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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Opinion

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Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi refutes smear campaign allegations 

Lons­dale Saatchi & Saatchi Ad­ver­tis­ing Lim­it­ed, along with its Ex­ec­u­tive Chair­man, Ken­rick At­tale, are cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­fut­ing what it calls the base­less and defam­a­to­ry al­le­ga­tions made by the “Kick Out the PNM” Face­book page.

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Tue Apr 01 2025
Photo courtesy WASA

Photo courtesy WASA

WASA condemns acts of vandalism and theft in Gasparillo

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has strong­ly con­demned the re­cent acts of van­dal­ism and theft tar­get­ing its in­fra­struc­ture in the Gas­par­il­lo area, which have se­vere­ly dis­rupt­ed wa­ter sup­ply to sev­er­al res­i­dents.

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Tue Apr 01 2025
Photos courtesy TTPS

Photos courtesy TTPS

Four held, firearm, ammunition and cannabis seized

Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and one firearm and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed across sev­er­al di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

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Tue Apr 01 2025
Rudy Indarsingh.

Rudy Indarsingh.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Indarsingh recommits to UNC after Couva South rejection 

Out­go­ing Cou­va South MP Rudranath In­dars­ingh has reaf­firmed his com­mit­ment to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress even as he has not been cho­sen to con­test the seat in the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion on April 28.

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Tue Apr 01 2025
Audrey Marks, Photo courtesy CANA

Audrey Marks, Photo courtesy CANA

Jamaican government minister among AFUWI honorees for 2025

The New York-based Amer­i­can Foun­da­tion for the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (AFUWI) says that for­mer Ja­maica Am­bas­sador to the Unit­ed States and the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS)  Au­drey Marks, will be among hon­orees for its 28th An­nu­al Schol­ar­ship Awards Gala, The Lega­cy Con­tin­ues, this week in Man­hat­tan.

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Tue Apr 01 2025
Myanmar's rescuers work through rubble of a collapsed building following Friday's earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo)

Myanmar's rescuers work through rubble of a collapsed building following Friday's earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo)

Uncredited

Myanmar earthquake death toll surpasses 2700 as hope for survivors fade

Res­cue work­ers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rub­ble of a build­ing in Myan­mar’s cap­i­tal on Tues­day, but hope was fad­ing of find­ing many more sur­vivors of the vi­o­lent earth­quake that killed more than 2,700 peo­ple, com­pound­ing a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis caused by a civ­il war.

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Tue Apr 01 2025
Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day celebrations at Empowerment Hall on Churchill Roosevelt Highway, Maloney yesterday.

Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day celebrations at Empowerment Hall on Churchill Roosevelt Highway, Maloney yesterday.

Archbishop Burke wants to challenge Young’s appointment as PM

Arch­bish­op Bar­bara Gray-Burke is pre­pared to op­pose the in­stal­la­tion of Stu­art Young as Prime Min­is­ter to the Privy Coun­cil if she has to.

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Tue Apr 01 2025
UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar dancing  during the Spiritual Baptist Day celebrations at the Moruga Multipurpose Youth and Sport Facility.

UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar dancing during the Spiritual Baptist Day celebrations at the Moruga Multipurpose Youth and Sport Facility.

KRISTIAN DESILVA

Stuart and Kamla disagree on removal of Shouter from Baptist Liberation Day

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has called on cit­i­zens to learn the his­to­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s on­ly in­dige­nous re­li­gion, stat­ing that the fight for Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion Day is a sig­nif­i­cant mo­ment in the coun­try’s po­lit­i­cal and so­cial his­to­ry.

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Tue Apr 01 2025
Pundit Krishen Ramdeen, left, taking part in the march to strengthen Hindu unity.

Pundit Krishen Ramdeen, left, taking part in the march to strengthen Hindu unity.

Shastri Boodan

March for Hindu unity in central Trinidad

In a dis­play of uni­ty and de­vo­tion, more than 1,000 peo­ple dressed in red took to the streets of cen­tral Trinidad, march­ing along Freeport, Todds Road, yes­ter­day. The event, led by Pun­dit Kr­ishen Ramdeen head of the Isha Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T, was a call for har­mo­ny in the Hin­du com­mu­ni­ty.

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Tue Apr 01 2025
UNC candidate for San Fernando East John Michael Alibocas greets a Pleasantville resident at his home during a walkabout on Friday.

UNC candidate for San Fernando East John Michael Alibocas greets a Pleasantville resident at his home during a walkabout on Friday.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

‘I represent everyone’

UNC San Fer­nan­do East can­di­date John Michael Al­i­bo­cas, pop­u­lar­ly known as Makamil­lion, says he will con­tin­ue to serve all con­stituents re­gard­less of their back­ground fol­low­ing claims that he was seen re­cent­ly with peo­ple of ques­tion­able char­ac­ter.

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Mon Mar 31 2025
Incumbent Tabaquite MP  Anita Haynes-Alleyne

Incumbent Tabaquite MP Anita Haynes-Alleyne

UNC ‘dissidents’ mum on offer to join NTA

A for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­ber is not ac­tive­ly con­sid­er­ing an in­vi­ta­tion to join the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) and con­test the gen­er­al elec­tion un­der the par­ty’s ban­ner.

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Jesse Ramdeo
Tue Apr 01 2025
Carlos Neptune

Carlos Neptune

Security firms hopeful but cautious on Kamla’s compensation pledge

Es­tate po­lice of­fi­cers and pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty firms say they are hope­ful but hes­i­tant that se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers would be made a pri­or­i­ty if the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) forms the next gov­ern­ment.

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KAY-MARIE FLETCHER
Tue Apr 01 2025
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