Daily Brief- Wednesday 22nd November 2017
The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) will sell the properties of its most recalcitrant commercial and residential customers in the next stage of debt collection, says chairman Romney Thomas. Read more… Read more
22nd November 2017
Daily Brief- Monday 20th November 2017
Amid revelations of 13,000 cases of abuse in the past two years, Children’s Authority Chairman Haniff Benjamin yesterday warned that many youths in society are suffering, some in silence. Read more… Read more
20th November 2017
Daily Brief- Friday 17th November 2017
An increase in gang-related murders in Western Division, has led to seniors giving the division’s Inspector (Crime) their approval to hold talks with warring gangsters and tell them to behave. As of yesterday, 37 murders were committed in the division as compared to 28 for the corresponding period last year. Read more
17th November 2017
Daily Brief- Thursday 16th November 2017
Quick action by neighbours saved the lives of three children, all under the ages of eight, who were at home alone when fire gutted their Eboe Gully, Crown Trace, Les Coteaux home on Monday. Read more… Read more
16th November 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 15th November, 2017
The school feeding programme continues to limp along, as the 87 caterers who are owed millions by the Education Ministry for services provided since May, are yet to be paid. In addition to not being paid, caterers are facing a fresh challenge, as many of them will not be able... Read more
15th November 2017
Daily Brief- Tuesday 14th November, 2017
The Ministry of Local Government has said the final vetting stages of 488 candidates is ongoing and by next year, if they are accepted, the 488 will become new members of the Municipal Police force. The Ministry, in a press release, said the candidates had successfully completed examinations and would... Read more
14th November 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 13th November, 2017
An El Socorro man was shot dead and the person he was liming with injured when they were ambushed by a gunman on Saturday night.And in an unrelated incident, a Mt D’Or man was shot dead near his home. Read more
13th November 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 10th November, 2017
Three days after PSA President Watson Duke called on public servants both at Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) and Customs and Excise Division to rest and reflect yesterday and today, it was business as usual at the BIR office. Read more
10th November 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 8th November, 2017
The limited supply of foreign exchange (forex) has led some contractors to seek payment in US dollars from Unicomer Group — parent company of Courts — during construction of the Unicomer Freeport Campus. This was revealed yesterday by vice-chairman and executive vice-president of Unicomer Group, Guillermo J Siman, during the... Read more
8th November 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 7th November, 2017
Government's new grant funding facility for local entrepreneurs has been welcomed by president of the Manufacturers Association (TTMA) Christopher Alcazar. “The manufacturing sector remains ready and willing to do its part to earn much needed foreign exchange for our country,” he said, “and continues to be encouraged by government initiatives... Read more
7th November 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 6th November, 2017
Two top Canadian diplomats expressed shock at the former People’s Partnership (PP) Government’s failure to take steps to upgrade the operations of local prisons as agreed in an MOU between TT and Canada, said Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi yesterday. Read more
6th November 2017
Daily Brief- Thursday 2nd November 2017
Two days after the Port-of-Spain City Corporation was given the green light to evict homeless people who were using Tamarind Square as a makeshift homeless shelter, they have begun to return to the venue. Read more… Read more
2nd November 2017
Daily Brief- Wednesday 1st November 2017
Businessman and television talk show host Inshan Ishmael was granted $300,000 bail by a Justice of the Peace in the Chaguanas Magistrates Courts yesterday. Ishmael, 49, was escorted into a prison van after the case was adjourned. He appeared before Justice Kanhai at about 3.08 pm in the First Court. Read more
1st November 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 31st October, 2017
Eighty-three deep-sea species, with several new to science, have been discovered offshore in two new deep-sea cold-seep habitats east of Trinidad and south of Tobago by two local marine biologists. The marine biologists are Drs Diva Amon and Judith Gobin. Read more
31st October 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 30th October, 2017
Help is pouring in for a South Oropouche family who have been forced to live in their car after being evicted last week. A father and his two daughters have come forward promising to construct an entire house for Dave Nagoo, his wife Indira and their three young daughters. Read more
30th October 2017