Daily Brief - Monday 30th September, 2019
GASPARILLO grandmother Chanday Lalloo was no match for the criminal/s who attacked her on Saturday night, when she was knifed to death. Her killing takes the murder toll to 401, compared to 400 for the same period last year. Read more here Read more
30th September 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 27th September, 2019
TSTT has announced that it intends to make an international offering of US dollar denominated bonds and TT dollar denominated bonds, citing the primary purpose for the proceeds of the offering to go towards “refinancing existing indebtedness”. Read more
27th September 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 25th September, 2019
Clean up efforts in Scarborough began in earnest on Monday, a day after heavy rainfall from tropical storm Karen triggered extensive flooding in the capital's downtown commercial area. Wearing rubber boots and armed with shovels, business owners and their employees removed thick slush from within their businesses as they tried... Read more
25th September 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 23rd September, 2019
One of the biggest food and beverage distributers and manufacturers in the Caribbean on Saturday launched it’s newest product in TT, Lipton Ice Tea. Speaking to members of the media at the launch at BHP Billiton building, Invaders Bay, Port of Spain, Vemco CEO Christopher Alcazar said, “Lipton Ice Tea... Read more
23rd September 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 20th September,2019
The Ministry of Works and Transport was forced to open the Priority Bus Route (PBR) to private cars last evening after a lightning strike left the traffic lights at the Curepe Intersection non-functional. Read more
20th September 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 19th September, 2019
Almost one year after his home was under six feet of water and he lost over $50,000 in household items a flood victim, Larry Sammy appealed to the United National Congress (UNC) to place the issue of flooding high on the agenda when they present at the 2019/2020 budget on... Read more
19th September 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 18th September, 2019
The recent spike in oil prices due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East may not benefit TT due to this country’s reduced oil and gas production according to former energy minister Kevin Ramnarine. Oil prices witnessed a spike on Monday following drone strikes on a Saudi oil facility... Read more
18th September 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 16th September, 2019
President of the Rapidfire Kidz Foundation, attorney Kevin Ratiram has made an appeal for TT to start adopting children who are languishing in homes throughout the country. Ratiram said, in TT, the word adoption was almost taboo and called for a national conversation to begin on the subject. Read more
16th September 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 13th September, 2019
With TT underperforming in the Global Innovation Index, the National Export Facilitation Organization (exporTT) is on a drive to enhance and foster a spirit of innovation amongst businesses in TT. Chairman of exporTT Ashmeer Mohammed in his welcome address to participants at the organisation’s Innovation to Export seminar on Wednesday,... Read more
13th September 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 12th September, 2019
Police public information officer ASP Wayne Mystar said police are mandated to protect citizens from criminal elements even in the schools. He was agreeing with Minister of Education Anthony Garcia, who said it was left to the police to keep out and round up criminal elements who have been looting... Read more
12th September 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 11th September, 2019
For too long, suicide has been a shadowy almost taboo topic, lurking in the dark corners of society. But this needs to change.“Talking about suicide opens the conversation and reduces stigma,” Wendy Jeremie, of the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Psychologists (TTAP), said as she spoke on Saturday at the... Read more
11th September 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 9th September, 2019
The Ministry of Planning and Development says that consultation on fireworks and their use in TT has begun among several key government ministries the fire services and the police. In a statement sent to Newsday on Saturday, the ministry said the Joint Select Committee (JSC) on Social Services and Public... Read more
9th September 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 6th September, 2019
Port of Spain Mayor Joel Martinez concluded a two-day public consultation at City Hall on Wednesday on the Chinatown Development Initiative. Martinez told Newsday the driving force behind the initiative is Port of Spain’s close relationship with Shanghai which mirrors TT’s diplomatic ties with China over the past 45 years. Read more
6th September 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 5th September, 2019
Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon told Newsday she was confident TT businesses were both willing and able to help hurricane-ravaged Bahamas, speaking at a function at Export TT in Port of Spain yesterday. “Let me say we commiserate with the people of the Bahamas. Read more
5th September 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday September 4th, 2019
Hurricane Dorian, now a Category 2 Storm, moved away from the Bahamas around 8 pm Tuesday night. This morning, in an interview on CNC3's Morning Brew, Bahamas Minister of Tourism Dionisio D'Aguilar said the devastation in Abaco and Grand Bahama islands was overwhelming. Read more
4th September 2019