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Billion spent, yet
CNC 3
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August 3, 2025
Senior Investigative Journalist [email protected] More than $5.6 billion—and counting. That’s how much Trinidad and Tobago has spent on the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) between 2010 and 2024. Over the past 15 years, the URP has been a...
Yale to honour Mottley for lifetime of leadership
Trinidad Express
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TRINIDAD and Tobago’s two-time Olympic medallist and former finance minister Wendell Mottley will receive the Yale Athletic Department’s highest honour, the George HW Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award, this November. Named for the 41st...
Billion spent, yet URP fails to equip workers with real skills and stable jobs
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Joshua Seemungal Senior Investigative Journalist joshua.seemungal@guardian.co.tt More than $5.6 billion—and counting. That’s how much Trinidad and Tobago has spent on the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) between 2010 and...
PCG sends aircraft to monitor Chinese research vessel in Luzon Strait
Inquirer
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August 3, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has deployed an aircraft to the Luzon Strait in the northern top of the country near Batanes and Taiwan to monitor and challenge a Chinese research vessel that has been spotted in the area....
Cyclist killed in accident with motorcyclist
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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JENSEN LA VENDE Senior Reporter A man riding a bicycle, who is believed to be a Venezuelan national, was killed in an accident in Central Trinidad in the early hours of Saturday morning. According to police reports, around...
Life lessons on a tiny island
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 7, 2025
Features Newsday 8 Hrs Ago Heron Island Reef. Photo courtesy Aaron Chai - Aaron Chai Anjani Ganase continues to relate her journey to ocean scientist. She spends eight months on Heron Island and lives among the creatures who feel safe there. I...
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site hosting special program August 9, 2025
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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August 5, 2025
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From smuggled food to assassination plots
CNC 3
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August 3, 2025
Senior Investigative Reporter [email protected] Corruption among a small clique of prison officers over the years has brought the prison system to its knees. Organised crime and silent complicity have turned Trinidad and Tobago’s prison system...
Regional immigration and data personnel attend CARICOM/IOM training in T&T
Dominica News Online
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July 25, 2025
Representatives of CARICOM IMPACS along with participants and IOM Technical Experts at ToT in Trinidad & Tobago. (Left)Joycelyn Hughes (Executive Director, IMPACS), Isadora Steffens (IOM)- 2nd from right (front row) Antonio Meoño (IOM) – 3rd from...
OECS signs MOU with three organizations in thrust toward regional sustainability in various sectors
Dominica News Online
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July 29, 2025
On July 24, 2025, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) formalized a strategic alliance by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with three notable organizations: AECOM Technical Services, Inc., Globus Energy Group Trinidad...
All Aboard: The Best Train Tours for Your Colorado Bucket List
Westword - Colorado
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August 7, 2025
Though many Colorado mines ran dry, the rail lines that once served them are as prosperous as ever. Year-round, thousands of passengers climb aboard these historic lines that travel along sheer cliffs, through dense forests and up to alpine...
bp announces largest discovery in 25 years
Oilfield Technology
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August 7, 2025
bp drilled exploration well 1-BP-13-SPS at the Bumerangue block, located in the Santos Basin, 404 km (218 nautical miles) from Rio de Janeiro, in a water depth of 2372 m. The well was drilled to a total depth of 5855 m. The well intersected the...
TATUCA celebrates T&T Independence, Scholarship Awards
Caribbean Life - New York
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July 29, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Consul General to New York Andre Laveau addresses ceremony in September 2023. Photo by Nelson A. King The Brooklyn-based Trinidad and Tobago United Community Association, Inc. (TATUCA) says it is collaborating with its sponsors...
Criminals will adapt
Trinidad Express
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AS the Government continues public consultations on proposed stand-your-ground legislation and easier access to legal firearms in Trinidad and Tobago, one criminologist has raised urgent concerns about the readiness of law enforcement....
Anansi, a web of promises
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 7, 2025
Letters to the Editor Newsday An Hour Ago Anansi, an AI digital assistant during the launch at the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence, Tower C, International Waterfront, Port of Spain on August 5. - Photo by Faith...
Record submissions shape TTFF 2025 programme
The Gleaner
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July 24, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A total of 88 films from 20 countries have been accepted into the 2025 Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival (TTFF), reflecting a rich and diverse tapestry of Caribbean and diasporic storytelling. This year saw a record-breaking...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, June 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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August 5, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
SVG’s Human Development Index Score Continues to Improve
St. Vincent Times
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August 5, 2025
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (HDI) Each year, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) publishes its Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations globally, as an assessment of their human development. The index encompasses the data relevant to...
Online Gaming Agents call for talks with new NLCB board
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The president of the Online Gaming Agents Association of Trinidad and Tobago (OGAATT), Dean Persad, is raising serious concerns over what he describes as years of financial mismanagement within the country’s online gaming...
Not capitalist but economically, socially and ecologically j...
Modern Ghana
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"Anti-rights and anti-gender pushes are driven by political, patriarchal, conservative, and religious bodies that frame wrong understandings of gender as a ‘threat to the social good’. They make it (wrongly) seem that any progressive position on...