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Two T&T scholars -- Deante Taylor, 23, and Tyrone Smith, 22 -- have graduated at the top of Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture, having attained the highest scores possible in their computer science studies.
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"...the exposure brought by daughter of the soil, mega international rapper Nicki Minaj... among the top female artistes in the world...her rise to stardom has seen her connect her followers to her homeland..."
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Ambassador of Ukraine to T&T, Sergiy Kyslytsya, says the mitigation of the negative impact of Russia’s attacks on critical energy infrastructure facilities remains one of the priorities of the Ukrainian Government.
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Ten years ago, Meriah John took a chance. She started a YouTube channel focusing on how she would style her hair.
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Caricom leaders are moving to ban the public’s use of assault weapons and have also promised to write to the US government to demand a stronger effort to prevent the flow of guns into the region...
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"I would like as First Gentleman to demonstrate to men how one can support one’s spouse, how one can support women in this country in leadership positions without feeling in the least bit diminished and threatened".
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Last week Berrycove Ltd, using its social media pages, posted an image of the first raspberry ever grown in T&T for commercial distribution.
Read about it...
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Hukaymah Ali is the woman you can call when you want to remove an anaconda from your property.
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Flooding along Independence Square Port of Spain.
Video by Sampson Nanton
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Gold medalist Jareem Richards is surrounded by pupils of Point Fortin RC Primary School after he was honored by the Borough of Point Fortin for his outstanding achievements in Track and Field at Victor Chin Kit Park, Point Fortin.
Image by Kristian De Silva
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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is questioning why bakeries and doubles makers are not lowering their prices in the wake of an announced decrease in flour from three top producers.
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Trinidad and Tobago's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Ambassador Dennis Francis, has been elected as the 78th President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
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At 26 years old, Grenadian Kyana Bubb has already managed to break barriers and impact change in her community.
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With complaints of high regional airfares throughout the Caribbean, Frontier Airlines is on a mission: to get people in the air at the lowest price possible. And that’s how Frontier has plans to establish itself – in underserved and overpriced markets.
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Approximately six hours after he left Arima, Wendell Eversley has arrived at the Red House in Port-of-Spain, where he will lay a wreath to honour those who died in the 1990 attempted coup. [Video by Jesse Ramdeo]
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In his first throw
@KeshornWalcott
records 88.68m and automatically qualifies for the final of the Men's Javelin.
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A caiman is seen swimming on the flooded street of Springlands Avenue, Valsayn South.
Video courtesy Dr. Rajendra G Singh
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3-year-old Araya and her 2-year old sister Avaya wave their flags, as they attend their first Independence Day Parade.
Video by Jesse Ramdeo.
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T&T’s north coast will receive a $70 million investment with the offering a modern, luxurious Maracas Bay hotel with a multitude of unique features.
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The University of the West Indies (UWI), together with the Cocoa Research Centre (CRC) yesterday hosted a foundation laying ceremony for the UWI Chocolate Factory, at University Field Station, Mount Hope.
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Polygraphs for 140 southwestern cops: “All officers on the border will be asked two questions: Do you receive remuneration for illegal weapons and guns and human trafficking? And are you aware of the individuals involved”
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One of the youngest women on our list of 23 Women to Watch, 25-year-old Ashlee Burnett is a feminist, activist, and educator, working tirelessly in the humanitarian space in Trinidad for the past few years.
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These children in Mayaro held their own Independence Day Parade.
Video by Kelly Ann Lemessy
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Trinidad and Tobago now joins several other CARICOM countries in formally recognising the State of Palestine. The decision was taken by Cabinet today, according to the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs.
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As one of the region’s leading economists and advisers, Marla Dukharan’s profound insights on C'bean economic issues have influenced state policy and private sector decision-making throughout the years.
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Scores of men line up for prostate cancer screening at Trincity Mall, hosted by the Ministry of Health.
Video by Matthew Chin.
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T&T’s boys’ under-20 4×100 metres team stunned the defending champions Jamaica and the entire Kirani James Athletics Stadium, Grenada last night, winning the event in 40.45 seconds on day two of 51st edition of the Carifta Games.
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Mount Irvine Bay Resort in Tobago has won the LUXlife 2023 Resorts & Retreats Award at the 30th World Travel Awards (WTA) & The Americas Gala Ceremony 2023 held at Sandals, St. Lucia.
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Denyse Plummer's most successful year in calypso was 2001, when she won the National Calypso Monarch title with Heroes and Nah Leaving.
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President of the T&T Goat and Sheep Society Ravi Rennie says they are aiming to cut out the middleman and provide local meat to consumers, who will be able to buy meat for around 30 per cent less than they currently pay for it.
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This was Brian Lara's reaction to the moment West Indies defeated Australia in the second Test at the Gabba, to draw the series 1-1. [Video courtesy
@MarkHoward03
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Two-year-old Umar Ali has been found and is undergoing medical treatment at the Sangre Grande Hospital at this time.
