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News Report Trinidad & Tobago Wednesday July 2nd 2025

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Twenty-four hours after Government passed legislation to pull former prime minister Stuart Young’s prime ministerial pension, the Cabinet also pulled his personal security detail.
Young was in a meeting in his constituency when officers of the T&T Police Service’s (TTPS) Special Branch received the call indicating that they were no longer assigned to Young’s detail. The security reportedly gave Young a ride home first before wrapping up their operations with him.
Young said there was an existing Cabinet decision, which, he said, applied for decades that provided limited security to former prime ministers and presidents for a period of three months and six months.
A senior Cabinet official confirmed the move. They said Young’s detail would have ended on July 28, three months after he demitted office after the April 28 General Election.
However, the source said threat assessments are regularly conducted and the latest showed there was no need for Young’s detail to be continued.

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