard at a pool where I swam reg­u­lar­ly.

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Dr Radica Mahase
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Chad  “Charpo” Joseph

Chad “Charpo” Joseph

Relatives of men believed killed in US strike finally report them missing to cops

Two weeks af­ter a memo­r­i­al ser­vice was held for one of two Trinida­di­an fish­er­men be­lieved to have been killed dur­ing a US airstrike in the Gulf of Paria, rel­a­tives of both men have now filed miss­ing per­sons’ re­ports with the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Nov 03 2025
Fire officers on the scene of a house fire on Prizgar Road, San Juan, yesterday.

Fire officers on the scene of a house fire on Prizgar Road, San Juan, yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

San Juan home gutted by fire; family blames faulty gas tank

A San Juan fam­i­ly, whose house was de­stroyed by fire yes­ter­day, has joined the grow­ing list of per­sons blam­ing faulty and leak­ing gas tanks for their loss.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Nov 03 2025
The lane yesterday where Angelo Leandre and Jeremiah Britto were shot at Sun Valley Extension Road, La Canoa Road, Santa Cruz, on Saturday.

The lane yesterday where Angelo Leandre and Jeremiah Britto were shot at Sun Valley Extension Road, La Canoa Road, Santa Cruz, on Saturday.

ANISTO ALVES

2 killed in Santa Cruz gun attack

The com­mu­ni­ty of Sun Val­ley Ex­ten­sion at La Canoa Road in Low­er San­ta Cruz re­mained qui­et yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing a shoot­ing on Sat­ur­day night which claimed the lives of two men.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Nov 03 2025
Former National Extempo Monarch Brian London interacts with students at  Skinner Park, San Fernando, on Saturday.

Former National Extempo Monarch Brian London interacts with students at Skinner Park, San Fernando, on Saturday.

VASHTI SINGH

TUCO seeks funding to expand Calypso Workshop

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) South Cen­tral Zone is ap­peal­ing for sup­port to ex­pand its Ca­lyp­so Work­shop for young peo­ple, in an at­tempt to pre­serve one of the old­est cul­tur­al art forms in the coun­try.

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Mon Nov 03 2025
Victoria Deonarine in training. 

Victoria Deonarine in training. 

COURTESY: VICTORIA DEONARINE

Teen Trini freediver aims to make history

... but needs help in going after feat in Dominica

At just 18, Vic­to­ria Aman­da De­onar­ine has al­ready gone deep­er than most ever will—both in wa­ter and in am­bi­tion.

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Mon Nov 03 2025
FILE: Police officers conduct searches at the Masjid Al Jabal in the Heights of Guanapo during an SoE exercise in July.

FILE: Police officers conduct searches at the Masjid Al Jabal in the Heights of Guanapo during an SoE exercise in July.

Experts hope TTPS can sustain SoE momentum

The an­nounce­ment that the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will be ex­tend­ed in­to 2026 has been well re­ceived by at least one se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert, who is now ap­peal­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to use the time to iden­ti­fy its goals for the next six months, while a sec­ond has as­cribed the SoE a “pass­ing grade.”

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Thu Oct 30 2025
Acting Chief Fire Officer Andy Hutchingson, left, speaks with Rapid Relief Team memeber Daryl Corbin during the Rapid Relief Team Appreciation Day for first responders at the Fire Service Headquarters, Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain, on Saturday.

Acting Chief Fire Officer Andy Hutchingson, left, speaks with Rapid Relief Team memeber Daryl Corbin during the Rapid Relief Team Appreciation Day for first responders at the Fire Service Headquarters, Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain, on Saturday.

ANISTO ALVES

Acting Chief Fire Officer hopes Govt will fill resource gaps

Act­ing Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Andy Hutchin­son says he is hop­ing Gov­ern­ment will ad­dress the re­source and equip­ment needs of the T&T Fire Ser­vice, as it is con­tin­u­ing to af­fect the morale of his fire­fight­ers.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Sun Nov 02 2025
Minister of Education Dr Michael Dowlath

Minister of Education Dr Michael Dowlath

COURTESY:OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT

Minister: AI-enabled laptops coming by end of November

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has an­nounced that gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops for sec­ondary school stu­dents will be dis­trib­uted by the end of No­vem­ber.

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Mon Nov 03 2025
The marijuana seized during an antI-crime exercise in Trincity on Saturday.

The marijuana seized during an antI-crime exercise in Trincity on Saturday.

COURTESY:TTPS

Cops seize $11M in ganja after suspect abandons car at mall

Po­lice of­fi­cers are con­tin­u­ing the search for a known sus­pect who aban­doned a car con­tain­ing over $11 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na in Trinci­ty on Sat­ur­day.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Mon Nov 03 2025

CRIME BRIEFS

Armed bandits rob KFC outlet

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an armed rob­bery at a fast food out­let in Freeport on Sat­ur­day night.

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Mon Nov 03 2025

Field hospital for Jamaican town destroyed by Melissa

Health Min­is­ter Dr Christo­pher Tufton says a field hos­pi­tal is sched­uled to ar­rive with­in the next 24 hours for de­ploy­ment to the town of Black Riv­er in the south­ern parish of St. Eliz­a­beth.

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Sun Nov 02 2025
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth answers a question from a reporter during a roundtable on criminal cartels in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth answers a question from a reporter during a roundtable on criminal cartels in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Evan Vucci

US carries out new strike in Caribbean, killing 3 alleged drug smugglers

The U.S. mil­i­tary has car­ried out an­oth­er lethal strike on al­leged drug smug­glers in the Caribbean Sea, De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth an­nounced Sat­ur­day.

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Sun Nov 02 2025
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