Daily Brief - Tuesday 2nd May, 2023
Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and a delegation from Japan visited TT on Monday, meeting with Energy and Energy Industries Minister Stuart Young, Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Amery Browne, and holding a luncheon with Japanese residents in TT. Read more
2nd May 2023
Daily Brief- Monday 01 May, 2023
As Government considers transforming Siparia into a borough, PNM Councillor for La Brea Gerald Debisette has accused the CEO of treating the regional corporation like a “parlour” instead of a multi-million dollar business. Debisette’s statement came during the Siparia Regional Corporation (SRC) statutory meeting on Thursday as he joined with... Read more
1st May 2023
Daily Brief - Friday 28th April, 2023
Former commissioner of police, NTA leader Gary Griffith, on Friday asked whether certain police officers who extracted firearms dealer Brent Thomas from Barbados to TT were being controlled by external elements. Commenting on Justice Devindra Rampersad's ruling that Thomas was pursued by officers with flimsy search warrants and with dubious... Read more
28th April 2023
Daily Brief - Thursday 27th April, 2023
Months after he was shot during an attack which killed 16-year-old Darshan Ramnauth and Geno Shah in Train Line Village, St Augustine, 30-year-old watermelon vendor Dillon Joseph was gunned down at his Caroni stall on Wednesday afternoon. Read more
27th April 2023
Daily Brief - Wednesday 26th April, 2023
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) reported a series of incidents occurring during the yellow-level weather alert on Tuesday. There was one reported incident in the north-west region where a tree fell in Upper Santa Cruz at Sam Boucaud. Saw operators were dispatched to deal with the issue. Read more
26th April 2023
Daily Brief - Tuesday 25th April, 2023
Housing Development Corporation (HDC) chairman Noel Garcia said the organisation’s managers were doing their jobs when they evicted illegal tenants from apartments at Old St Joseph Road, Piccadilly, Port of Spain. He said anarchy could prevail if rules were not followed. Read more
25th April 2023
Daily Brief - Monday 24th April, 2023
Both Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited (PPGPL) and National Petroleum (NP) have assured that there is no shortage of LPG, the nation’s most used cooking gas. In a release on Sunday, PPGPL said its processing units have been taken offline for “routine maintenance works,” which the company has been planning... Read more
24th April 2023
Daily Brief - Friday 21st April, 2023
An Enterprise, Chaguanas, man was shot and killed on Wednesday night outside his home. Melville Phillip, 44, also known as “Big Boy,” of Tobago Road, Enterprise, was killed around 8.16 pm. Reports indicate that Phillip was washing his car under a shed in his yard. Read more
21st April 2023
Daily Brief - Wednesday 19th April, 2023
Two communities in north Trinidad were rocked by heavy gunfire on Monday – the same day that Caricom leaders, including TT's Prime Minister, sat down and discussed the regional scourge of crime and lawlessness. In one case, a woman was shot dead and five others, including children, left wounded and... Read more
19th April 2023
Daily Brief - Tuesday 18th April, 2023
Only a workable plan to which all subscribe and contribute—and which actually reduces regional violence—will justify calling Caricom’s crime symposium a success, says former minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie. Tewarie, as well as heads of the Supermarket Association, Criminal Bar Association and Confederation of Regional Chambers yesterday commented on the opening... Read more
18th April 2023
Daily Brief - Monday 17th April, 2023
A fight between rival gangs, in which shots were fired and bottles thrown, brought a party in a nightclub on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook, to a premature end during the early hours of Sunday. The mayhem, caught on video which was shared to social media, which quickly went viral, came mere... Read more
17th April 2023
Daily Brief - Friday 14th April, 2023
As the country’s 2023 murder toll surpasses 160, the Rastafarian community is pleading with the public to find non-violent forms of conflict resolution and to stop attempting to use crime to achieve same. Speaking to Newsday on Thursday, Prince Imsley of Zion – a Bobo Shanti priest – said the... Read more
14th April 2023
Daily Brief - Thursday 13th April, 2023
The murder of businessman Rishard Ali on Wednesday morning has struck fear among the Chaguanas business community who claim they are under siege. They are now asking to be armed and are calling for the death penalty for criminals. Read more
13th April 2023
Daily Brief - Wednesday 12th April, 2023
The Chinese Embassy on Tuesday condemned what it called an “atrocity targeting Chinese nationals” after the murder of San Juan businessman Bingzhang Zhu. Zhu, the owner of Golden City Supermarket, was attacked just after closing hours on Good Friday. Read more
12th April 2023
Daily Brief - Tuesday 11th April, 2023
Attorneys for a Chaguanas gun dealer are warning Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher of impending legal action over the police’s inability to account for 500 rounds of nine-millimetre ammunition seized from his dealership in October 2022. In a letter last week, attorneys Anand Beharrylal, KC, Kyle Taklalsingh, Asif Hosein-Shah and Ananda... Read more
11th April 2023