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Cricket legend Brian Lara has expressed deep concern with the levels of crime in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Rayard Mohammed, the man who attacked the family of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in a Facebook post, has been taken into police custody.
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Dr Keith Rowley is the new Prime Minster elect of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
#GMLElectionCentral
http://t.co/kUUlNP53kt
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A procession to mark the legacy of Dr Leroy Calliste is underway through the streets of San Fernando. Despite inclement weather, both young and old chipped to Stalin's many hits.
Video by Kristian De Silva
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Miss T&T World Aché Abrahams says thanks for all the love and support received at home.
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As T&T celebrates World Steel Pan Month, a significant milestone was achieved yesterday, after the Musical Instruments of Trinidad and Tobago Company Limited earned ISO certification from the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards.
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The T&T Fire Service cools down the crowd on Tragarete Road during the Independence Day parade. Spraying water from the fire truck has become a tradition many look forward to on Independence Day.
Video by Roberto Codallo.
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Communications strategists advise Govt to improve vaccination campaigns
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Jamaican investor, Michael Lee-Chin, has put his mansion on Grand Cayman’s Seven-Mile Beach up for sale for an asking price of US$35 million, regional business sources told Sunday Business.
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Piarco International Airport has once again been named the Best Airport in the Caribbean by international air transport rating organisation Skytrax.
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Trini teen accepted by 17 US universities: “He intends to visit home later this year, but in the meantime, he wants students who may have their backs against the wall to “push through and don’t let your dream out of sight”
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Immani Mathew (T&T) won gold with 7.13m in the Boys U-17 long jump.
Immani took the lead from his first jump and was unable to be caught by his fellow competitors.
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Murder accused freed after six-day trial: “This country’s first judge-alone trial ended in just six days.
And the accused who spent 14 years awaiting a trial on a murder charge was found not guilty.”
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A Carnival parade is taking place in San Fernando today, as a final farewell and tribute to legendary masman and Carnival icon, the King of Indian Mas, Lionel Jagessar Sr.
[Video by KRISTIAN DE SILVA]
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The St. Lucia Parliament Tuesday night gave the green light for the island to have the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final and highest court, replacing the London-based Privy Council.
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This spectator explains why she's proud to be Trini
Video by Jesse Ramdeo.
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Man proposes to girlfriend in heart of city: Hinds said he had been planning the proposal since the couple met four years ago.
“You have any brothers?” a random woman impressed by the proposal asked Hinds after Khan had said yes.
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Almost two months after surviving a daring heist at Pennywise Plaza in La Romaine, which claimed the lives of her two colleagues, security officer Peola Baptiste is praising God for saving her life.
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63-year-old Pat Jackson was found alive yesterday, by a team comprising members of Hunters Search and Rescue and the Fire Service, after going missing for over 12 hours in the Lopinot forest.
[Video courtesy Hunters Search and Rescue]
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Dharmie Deo, a Moruga native who now resides in Penal, has reached the impressive age of 110.
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A Jab Molassie performs for students at Grant Memorial Presbyterian School, as the Carnival parade in honour of legendary masman and Carnival icon, the King of Indian Mas, Lionel Jagessar Sr, proceeds through San Fernando.
[Video by KRISTIAN DE SILVA]
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Bermuda is considering becoming a full-fledged member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and is initiating a consultation process.
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US Ambassador Candace Bond in Friends for the Road Jouvert band
Video: Kristian De Silva
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A 27-year-old Gasparillo woman is dead after an ex-boyfriend chased after her along the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, then drove over her.
Sascha Wilson and Kristian De Silva have the details.
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Calypso Queen Terri Lyons performed for students of San Fernando Girls Government School during her visit on Wednesday as she promotes Calypso History Month, where she performed her mega-hit song, Obeah.
Video by Rishi Ragoonath
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Commissioner of Police (CoP) Erla Harewood-Christopher believes this country is dealing with an unnatural evil and without divine intervention, her anti-crime strategies, including reducing murders, will be doomed to fail.
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Lost Tribe is turning ten in 2025, a fact that has left its creative director, Valmiki Maharaj, stunned. “The fact that we are having a conversation about ten years is crazy to me,” he said.
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Ian "Bunji Garlin" Alvarez's "Hard Fete" was out front yesterday as the leading song for this year's Road March, but faced stiff competition from Nailah Blackman and Gamal "Skinny Fabulous" Doyle's "Come Home" at judging points in Port-of-Spain.
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Disgraced former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner personally funded an ethnically divisive disinformation campaign in Trinidad and Tobago designed by an election engineering firm to discourage black Trinidadians from voting.
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PDP Leader Watson Dukes takes his regular position next to the Chief Secretary although being told he had to sit on the opposition side by protocol officers.
