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Friday, August 1, 2025

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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
President of the Prisons' Officers Association Gerard Gordon

President of the Prisons' Officers Association Gerard Gordon

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Prison Officers’ Association warns against ‘broad-brush accusations’ amid 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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Akash Samaroo
Sat Jul 19 2025

Photo: Shastri Boodan

Government targets 1,800 nursing vacancies and high failure rate

The Gov­ern­ment is com­mit­ting to ad­dress crit­i­cal short­ages with­in the pub­lic health­care sys­tem, with a fo­cus on in­creas­ing nurs­ing per­son­nel and im­prov­ing pro­fes­sion­al out­comes. Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lakram Bo­doe an­nounced on Fri­day that ef­forts are un­der­way to fill 1,868 nurs­ing va­can­cies across the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs) in Trinidad.

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Shastri Boodan
Sat Jul 19 2025

Milan Markovic

Carapo man is first murder victim under SoE

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a shoot­ing around 12:48 am and found Barath. He was tak­en to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal, where doc­tors de­clared him dead on ar­rival.

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Jensen La Vende
Sat Jul 19 2025
Hall of Justice in Port of Spain.

Hall of Justice in Port of Spain.

Alleged gang leader loses court challenge to prison relocation

An al­leged gang leader has lost his le­gal chal­lenge over be­ing re­lo­cat­ed from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca, as law en­force­ment of­fi­cers be­gan ad­dress­ing the se­cu­ri­ty threat that trig­gered the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE) on Fri­day morn­ing.

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Derek Achong
Sat Jul 19 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar

ROGER JACOB

Gangsters under army control: PM says she won't let criminals terrorise T&T

Dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals who were tak­en from the na­tion’s pris­ons yes­ter­day un­der the new­ly im­ple­ment­ed State of Emer­gency, are now con­fined at mil­i­tary sites in Ch­aguara­mas.

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Sat Jul 19 2025
Attorney General John Jeremie addresses journalists during yesterday’s briefing at the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs in Port-of-Spain.

Attorney General John Jeremie addresses journalists during yesterday’s briefing at the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs in Port-of-Spain.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

AG Jeremie defends SoE: We had no alternative but to take decisive action

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie says the Gov­ern­ment had no al­ter­na­tive but to take “de­ci­sive ac­tion” to de­clare yes­ter­day’s State of Emer­gency (SoE), cit­ing a trou­bling spike in grue­some, gang-re­lat­ed crimes al­leged­ly or­ches­trat­ed by gang mem­bers from in­side the na­tion’s pris­ons.

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Sat Jul 19 2025
Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro displays his copy of the State of Emergency proclamation to media during yesterday’s media conference at the Police Administration Building, Port-of-Spain.

Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro displays his copy of the State of Emergency proclamation to media during yesterday’s media conference at the Police Administration Building, Port-of-Spain.

ANISTO ALVES

CoP: SoE needed to stop criminals organising hits on state officials from prison

In an­nounc­ing the move yes­ter­day, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said cred­i­ble in­tel­li­gence point­ing to the for­ma­tion of an or­gan­ised crime syn­di­cate specif­i­cal­ly look­ing to tar­get se­nior mem­bers of the State forced the de­ci­sion.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Sat Jul 19 2025
Former Prisons Commissioner Gerard Wilson

Former Prisons Commissioner Gerard Wilson

Mixed reactions to Government’s decision to call SoE

For­mer pris­ons com­mis­sion­er Ger­ard Wil­son says while there may be some mer­it for the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to de­clare a State of Emer­gency (SoE) to com­bat pow­er­ful un­der­world fig­ures, it should main­tain con­sis­tent pres­sure on these crim­i­nals on a more con­sis­tent ba­sis.

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Shane Superville
Sat Jul 19 2025
THA Chief Secretary  Farley Augustine

THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine

Farley calls for ‘radical response’ to crime during SoE

His stance is a sharp con­trast to the po­si­tion he took when the last SoE was called in De­cem­ber 2024.

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Elizabeth Gonzales & Kejan Haynes
Sat Jul 19 2025
THA Minority Leader  Kelvon Morris

THA Minority Leader Kelvon Morris

COURTESY: Assembly Legislature, Tobago House of Assembly

Morris: SoE creates economic uncertainty

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris says the new State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­clared yes­ter­day morn­ing deals a harsh blow to To­ba­go’s al­ready strug­gling tourism sec­tor. He be­lieves the is­land, which is see­ing a re­duc­tion in crime, has been thrown in­to what he de­scribes as a storm.

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Elizabeth Gonzales
Sat Jul 19 2025
A view of Scarborough, Tobago

A view of Scarborough, Tobago

Tourism group urges tourists not to cancel travel plans to Tobago

The To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) says To­ba­go is still open, safe, and ready to wel­come vis­i­tors, de­spite the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency yes­ter­day.

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Elizabeth Gonzales
Sat Jul 19 2025
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