Daily Brief- Monday 4th July 2016
CLICO policyholders’ legal adviser Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj said CLICO has $29.32 billion in its statutory fund and it should use the sum to pay the 1,500 policyholders. Maharaj made the comment at a meeting with policyholders at Gaston Courts, Chaguanas, yesterday. Read more
4th July 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 1st July, 2016
A 34-year-old Trinidadian who left his Richplain Road, Diego Martin home in August 2014, accompanied by his two wives and two children, to perform guard duties in Syria was killed last Friday at his workplace during a US airstrike on ISIS terrorists in that country. Read more
1st July 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 30th June, 2016
A seven-year-old boy and his five-year-old sister have been reunited with their mother after police rescued the children from their father who had abducted them in an act of revenge. In February, the children’s mother took them and fled the abusive relationship she had endured with their father for ten... Read more
30th June 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 29th June, 2016
T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) president Dr Rolph Balgobin claims the private sector is contributing to the “strain” in the supply of foreign exchange by “moving US currency out of T&T in excess of their requirements.” He also said the private sector is “taking tax avoidance to new heights,” in that... Read more
29th June 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 28th June, 2016
A masked gunman, grabbed by residents of Brickfield Road in Carapichaima shortly after he went on a Sunday shooting spree which left three persons including a schoolgirl girl injured, turned out to be none other than the village’s bully. Read more
28th June 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 27th June, 2016
A seven-year old school girl who went to a relative’s home to use the bathroom on Tuesday afternoon was gagged and violently raped. The girl told police she was playing outside her Tobago home on Tuesday afternoon when she went to use the bathroom which she was accustomed using. Read more
27th June 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 24th June, 2016
It's often said that David Cameron is a lucky politician who has seemed to coast through politics on instinct and charm during a career that has culminated in six years as British prime minister. On Thursday, his luck ran out. Read more
24th June 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 23rd June, 2016
A High Court Judge has ruled in favour of a church and has thrown out the lawsuit of a resident who lives on the same compound but who challenged loud noise emanating from the Church of the Spiritual Metaphysics located in south Trinidad. Read more
23rd June 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 21st June, 2016
A lime with two women turned deadly for a Petit Valley man as his “lady friends” stabbed him during a fight in a car as they drove along Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain on Sunday night. Homicide detectives are now searching for the two women who are persons of interest in the... Read more
21st June 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 17th June, 2016
Bewildered victims of a leak of hundreds of photographs of nude females on an international pornography site, while expressing anger, outrage and shame on being exploited, have identified at least eight medical students of the University of the West Indies (UWI) St Augustine campus, among them scholarship winners, with whom... Read more
17th June 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 15th June, 2016
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s address at the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association dinner and awards function last week was a clarion call to the country’s manufacturers. He appealed to this important sector of the national economy to expand its productive capacity and especially to boost its exports, hence its... Read more
15th June 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 14th June, 2016
A Government Senator has reported to Fraud Squad that he is being blackmailed by a woman from North American who has posted videos of him in the nude on You Tube. The senator says he has already vast sums of money via wire transfer to the woman in an effort... Read more
14th June 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 13th June, 2016
Head of the Special Branch, acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Ainsley Garrick has launched an investigation to determine why a junior officer of the elite unit released the man found in possession of a small quantity of ganja and a device used to shred the illegal herb on the compound... Read more
13th June 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 10th June, 2016
Fraud accused Vicky Boodram has been sent by a magistrate to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital for a mental evaluation. The order was made by Senior Magistrate Nanette Forde- John yesterday when Boodram, 38, re-appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates Courts to answer 40 charges, laid in March, when she... Read more
10th June 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 9th June, 2016
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has challenged the manufacturing sector to grow its brands, supply the needs of the country, lean towards exports and earn foreign exchange. In the keynote address at the T&T Manufacturers Association’s president dinner and awards at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, he expressed confidence in the... Read more
9th June 2016