Daily Brief - Friday 26th September, 2025
Vandals struck at the Carapichaima West Secondary School on the night of September 24, overturning bins, breaking into classrooms and overturning the security booth. The estate constable employed with National Maintenance Training and Security Company Ltd (MTS) told police he heard noises coming from the northern side of the compound... Read more
26th September 2025
Daily Brief - Thursday 25th September, 2025
Describing the Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill, 2025 as a "measured" approach, the Central Bank expressed its support for the proposed bill, which seeks to ban all virtual asset activity – trading in bitcoin, NFTs and other digital assets – until 2027. Read more
25th September 2025
Daily Brief - Tuesday 23rd September, 2025
The TT Scrap Iron Dealers' Association (TTSIDA) is seeking an urgent meeting with the government to address issues threatening the industry. Chief among concerns, according to its president, Allan Ferguson, is the proliferation of what he calls an "international mafia" seeking to dominate the local market. Read more
23rd September 2025
Daily Brief - Monday 22nd September, 2025
With tears in his eyes, Marlon Seentah, 40, has vowed he will have justice over the death of his 14-year-old daughter Mariah whose body was found in a bushy track near the Friendship Recreation Ground, Ste Madeleine, on September 20. Read more
22nd September 2025
Daily Brief - Friday 19th September, 2025
T&T athletes Keshorn Walcott and Jereem Richards ensured that Trinidad and Tobago’s medal drought at global athletics meets did not extend to a decade yesterday, after coming away from the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo with gold and silver medals in the javelin and 400 metres events, respectively, on... Read more
19th September 2025
Daily Brief - Thursday 18th September, 2025
A Central man and his wife were granted bail yesterday, after they were charged in relation to the rape of the woman’s relative and the subsequent abortion of the man’s child. According to the charges, the man, who claimed to be a spiritual advisor, suggested that the girl’s deceased father’s... Read more
18th September 2025
Daily Brief - Wednesday 17th September, 2025
Police have received instructions to charge a 22-year-old police officer for the shooting death of his colleague. SRP Jamal Charles was fatally shot at the Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government headquarters in Maraval on September 11. Read more
17th September 2025
Daily Brief - Tuesday 16th September, 2025
A host of 19 companies will engage in the TT Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) trade mission to New York from September 15 to 19. In a release on September 15, TTMA said this mission is the first to take a multi-sectoral approach, bringing together stakeholders in food and beverage, chemicals, logistics... Read more
16th September 2025
Daily Brief - Monday 15th September, 2025
PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the 2025/2026 national budget will be read in early October. Persad-Bissessar was unable to give an exact date as she said revenue and expenditure proposals are still being examined. However, she said the budget is unlikely to be a balanced one. Read more
15th September 2025
Daily Brief - Friday 12th September, 2025
An insurance broking firm has been ordered to pay its former long-standing managing director in excess of $2.1 million, plus a monthly pension and an apartment in a development, if construction resumes, as promised to him in his retirement package. Justice Frank Seepersad made the order on September 11. Read more
12th September 2025
Daily Brief - Thursday 11th September, 2025
Republic Bank has suspended the Banking at My Fingertips feature on the RepublicMobile app, effectively immediately. The feature allows users to see their own pre-selected account balances on the app's login screen without needing to sign in. Read more
11th September 2025
Daily Brief - Wednesday 10th September, 2025
Three months after she was savagely beaten by five female students outside her school compound, a 15-year-old Holy Faith Convent, Couva student returned to class for the first time on September 8. The student's mother said it was a nerve-racking moment for her child, but she was given a warm... Read more
10th September 2025
Daily Brief - Tuesday 9th September, 2025
Students of some 50 schools nationwide started the new academic year with more than just a new intake of students, as police officers assumed their new roles at the compounds as part of a programme to combat school violence and indiscipline. Read more
9th September 2025
Daily Brief- Monday 8th September, 2025
A clinical psychologist believes there are pros and cons to the government’s decision to introduce police officers in schools as a measure to reduce student violence and indiscipline. Victoria Siewnarine-Geelalsingh told Newsday a child’s development is influenced by a series of interconnected environmental systems, from the immediate surroundings (microsystem) to... Read more
8th September 2025
Daily Brief - Friday 5th September, 2025
The Port of Spain Prison will be decommissioned and prisoners transferred to the Maximum Security Prison (MSP) in Arouca, Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander said. The announcement came during a post-cabinet media briefing on September 4. Read more
5th September 2025