ASAkash Samaroo

1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Akash Samaroo

   Sturge: Business chambers putting profits before young people (opens the original)

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   De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has ac­cused busi­ness groups of putting prof­its ahead of the wel­fare of young peo­ple as he de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s con­tentious move to raise the le­gal ages for al­co­hol, to­bac­co, cannabis and gam­bling. Speak­ing dur­ing de­bate on the Mis­cel­la­neous Pro­vi­sions (Al­co­hol, Cannabis, Dan­ger­ous Drugs, Gam­bling and To­bac­co) Bill, 2026, in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives ear­li­er to­day, Sturge took par­tic­u­lar aim at the Cham­bers of Com­

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2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Akash Samaroo

   Annisette-George rejects comparison with Mark casting vote (opens the original)

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   For­mer House Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George has re­ject­ed at­tempts to use her cast­ing votes in Par­lia­ment in 2017 as prece­dent for Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark’s de­cid­ing vote on the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, ar­gu­ing that none of her votes de­ter­mined the fate of sub­stan­tive leg­is­la­tion. In a de­tailed re­sponse to the con­tro­ver­sy, An­nisette-George said there was a “crit­i­cal dis­tinc­tion” be­tween the cir­cum­stances in which she ex­er­cised cast­ing votes as Spea

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3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Akash Samaroo

   Mark's vote breaks 15-15 Senate deadlock to pass Special Operations Bill (opens the original)

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   Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark used his cast­ing vote ear­ly this morn­ing to break a 15-15 dead­lock and se­cure pas­sage of the Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, fol­low­ing a tense con­clu­sion to de­bate in the Up­per House. The bill re­ceived the sup­port of all 15 Gov­ern­ment sen­a­tors but was re­ject­ed by all six Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tors and the nine In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors, leav­ing the cham­ber even­ly di­vid­ed. With the vote tied, Mark in­ter­vened, say­ing he had re­sea

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4. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Akash Samaroo

   T&T, Ghana sign air services agreement (opens the original)

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   Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Ghana­ian Pres­i­dent John Dra­mani Ma­hama have signed an Air Ser­vices Agree­ment aimed at strength­en­ing air links be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Africa. The agree­ment was signed dur­ing bi­lat­er­al talks in New York on the side­lines of the 81st Ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly. Ac­cord­ing to the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, the two lead­ers al­so dis­cussed trade and in­vest­ment, air trans­porta­tion and repa­r

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5. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Akash Samaroo

   Antigua PM backs Kamla’s tough stance on disruptive students (opens the original)

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   An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has thrown his sup­port be­hind Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s tough stance on vi­o­lent and dis­rup­tive stu­dents, sug­gest­ing at­ten­tion should in­stead be placed on par­ents who are “rais­ing crim­i­nals” in their homes. Browne made the com­ment while shar­ing a Guardian Me­dia re­port on Per­sad-Bisses­sar dou­bling down on her call for vi­o­lent and per­sis­tent­ly dis­rup­tive stu­dents to be re­moved from schools. “En

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