Video by Chester Sambrano
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Aché Abrahams, Miss World Trinidad and Tobago, has officially been named the 2nd runner-up in Miss World 2024. Miss World quietly confirmed this on their website nearly six months after the competition, where only the winner and first runner-up were announced publicly.
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Trinidad and Tobago is expected to welcome 66,445 people via flights into the country this month, compared to 59,693 for the same period last year. This figure represents 6,752 more people owing to the Carnival season.
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Mexico has asked Caricom to join its legal fight to hold US gun manufacturers and distributors responsible for the crime mayhem their weapons have been used to unleash in some countries—and T&T is actively considering the request.
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Arms of the Defense Force make their march out of the Savannah and onto the streets of Port-of-Spain during Independence Day celebrations.
Video by Jesse Ramdeo.
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US Vice President Kamala Harris shared a call with Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday, discussing the strengthening of energy security and climate resilience of the Caribbean.
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In early 2018, businessman Richard Ramkissoon had a brush with death when he was shot during a botched robbery.
The incident had a profound impact on Ramkissoon’s wife, regional economist Marla Dukharan, who migrated to Barbados.
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An historic moment for the Caribbean as a mother and daughter from Antigua and Barbuda are the first space tourists from the region to journey to space and back to earth on the same day.
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Entertainer John Michael Alibocas popularly known as Makamillion is the United National Congress (UNC) candidate for Marabella West.
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TKR won by 133 runs after bowling out Barbados Royals for 61 in 12.1 overs.
#CNC3
#GuardianMediaLimited
#CPL23
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A disciplinary tribunal set up by the T&T Medical Board has suspended Dr Avinash Sawh for one week, after finding him guilty of “infamous and disgraceful conduct” over a race-related rant which was caught on camera.
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Next semester, Nicholas Khan will begin his Bachelor of Arts in graphic design on a scholarship at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of T&T (COSTAATT) in Port-of-Spain.
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Prominent Indian cardiothoracic surgeon, Professor Dr Prashant Vaijyanath, has performed South Trinidad’s first bloodless beating heart bypass surgery at the Southern Medical Clinic in San Fernando.
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Emancipation Day in T&T
Decked in gold, Ghanaian dancers perform at the start of the Emancipation Day procession at Independence Square in T&T's capital city, on Tuesday 1 August 2023.
Video: Dareece Polo
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Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh reveals new technology to test prostate.
Video: Terrence Deyalsingh.
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Nikoli Blackman, Liam Carrington, Liam Roberts, and Zarek Wilson all won individual gold medals along with the Boys 200-meter freestyle relays on the final night of swimming at the 36th CARIFTA Championships in Curacao on Sunday night.
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Trinidad-born artist Sarah Knights has been asked to commission a staggering portrait of King Charles for the July cover of Tatler, a British fashion and lifestyle magazine.
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103-year-old Debe vendor shows no sign of slowing down
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Yuma passes Adam Smith Square judging point without being judged, because there were no judges at that point at 8:45 am. The band said they had to move on to make their way to the Savannah.
[Video by Kristian De Silva]
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Sankar breaks UNC ranks again
...attends major Independence Day events
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LGE 2023:
A member of the public confronts Caroni Central MP Arnold Ram in Edinburgh 500.
Video by Rishard Khan.
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Your Business Guardian
for Thursday 17 August 2023
Be sure to pick up your copy...
It's free in today's paper!
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The epitome of resplendence and excellence, Wendy Fitzwilliam is celebrating 25 years since her victory at the Miss Universe pageant in 1998.
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Scrap iron workers have blocked the northbound carriageway of the Solomon Hochoy Highway, triggering a massive traffic gridlock.
[Video by KRISTIAN DE SILVA]
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The police officer accused of killing siblings Simeon and Siniaya Lessey at the Courts Megastore, San Juan last weekend – has been charged with two counts of murder.
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Grammy and Tony award-winning Trinidad-born singer, songwriter and actress Heather Headley and Trinidad-born British actress, singer and author Baroness Floella Benjamin both received Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree from the UWI yesterday.
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Local businesses seeking to get US dollars from the Jamaican banking system using the T&T dollar may no longer be able to do so.
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The public can now access over 200 speeches and other writings penned by the first Prime Minister of T&T, Dr Eric Williams as part of a digitalisation project to preserve the country’s legacy for future generations.
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Former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday has passed away. This was confirmed by his daughter Mickela Panday this evening.
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T&T’s Nikoli Blackman wrote his name into the national history books when he swam to this country's first-ever gold medal in the men’s 50 metres freestyle final at the World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships in Netanya, Israel on Thursday.
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The United National Congress wants Government to tell the country how the suspension of the TT-Dollar by the Bank of Jamaica, is going to affect trade and local businesses overall.
Geisha Kowlessar-Alonzo has details…
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A suspected bandit was shot dead by a homeowner during an attempted home invasion.
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#tto
cyclist
@NJISANE_PHILLIP
scheduled to ride in the Men's Sprint qualifications in 15 minutes time
#Rio2016
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