Daily Brief - Tuesday 10th January, 2017
The strike at State oil company Petrotrin, threatened by the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) was called off yesterday - the day it was supposed to begin - with Petrotrin President Fitzroy Harewood saying the company has enough fuel in storage to keep the local market supplied and deliver on exports. Read more
10th January 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 21st December, 2016
This was the view of Ag Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) and Head of the Homicide Investigations Bureau Wayne Dick on the successful completion of investigations into the murder of Republic Bank employee Shannon Banfield which ended in a man being charged for her murder and taken to court yesterday. Read more
21st December 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 20th December, 2016
In an exercise involving police and officers of the Counter-Trafficking Unit (CTU), a Chinese restaurant in Port-of-Spain was raided and ten Chinese nationals detained and taken away in a TT Police Service (TTPS) bus. The ten employees of the Me Asia Restaurant at the corner of Maraval and Tragarete roads... Read more
20th December 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 19th December, 2016
The search continued yesterday for two men who left an elderly Central Trinidad woman bleeding and in tears after they forced their way into her home, robbed and then took turns raping her on a bed during the early morning hours of Friday last. Read more
19th December 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 16th December, 2016
Dale Seecharan, who was arrested after being publicly deemed a person of interest in investigations into the murder of Republic Bank employee Shannon Banfield, was released for a second time just after midnight yesterday. This means no one is in custody for the murder of the 20-yearold woman whose body... Read more
16th December 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 15th December, 2016
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard SC, yesterday spent close to four hours with detectives from the Homicide Investigations Bureau perusing the case file in the murder of Republic Bank employee Shannon Banfield. Gaspard, Newsday understands, gave certain instructions to the officers who are to return to his office... Read more
15th December 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 13th December, 2016
The completed autopsy into the cause of death for Shannon Banfield yesterday revealed the 20-year-old was smothered with a towel in the IAM and Company Limited warehouse where she was found. Last Friday, pathologist Dr Hughvon Des Vignes had stated that the autopsy was inconclusive pending further investigations. Read more
13th December 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 12th December, 2016
Homicide officers probing the killing of Republic Bank employee Shannon Banfield have in their possession three short video clips showing her entering the IAM and Company store on Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, another video showing her speaking to an employee, and a third showing her walking to a staircase... Read more
12th December 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 9th December, 2016
The nation was left stunned yesterday on the news that the body of Republic Bank Ltd employee Shannon Banfield, 20, who went missing on Monday, was found stuffed on a shelf and hidden by cardboard boxes on the third floor of the IAM & Co warehouse store off Charlotte Street... Read more
9th December 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 8th December, 2016
Even local football is feeling the pinch of the recession. This as the TT Football Association (TTFA) head yesterday revealed it could not acquire the services of its first choice coach to replace Stephen Hart and instead had to settle for the cheaper choice of Tom Saintfeit as head coach... Read more
8th December 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 7th December, 2016
The nation awoke to the news yesterday that seven persons were killed in an accident involving a car and a pick-up van which took place Monday night at the intersection of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway and O’Meara in Arima. Read more
7th December 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 6th December 2016
PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro yesterday celebrated the signing of a cross-border energy deal by dancing, wining and even being in a conga line with women dressed in bright, colourful clothing at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. Read more
6th December 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 5th December, 2016
Hours after the decomposing body of 24-year-old murder victim Anil Sankar was found in an outhouse, a nearby resident was shot and killed while attending his (Sankar’s) wake in Claxton Bay on Saturday night. Dead is 33-year-old Troy James, of Pranz Gardens, Claxton Bay. Read more
5th December 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 2nd December, 2016
Little Miracle Gordon, two, and her four-year-old brother Mawaki yesterday perished in a fire which gutted their humble Valencia home. In the wake of the tragedy, two of the siblings’ relatives were detained by Eastern Division police last night following a report that the children had been left home alone... Read more
2nd December 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 1st December, 2016
The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) has indicated that the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation, like all its 13 other local government counterparts, will determine who will control its affairs. This as recounts of results from certain electoral districts in Monday’s local government election continued. Read more
1st December 2016