Daily Brief - Thursday 23rd March, 2017
The search for missing 16-year-old Waterloo Secondary School pupil Jesse Beephan ended mid-morning yesterday when relatives found his body in a drain behind the school’s compound, with multiple head injuries. An autopsy done late yesterday evening at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, confirmed that Beephan was bludgeoned to death. Read more
23rd March 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 21st March, 2017
Employees of the Tourism Development Company (TDC) say they are trying to wrap up to meet the 90-day deadline for closure of the company. “Those of us with projects are finishing up but there is a deep sense of despair and hopelessness,” they said yesterday. Read more
21st March 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 20th March, 2017
After being beaten into a state of unconsciousness on the roadside in Mayaro by schoolmates last Tuesday, the 14-year-old female victim was subsequently suspended and made to apologise to her attackers. “My child should not have had to apologise to anyone but she did it anyway. That is not right. Read more
20th March 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 17th March, 2017
A 36-year-old Carenage mother of two was arrested by Homicide Investigations Bureau detectives in connection with the murder of policewoman Nyasha Joseph, hours after the officer’s decomposing body was pulled from the Gulf of Paria off Sea Lots on Wednesday. Read more
17th March 2017
Daily Brief - Thursday 16th March, 2017
Days of searching for missing policewoman Nyasha Joseph ended yesterday when a Felicity fishermen, trawling for shrimp in the Gulf of Paria off Sea Lots, discovered her body stuffed head first inside a crocus bag. Joseph’s killer went to great lengths to try and conceal her murder and had it... Read more
16th March 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 15th March, 2017
Nineteen men, all unionised employees of Oilbelt Services Limited with in excess of ten years’ service each, stood with letters of redundancy in their hands yesterday evening, contemplating how they were going to break the news to their families. Read more here Read more
15th March 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 14th March, 2017
The US State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security “has assessed Port of Spain as being a critical-threat location for crime directed at or affecting US Government interests”. It however identified the capital city as “a low-threat location for terrorist activity directed at or affecting official US government interests”. Read more
14th March 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 13th March, 2017
The 39-year-old man who has been assisting police since the disappearance of 22-year-old PC Nyasha Joseph on Thursday morning, is insisting that he does not know of her whereabouts. The suspect, a labourer of Sea Lots, Port of Spain, told police that he cares deeply for Joseph and was looking... Read more
13th March 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 8th March, 2017
After raising the ire of women weeks ago, by comments about the choices they make in men, Prime Minister Keith Rowley pointed yesterday to a real need for increased efforts to reshape the behaviour of this country’s male population. Read more
8th March 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 7th March, 2017
A 39-year-old woman, who has reported on several occasions that she is being stalked by a man at her Tunapuna home, is calling on police to do more to protect her and her two children. Lian David says she is terrified of the 56-year-old man against whom she has a... Read more
7th March 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 6th March, 2017
Women are not property, to be used and abused, on the whim and fancy of men. This was the warning given by Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar yesterday at a service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-of-Spain held to commemorate International Women’s Day. Read more
6th March 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 3rd March, 2017
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon yesterday apologised for a statement issued by his ministry which said this year’s Carnival celebrations were crime free. Responding to questions from reporters at the post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s, Dillon said, “Definitely it was not a crime free Carnival. Read more
3rd March 2017
Daily Brief - Thursday 2nd March, 2017
Ultimate Rejects led by MX Prime (Edghill Thomas) not only won the 2017 Road March title with Full Extreme but the hit song broke the record for the most number of plays in the competition’s history with 556 plays. Read more
2nd March 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 1st March, 2017
One year after former Japanese pannist Asami Nagakiya was murdered in Port-of-Spain, Japanese DJ Selector Hemo is calling on the police here to ensure her killer is brought to justice. Nagakiya’s body was found under a tree at the Queen’s Park Savannah on Ash Wednesday last year. Read more
1st March 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 24th February, 2017
St Vincent-born calypsonian Lornette “Fya Empress” Nedd will perform after all, in the National Calypso Monarch finals at Dimanche Gras, Queen’s Park Savannah. Justice Frank Seepersad, presiding over an injunction filed by Nedd’s attorneys, in the San Fernando High Court, ruled at nine o’ clock last night, that the Trinbago... Read more
24th February 2017