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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Opinion

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Antigua and Barbuda implements gun amnesty

The An­tigua and Bar­bu­da gov­ern­ment is urg­ing peo­ple to take full ad­van­tage of a gun amnesty that be­gins on Mon­day and ends at the end of the month, says it rep­re­sents an­oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ty for peo­ple to hand over un­law­ful firearms.

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Mon Apr 07 2025

Trump threatens more tariffs on China as global markets plunge

Un­de­terred by a stock mar­ket col­lapse that has con­tin­ued for days, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump threat­ened ad­di­tion­al tar­iffs on Chi­na on Mon­day, rais­ing fresh con­cerns that his dri­ve to re­bal­ance the glob­al econ­o­my could in­ten­si­fy a fi­nan­cial­ly de­struc­tive trade war.

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Mon Apr 07 2025

THA calls for 24 Hours of Silence ahead of SEA Exams

With SEA ex­ams just days away, the THA's Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy of (DERTech) is ask­ing all po­lit­i­cal par­ties and their sup­port­ers to shut off the noise.

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Mon Apr 07 2025
MP David Lee poses with his lawyer Mario Merritt after being freed of two fraud charges related to his vehicle tax exemption as an MP.

MP David Lee poses with his lawyer Mario Merritt after being freed of two fraud charges related to his vehicle tax exemption as an MP.

David Lee cleared of charges

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader and can­di­date for Ca­roni Cen­tral, David Lee, has been cleared of fraud charges re­lat­ed to tax ex­emp­tions on his ve­hi­cle as a Par­lia­men­tar­i­an.

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Derek Achong
Mon Apr 07 2025
Joanne Estick

Joanne Estick

Charges laid against men in the case of beheaded Siparia woman

An un­cle and nephew have been charged with the mur­der of Joanne Estick, a Siparia woman whose sev­ered head was found in a cool­er.

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Mon Apr 07 2025
Photo: Digital anthropologist Daren Dhoray (Photo courtesy the UWI.)

Photo: Digital anthropologist Daren Dhoray (Photo courtesy the UWI.)

Citizens warned to look out for AI use during election campaigns

As Trinidad and To­ba­go pre­pares for its up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, a lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy ex­pert is rais­ing red flags about the grow­ing role of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in po­lit­i­cal cam­paign­ing.

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Jesse Ramdeo
Mon Apr 07 2025

CEPEP condemns fake memo, denies claims of pressure on workers

This time, it fol­lows a post by the Face­book page Kick out the PNM, which al­leged that CEPEP work­ers were “strong­ly ad­vised” to at­tend po­lit­i­cal events where the Prime Min­is­ter would be present.

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Kejan Haynes
Mon Apr 07 2025

ASJA distances itself from political views

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) is dis­tanc­ing it­self from po­lit­i­cal com­ments made by some Imams and says those views should be clear­ly pre­sent­ed as per­son­al opin­ions, not of­fi­cial po­si­tions.

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Mon Apr 07 2025

Eighth malaria case confirmed in south Trinidad

Health of­fi­cials have con­firmed an eighth case of malar­ia in Trinidad and To­ba­go for 2025, fol­low­ing en­hanced sur­veil­lance ef­forts in south Trinidad.

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Mon Apr 07 2025
Mark Loquan

Mark Loquan

SHIRLEY BAHADUR

Energy Chamber mourns passing of former president

The En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad & To­ba­go has joined the na­tion in mourn­ing the pass­ing of Mark Lo­quan, a past mem­ber of the En­er­gy Cham­ber's Board, re­fer­ring to him as "a dis­tin­guished leader of the na­tion­al and glob­al en­er­gy in­dus­try."

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Mon Apr 07 2025
Photo courtesy CANA

Photo courtesy CANA

Dominican Republic tightens its borders with Haiti

Pres­i­dent of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Luis Abi­nad­er, has an­nounced a se­ries of mea­sures aimed at bol­ster­ing bor­der se­cu­ri­ty and tight­en­ing mi­gra­tion con­trol as its neigh­bour, Haiti, con­tin­ues to be faced with po­lit­i­cal and se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

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Mon Apr 07 2025
A person walks past an electronic stock board in Tokyo Monday, April 7, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

A person walks past an electronic stock board in Tokyo Monday, April 7, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Uncredited

World stock markets plunge again as Trump doubles down on tariffs

Glob­al stock mar­kets ex­tend­ed a se­vere plunge Mon­day, fu­eled by fears that U.S. tar­iffs would lead to a glob­al eco­nom­ic slow­down. Eu­ro­pean and Asian shares saw dra­mat­ic loss­es, the lead­ing U.S. in­dex flirt­ed with bear mar­ket ter­ri­to­ry in pre-mar­ket trad­ing, and oil prices sagged.

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Mon Apr 07 2025
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