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1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Jensen La Vende

   Beckles: Bill is a money-making venture for govt (opens the original)

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   Com­ment­ing on the Mis­cel­la­neous Pro­vi­sions (Al­co­hol, Cannabis, Dan­ger­ous Drugs, Gam­bling and To­bac­co) Bill, 2026, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les said this is just an­oth­er mon­ey-mak­ing ven­ture for the gov­ern­ment. Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Beck­les said, “If you re­call last year in the bud­get de­bate, the min­is­ter of fi­nance said they were go­ing to raise a bil­lion dol­lars on tax­es. “This is not iso­lat­ed from what is clear­ly a gov­ern­me

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2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · JENSEN LA VENDE

   PRESSURE MOUNTS ON BARRY (opens the original)

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   Weeks be­fore the Gov­ern­ment presents its sec­ond bud­get, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer says her union will not back down on its 10 per cent wage hike re­quest. Fur­ther­more, Ogeer is now call­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter to meet with the union to set­tle out­stand­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions, say­ing she will not deal with Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath. Speak­ing to the me­dia out­side TSTT House on Ed­ward Street, Port-of-Spain, dur­in

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3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · JENSEN LA VENDE

   Three get ORTT: (opens the original)

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   Less than a year af­ter ad­min­is­ter­ing the oath of of­fice to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s top ju­di­cial of­fi­cer, Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark will to­day stand along­side Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh and for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Dr Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan as re­cip­i­ents of the na­tion’s high­est award, the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT). The trio were among 32 in­di­vid­u­als named yes­ter­day as re­cip­i­ents of na­tion­al awards ahead of to­day’s

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4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · JENSEN LA VENDE

   Released detainees look forward to family, food, sea baths (opens the original)

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   A sea bath, fast food and time with fam­i­ly. These were the plans of some of the for­mer de­tainees held un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as they were re­leased yes­ter­day fol­low­ing the end of the State of Emer­gency (SoE). Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia out­side the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa, An­to­nio Paul, 23, said his first or­der of busi­ness was a meal. “I’m go­ing to get some­thing prop­er to eat, like Pop­eye’s or Mc­Don­ald’s,

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5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · JENSEN LA VENDE

   PM: Former detainees’ lawsuits may fail under PDO rules (opens the original)

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   As the Prison Ser­vice con­tin­ues re­leas­ing high-risk de­tainees to­day, a process that be­gan yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she be­lieves law­suits by for­mer de­tainees may not be suc­cess­ful. “In my re­spect­ful view, those chal­lenges may not be very suc­cess­ful be­cause the reg­u­la­tions them­selves had giv­en a rid­er (caveat) in terms of what you could come to sue for or not,” Per­sad-Bisses­sar said while speak­ing to re­porters out­side Par­lia­ment

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