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No timely sewage alerts from IMA
Trinidad Express
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August 9, 2025
IN August 2019, the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) warned citizens to avoid swimming at three popular Chaguaramas beaches—Welcome Bay, Williams Bay, and Chagville Beach—due to dangerous levels of microbial faecal contamination. IMA...
T&T mourns a giant of service
Trinidad Express
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Trinidad and Tobago has elevated Deoroop Teemal onto that shortlist of nationals who, not only by their service but their very nature, have earned the love and respect of a nation. Many citizens hold high offices tasked with service to the...
FOCP committed to changing cancer stigma into solidarity
Gulf Today
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August 9, 2025
Cancer stigma persists worldwide as a deeply rooted social challenge, driving discrimination and exclusion that profoundly impacts patients and communities. Globally, cancer is responsible for nearly one in six deaths, with up to 70% of these...
Dear Editor: All at SEA—changes needed in T&T’s education system
Wired 868
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August 8, 2025
“[…] T&T’s education system thus faces two challenges—decades old, but now more pressing in the context of 21st century market requirements and the ongoing advancement of artificial intelligence. “For the top 3%, a system that emphasises rote...
Honouring a legacy: Dr Seshni Moodliar-Rensburg's memoir of her indentured great-grandmother
The Post
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August 8, 2025
TO PRESERVE the legacy of her great-grandmother, an indentured Indian, Dr Seshni Moodliar-Rensburg recently penned a memoir, Annamma Vather (Moodley): A Matriarch – Gratitude, Love, and Honour. “It is a heartfelt memoir, a blend of biography,...
The saga of Warner’s extradition
Trinidad Express
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August 7, 2025
Ten years after the United States government filed a formal extradition request for former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, the case has now entered the comedy-of-errors stage in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2015, the US Department of Justice...
The Chevening Legacy in St. Kitts and Nevis: Celebrating Past Scholars, Confronting a Recent Decline
Times Caribbean
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August 7, 2025
A comprehensive look at the impact of Chevening alumni from St. Kitts and Nevis and the factors behind a three-year absence of new awardees BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS – August 7, 2025 – For nearly four decades, the prestigious British Chevening...
The price of being young in Grenada and the Caribbean
Now Grenada
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August 8, 2025
“A deep dive into youth displacement, crime and the erosion of hope and the urgency for evidence-based responses in Grenada and beyond.” by Dr Justine Cleophas Pierre, Labour Market Consultant Introduction: A region in crisis, a generation at...
Chuks Akamadu: Africa Needs to See Tourism as Business, Not Leisure
This Day
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August 9, 2025
Managing Director, Afrocultour Limited, Chuks Akamadu, believes Africa needs to redefine its perception of tourism, from mere leisure and sightseeing to a viable economic growth driver. He challenges policymakers across the continent to shift...
8th Annual Afrofuturism Lounge: “Minds Over Matters!”
The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint - California
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August 7, 2025
Stay informed! Stay empowered! Join our FREE newsletter today! The 8th Annual Afrofuturism Lounge took place on Thursday, July 24, 2025, at 6:00 PM at the Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park, located at 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101. Although...
Chaguanas Chamber President: Business Owners Living In Fear
TTT Live Online
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August 7, 2025
President of the Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Baldath Maharaj, has called on Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro and Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander to confront the escalating crime crisis gripping Central Trinidad....
Teemal remembered for grace, integrity, quiet strength
Trinidad Express
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August 7, 2025
Senate President Wade Mark yesterday paid tribute to former independent senator Deoroop Teemal, remembering his service to the Parliament and people of Trinidad and Tobago as marked by “grace and distinction”. Teemal passed away on Sunday after a...
Op-ed: Digital from India: Leapfrogging development
Sun Online International
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The following is an op-ed written by Indian diplomat Debnath Shaw. ___ At the 2nd Voice of the Global South Summit hosted virtually by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 17th November 2023, one key focus area was on, “Sustain the momentum of...
Moving Columbus to make space for healing
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 9, 2025
Commentary Dara Healy An Hour Ago Dara E Healy - DARA E HEALY “Once land had been sighted, and Columbus noticed gold rings in the noses of the inhabitants of the Bahamas, his voyage became a search for gold mines…A Spanish historian writing in...
Arcana Labs: Caribbean filmmakers can advance with AI
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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In a world where movie theatres are full of reboots, remakes or legacy sequels, American film producer Jonathan Yunger is sure that AI technology can help creatives from the Caribbean buck the trend. Yunger, as president of...
No retreat, no excuses...only results
Trinidad Express
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As she marks her first 100 days in office today, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar maintains she’s fit to lead and has sent a clear message to the nation—her Government is committed to delivering on every promise made, including a 10% wage...
The value of cocoa estates to T&T
Trinidad Express
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August 6, 2025
Before the discovery of oil, the economy of Trinidad and Tobago was almost entirely based on agriculture, with cocoa reigning supreme. This crop brought wealth and prosperity to the islands, and the grand colonial homes along Queen’s Park West...
Teemal-ji: a compassionate, selfless man
Trinidad Express
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August 6, 2025
THE Indo-Trinidadian diaspora in New York and I are deeply saddened by the demise of senator Deoroop Teemal, who was also president of the National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC). In the diaspora, he is well known as a person who served...
TTBWA calls for free glucose monitors for the blind
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The Trinidad and Tobago Blind Welfare Association (TTBWA) has called on the Government to extend its proposed initiative to provide Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) to include blind and visually impaired...
Suite success
Trinidad Express
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In a lecture as moving as it was masterful, emeritus professor Winston Suite offered a rare and deeply personal account of his journey through engineering, academia and law—and the unplanned events that shaped a defining Caribbean career in...