Daily Brief - Wednesday 11th December, 2019
Frustration was the order of the day on Tuesday as hundreds of people filled several commercial banks in Port of Spain waiting, some for hours, to exchange their old $100 bills for the new polymer notes. Read more
11th December 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 10th December, 2019
The Association of Compliance Professionals (ACPTT) welcomed the new polymer $100 bill as a move that will bolster the country’s anti-money laundering landscape. “The introduction of this new $100 bill, with its new material and other security features, is a positive (move),” the association said in a statement Monday. Read more
10th December 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 9th December, 2019
San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello and Michael Jay Williams of Timekeeper installed an 18-foot clock tower at Independence Avenue/Harris Promenade corner on Saturday morning. Read more here… Read more
9th December 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 6th December, 2019
Jwala Rambaran, former Central Bank governor, said the Government’s intended switch of the $100 notes to a polymer note was four years too late, and came after the Government had quashed his original plans to do just that. He spoke to Newsday on Thursday. Read more
6th December 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 5th December, 2019
The Port of Spain City Corporation has put its "move along" policy into practice to get homeless people off streets and out of parks in the city. On Wednesday morning, it began with a clean-up exercise at the Riverside Plaza, which is to be followed by refurbishment of the lower... Read more
5th December 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 4th December, 2019
Historically, voter turnout for local government elections is low. The exact numbers will be revealed by the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) in the near future. However, there is a common assumption that young people are not engaged in the electoral process, but the EBC does not give disaggregated data... Read more
4th December 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 3rd December, 2019
The National Drama Association of TT (NDATT) elected a new executive body at its annual general meeting on November 24. The new executive committee will hold office until 2021. Those elected were outgoing secretary Safa Niamat-Ali as president, outgoing area representative, east (acting) Peter Craig as vice president and former... Read more
3rd December 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 2nd December, 2019
The dry season officially began yesterday and the forecast doesn’t look too good. That was the prediction of meteorologist Arlene Aaron-Morrison of the Meteorological Service, at the Office of Disaster Preparedness Management (ODPM) alternate National Emergency Operations Centre in Mausica on Thursday. Read more
2nd December 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 29th November, 2019
Families are waiting to re-admit patients to the Transformed Life Ministry, the rehabilitation home which was searched in October by police who found people locked in cages. Pastor Glen Awong, head of the ministry, made this announcement in a brief conversation with Newsday on Wednesday. Read more
29th November 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 28th November, 2019
One Caribbean Media (OCM) chairman, attorney Faarees Hosein, has called on Police Commissioner Gary Griffith to desist from engaging in behaviour that causes “discomfort, distress or anxiety” to media professionals. Read more here Read more
28th November 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 27th November, 2019
Dr Gabrielle Hosein, director of the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, said statistics revealed,one in ten women in TT reports non-partner sexual violence. One in three women report sexual and physical violence and one in five report sexual abuse before age 18. Read more
27th November 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 26th November, 2019
NEWSState witness shot dead in Claxton BayA Claxton Bay father who was a state witness in an attempted-murder case has been shot dead. The body of Kevin Bhukal was found in his car near to the Forres Park landfill at Cedar Hill Road, Claxton Bay, on Sunday afternoon. Read more
26th November 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 25th November, 2019
Over a hundred patrons turned up to De-stress at the top floor at the Port Mall last Saturday night in the second edition of the dance fitness-based event. De-stress was conceptualised by 25-year-old Ameika Louis; the proud owner of Dance Fitness Tobago and Ile Dingolay - Movement Studio at the... Read more
25th November 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 22nd November,2019
The Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women is hoping to change the landscape of politics through its Women’s Transformational Political Leadership Skills Training (TTIWiL) course. Read more
22nd November 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 19th November 2019
Has much changed with globalisation? How far has this country and the Caribbean come from being ruled by the colonial powers? These and other questions surrounding a contemporary Caribbean in a wider world were examined last week by scholars and lecturers at the University of the West Indies’ symposium “Capitalism... Read more
19th November 2019