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Friday, July 25, 2025

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Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen

Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen

ANISTO ALVES

URP RED FLAG ... Minister Ameen, PNM clash over claims of feeding frenzy in social programme

Al­le­ga­tions of deep-root­ed cor­rup­tion with­in the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) have sparked po­lit­i­cal con­tro­ver­sy. This, af­ter Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen ac­cused the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion of turn­ing the ini­tia­tive in­to a “feed­ing fren­zy” for friends, fam­i­ly mem­bers, and fi­nanciers.

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Jesse Ramdeo
Mon Jul 14 2025
Labour Minister Leroy Baptiste

Labour Minister Leroy Baptiste

Labour Minister concerned about recent job loses

Min­is­ter of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment Leroy Bap­tiste says any work­er who los­es his or her job is a con­cern to him.

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GEISHA KOWLESSAR ALONZO
Mon Jul 14 2025
Members of the Retrench Farmers’ Association protest at Retrench Village, San Fernando, yesterday, calling on the authorities to investigate a contractor accused of bulldozing their crops and farmland.

Members of the Retrench Farmers’ Association protest at Retrench Village, San Fernando, yesterday, calling on the authorities to investigate a contractor accused of bulldozing their crops and farmland.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Farmers allege land grabbing at Retrench Estate

Farm­ers on the Re­trench Es­tate in San Fer­nan­do are call­ing for a for­mal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to what they de­scribe as land grab­bing by a pri­vate con­trac­tor al­leged­ly linked to a for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter.

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Mon Jul 14 2025
Chaguanas Mayor Faaiq Mohammed

Chaguanas Mayor Faaiq Mohammed

Local Govt Ministry says no projects stalled due to funding woes

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has re­ject­ed claims that any project plans have stalled due to a lack of prop­er­ty tax funds.

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Mon Jul 14 2025
Malisa Harrykissoon tends to her crop of tomatoes at her farm in Mon Desir, South Oropouche.

Malisa Harrykissoon tends to her crop of tomatoes at her farm in Mon Desir, South Oropouche.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Rampaging bison destroy crops in South Oropouche

Ram­pag­ing bi­son are de­stroy­ing crops and threat­en­ing liveli­hoods in Berridge Trace, South Oropouche, where a group of farm­ers say they are los­ing thou­sands of dol­lars in pro­duce.

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Mon Jul 14 2025
 Holding a few of her many trophies, top SEA pupil Sandhya  Maharaj is embraced by her proud parents,  Suri Seegobin-Maharaj and father Keshan Dev Maharaj, at their home.

Holding a few of her many trophies, top SEA pupil Sandhya Maharaj is embraced by her proud parents, Suri Seegobin-Maharaj and father Keshan Dev Maharaj, at their home.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Top SEA student wants exam banished

... says children should not be depressed during this period in their lives

De­spite top­ping the na­tion in the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) and earn­ing a place at her first-choice school, Na­pari­ma Girls’ High, Sand­hya Di­vya Ma­haraj is call­ing for the abo­li­tion of the ex­am she just con­quered.

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Mon Jul 14 2025
Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) top SEA performer Navya Seenath (Sangre Grande Hindu School), centre, with third-placed Nathan Chotack (El Dorado South Hindu Primary) and second- placed Tiana Maharaj (Munroe Road Hindu School) at the SDMS SEA Awards Function at the Lakshmi Girls’ Hindu College Auditorium, St Augustine, yesterday.

Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) top SEA performer Navya Seenath (Sangre Grande Hindu School), centre, with third-placed Nathan Chotack (El Dorado South Hindu Primary) and second- placed Tiana Maharaj (Munroe Road Hindu School) at the SDMS SEA Awards Function at the Lakshmi Girls’ Hindu College Auditorium, St Augustine, yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

SDMS honours 129 top SEA performers

While the re­sults of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions have been out for well over a week now, the ex­cite­ment is still very much in the air for thou­sands of stu­dents, es­pe­cial­ly those still beam­ing with ex­cite­ment from their ex­cel­lent re­sults.

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KAY-MARIE FLETCHER
Mon Jul 14 2025
Canadian High Commissioner Michael Callan speaks during CNC3’s The Big Interview with Ryan Bachoo last night.

Canadian High Commissioner Michael Callan speaks during CNC3’s The Big Interview with Ryan Bachoo last night.

Canadian High Commissioner keen to deepen ties with T&T

As this coun­try con­tin­ues to grap­ple with crime, Cana­da’s High Com­mis­sion­er to T&T, Michael Callan, is re­it­er­at­ing his coun­try’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing se­cu­ri­ty ties.

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GEISHA KOWLESSAR ALONZO
Mon Jul 14 2025
Kristopher Mohamed

Kristopher Mohamed

RISHI RAGONATH

Kristopher’s brave battle against stage four cancer

Even now, as he en­dures the pain of stage four Hodgkin’s Lym­phoma, 19-year-old Kristo­pher Mo­hamed is think­ing about oth­ers.

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Mon Jul 14 2025
Mervyn Baisden organises stacks of used school books on High Street, San Fernando. The books tower more than four feet high, but Baisden says he relies on memory alone to keep track of their order and location when serving customers.

Mervyn Baisden organises stacks of used school books on High Street, San Fernando. The books tower more than four feet high, but Baisden says he relies on memory alone to keep track of their order and location when serving customers.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Street bookseller offers parents a lifeline

In a nar­row pas­sage be­tween two build­ings on High Street, San Fer­nan­do, 42-year-old Mervyn Bais­den has built a book­stall that sup­plies sec­ond-hand school­books to stu­dents across Trinidad.

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Mon Jul 14 2025

Man shoots relative during argument over property

One man has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the shoot­ing of a rel­a­tive dur­ing an ar­gu­ment.

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KAY-MARIE FLETCHER
Mon Jul 14 2025
Barrackpore Dawah Foundation chairman Menan Deosaran, left, chats with Sustainable Climate Resistance Initiative chairman Edward Moodie at the start of yesterday’s CERT training programme in Barrackpore.

Barrackpore Dawah Foundation chairman Menan Deosaran, left, chats with Sustainable Climate Resistance Initiative chairman Edward Moodie at the start of yesterday’s CERT training programme in Barrackpore.

Shastri Boodan

10 years to fix flooding woes in Barrackpore, says environmentalist

It could take up to ten years to re­solve the per­sis­tent flood­ing af­fect­ing res­i­dents of the South Oropouche Basin, ac­cord­ing to a com­mu­ni­ty en­vi­ron­men­tal­ist.

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Mon Jul 14 2025
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