Daily Brief - Friday 23rd September, 2016
Why would anyone want to abduct Debe hairdresser Ria Sookdeo as she dropped off her two children, aged nine and five, to school at Picton in South Trinidad yesterday morning? This is the question on the lips of shocked and distraught family, friends and neighbours and even the police up... Read more
23rd September 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 22nd September, 2016
A beaming Akeem Stewart, double medallist at the 2016 Paralympic Games, says failure is not an option for him and has already set his sights on achieving triple gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Read more
22nd September 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 21st September, 2016
Fearing the spread of diseases including the potentially deadly leptospirosis, daily-paid maintenance workers of state utility the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) have abandoned a water purification/treatment plant at Syne Village in Penal which they say is overrun with large rats who seem to be thriving despite the placing of... Read more
21st September 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 20th September, 2016
Job completed. A month after Raul Joseph and his wife Andrea Edwards were stabbed by a man so brutally that Edwards died and Joseph was left paralysed, the killer returned yesterday morning and finished the job - stabbing Joseph as he lay helplessly on a bed inside his Carenage home. Read more
20th September 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 16th September, 2016
A Gasparillo man’s worst nightmare came to pass when his 30-year-old autistic daughter died after she was bound and gagged by intruders during a home-invasion at the victims’ house early yesterday morning. It is believed that Carla Archalal suffocated after cloth was stuffed in her mouth by the intruders, who... Read more
16th September 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 15th September, 2016
Government is “actively seeking” to establish a line of credit to support Trinidad and Tobago (TT) manufacturers’ exports to Cuba, says Trade and Industry Minister, Paula Gopee-Scoon. “The Cuban market is of particular interest. Many of you will join me as we participate in the 2016 Havana International Fair (FIHAV)... Read more
15th September 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 14th September, 2016
Philip “Phil” Simmons has been fired as coach of the West Indies team with immediate effect, ahead of the squad’s departure to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to face Pakistan in a two-monthlong tour, comprising of three T20 Internationals, three One- Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Test matches. Read more
14th September 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 13th September, 2016
A Pinto Road, Arima teen has been detained in connection with a robbery of a grocery in Maturita on Saturday, which led to the shooting death of security officer, Vijay Maraj, and three persons being wounded. Read more
13th September 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 12th September, 2016
Pointing out that 25 percent of the population was already living below the poverty line in Trinidad and Tobago, the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) has observed that any “burden of adjustment” should be extended to those persons in society who were living ostentatious lifestyles and earning salaries of $100,000... Read more
12th September 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 8th September, 2016
Displaying severe wounds to her hands and ear, a 13-yearold girl relived the horror yesterday of witnessing the brutal and fatal chopping of a Piparo woman by an enraged assailant, the girl herself barely escaping the marauding, cutlass-wielding killer. Read more
8th September 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 7th September, 2016
The prospect of pay increases for MPs, judges, and civil servants will be affected by the state of the economy as the chairman of the Salaries Review Commission Kyle Rudden yesterday confirmed the Commission will consider “budgetary” factors in its review of 300-plus official posts. Read more
7th September 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 5th September, 2016
President of the Prison Officers Association (POA), Ceron Richards, is expected to be served with a suspension notice today, arising out of an alleged breakin at his Don Miguel, San Juan home earlier this year between March 10 and 11, in which a vault containing a service firearm and other... Read more
5th September 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 2nd September, 2016
Approximately 3,701 fixed penalty notices have been issued to errant motorists for speeding since speed guns were introduced in April, according to Acting Superintendent Mathura Singh of the Traffic and Highway Patrol Branch of the Police Service (TTPS). Read more
2nd September 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 30th August, 2016
The fight for turf control in La Romaine is being blamed for the recent upsurge in gun violence in a community that, only last Thursday, bade farewell to nine-year-old Cyon Paul, who was gunned down a short distance from his home on Byron Street. Read more
30th August 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 29th August, 2016
Residents of the quiet neighbourhood in Beaulieu Gardens, Trincity were yesterday horrified to learn that a murder was committed in their area. According to reports, 57-yearold Edric Blackburn shot and killed his wife, Rosemary, 55, in a bathroom at their home at 3rd Street West, Beaulieu, Trincity, just before 10... Read more
29th August 2016