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Friday, July 25, 2025

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Attorney General John Jeremie

Attorney General John Jeremie

ABRAHAM DIAZ

AG faces legal threat over prisoner’s transfer

Hours af­ter the at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali were de­nied an ap­pli­ca­tion to have him trans­ferred to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, they threat­ened to take At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie to court.

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Jensen La Vende and Derek Achong
Sun Jul 20 2025
Former prisons commissioner Gerard Wilson

Former prisons commissioner Gerard Wilson

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Cellphone smuggling is prison system’s biggest challenge–Ex-commissioner

Cell­phones be­hind bars and con­tract killings or­dered by in­mates have plagued Trinidad and To­ba­go’s prison sys­tem. From chron­ic over­crowd­ing and poor in­fra­struc­ture to lim­it­ed re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and staff short­ages, the prison sys­tem is break­ing down from with­in.

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Shaliza Hassanali
Sun Jul 20 2025
A prison officer directs traffic to allow a Prison Service vehicle to exit the Port-of-Spain Prison on Friday.

A prison officer directs traffic to allow a Prison Service vehicle to exit the Port-of-Spain Prison on Friday.

ROBERTO CODALLO

More than $5B spent on prisons since 2016

More than $5.2 bil­lion was al­lo­cat­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s prison sys­tem be­tween 2016 and 2023, ac­cord­ing to Guardian Me­dia In­ves­tiga­tive Desk’s cal­cu­la­tions.

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Joshua Seemungal
Sun Jul 20 2025
Tony Rakhal-Fraser

Tony Rakhal-Fraser

Sparrow off-stage—but was he ever?

I wind up this se­ries, writ­ten in recog­ni­tion and ho­n­our of the great­ness of the Ca­lyp­so King of the World, Slinger Fran­cis­co, the Mighty Spar­row, on his 90th birth­day, plac­ing the fo­cus on his off-stage con­tri­bu­tions. But then again, Spar­row has al­ways been in the glare of so­ci­ety in what­ev­er he has done since his 1956 Jean and Di­nah, Rosi­ta and Clementi­na; he has nev­er left the bright lights.  

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Tony Rakhal-Fraser
Sun Jul 20 2025
File: Prison Officers’ Association president Gerard Gordon

File: Prison Officers’ Association president Gerard Gordon

KERWIN PIERRE

Prison Officers’ Association has mixed feelings about SoE

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) is cau­tion­ing against what it de­scribes as “broad-brush ac­cu­sa­tions” in the wake of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), stress­ing that the vast ma­jor­i­ty of prison of­fi­cers serve with in­tegri­ty and should not be un­fair­ly ma­ligned.

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Sun Jul 20 2025
Patriotic Front Political Leader Mickela Panday

Patriotic Front Political Leader Mickela Panday

RISHI RAGOONATH

SoE backlash as UNC accused of repackaging failed PNM strategy

Three po­lit­i­cal par­ties are ques­tion­ing how the UNC could cam­paign on promis­es to fight crime, yet now re­sort to what they de­scribe as old and failed PNM tac­tics, such as de­clar­ing a State of Emer­gency (SoE).

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Sun Jul 20 2025
San Fernando East MP Brian Manning

San Fernando East MP Brian Manning

RISHI RAGOONATH

PNM MP distributes hampers amid CEPEP, URP job losses

With thou­sands now on the bread­line fol­low­ing the ter­mi­na­tion of con­tracts un­der the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­ment Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), and the Forestry Di­vi­sion, San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning is call­ing for more sup­port for those who have been left job­less.

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Sascha Wilson
Sun Jul 20 2025
Health Minister Dr Lackram Bodoe, left, greets UWI School of Nursing graduates Osaigbokan Erharuyi and Rokena Elder.

Health Minister Dr Lackram Bodoe, left, greets UWI School of Nursing graduates Osaigbokan Erharuyi and Rokena Elder.

Shastri Boodan

Govt to fill 1,868 nursing vacancies across RHAs

The Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to tack­le crit­i­cal staff short­ages in the pub­lic health­care sys­tem, with a par­tic­u­lar fo­cus on boost­ing nurs­ing num­bers and im­prov­ing pro­fes­sion­al out­comes.

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Shastri Boodan
Sun Jul 20 2025

Police seize high-powered rifle and pistol in separate SoE raids

Po­lice have seized two il­le­gal firearms, in­clud­ing a high-pow­ered ri­fle, dur­ing op­er­a­tions in Co­corite and Point Fortin un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

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Chester Sambrano
Sat Jul 19 2025

Police make 56 arrests in first 24 hours of SoE

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed 56 peo­ple, re­cov­ered six il­le­gal firearms, and de­tect­ed more than 400 traf­fic of­fences dur­ing the first 24 hours of the State of Emer­gency, which took ef­fect from mid­night on Fri­day 18 Ju­ly 2025.

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Chester Sambrano
Sat Jul 19 2025
Patriotic Front political leader Mickela Panday

Patriotic Front political leader Mickela Panday

RISHI RAGOONATH

Parties slam SoE as failed and recycled tactic

Three po­lit­i­cal par­ties are ques­tion­ing how the UNC could cam­paign on promis­es to fight crime, on­ly to now adopt what they de­scribe as old and failed PNM tac­tics—specif­i­cal­ly the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE).

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Akas Samaroo
Sat Jul 19 2025

Photo: Shastri Boodan

Enterprise man killed in shootout with police

Re­ports say mem­bers of the Ch­agua­nas Task Force chased an En­ter­prise man who had stolen a red Nis­san Ti­i­da parked at the side of the road.

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Shastri Boodan
Sat Jul 19 2025
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