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From left, Chief Immigration Officer (Ag.) Charmaine Gandhi-Andrews and Immigration Officer IV- Enforcement Unit Gewan Harricoo, during JSC yesterday.
From left, Chief Immigration Officer (Ag.) Charmaine Gandhi-Andrews and Immigration Officer IV- Enforcement Unit Gewan Harricoo, during JSC yesterday.

Convicts from Latin America coming to Trinidad pos­ing as Venezue­lans

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­als from Pe­ru, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Colom­bia with a string of crim­i­nal records have been com­ing to Trinidad pos­ing as Venezue­lans.

A SORT officer stands guard during a raid in Sea Lots earlier this week as part of the TTPS' attempt to rid the capital of gang violence.
A SORT officer stands guard during a raid in Sea Lots earlier this week as part of the TTPS’ attempt to rid the capital of gang violence.

Trinidad: Community leader, son held in early morning Sea Lots raid

(Trinidad Guardian) A well-known com­mu­ni­ty leader from Sea Lots and his son were tak­en in for ques­tion­ing by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing an­oth­er raid in Port-of-Spin on Fri­day.

Undertakers removing the body of Nigel Francisco

Trinidad gang war erupts again, cops fear for innocent

 (Trinidad Guardian) The in­crease of mur­ders and gun vi­o­lence in the Sea Lots, East Port-of-Spain and Care­nage is now be­lieved to be di­rect­ly linked to the on­go­ing gang ri­val­ry be­tween two main gangs—the Ras­ta City and the Mus­lims.

FLASHBACK: A local rice farmer ploughs his field in Central Trinidad. —Photo: KRISHNA MAHARAJ

Trinidad farmers rice ending up as pet food

(Trinidad Express) Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat says he was shocked by a recent revelation by the National Flour Mills (NFM) that 95 per cent of the rice paddy it buys from local rice farmers ends up as pet food and not on the plates of taxpayers.

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