MiLAT graduate appeals for programme to be saved
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July 2, 2026
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Akash Samaroo
Akeel Timothy still remembers begging his mother not to send him to the Military-Led Academic Training (MiLAT) programme.
At 18, he believed he did not belong there. He had already spent more than six years in the Trinidad and Tobago Cadet Force, loved military life and was not the stereotypical troubled teenager many associated with the programme. But after sitting CSEC examinations twice and emerging with just one pass, his mother saw something he did not. She saw a young man who needed focus.
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