Daily Brief - Thursday 17th March, 2022
Scotiabank TT Ltd has made several strides with respect to digital transformation during the covid19 pandemic. Managing director Gayle Pazos gave an update on the bank's digital transformation initiatives at its virtual 52nd annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. Read more
17th March 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 16th March, 2022
The first meeting of the Anti-Illicit Trade Taskforce’s working group on tobacco discussed several priority matters key to combating the illicit trade in the item locally. In a release, the working group said these included the estimation and identification of the trade locally, current high levels of taxation and key... Read more
16th March 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 15th March, 2022
Hundreds of thousands of Republic Financial Holdings Ltd customers who operate businesses in the SME sector stand to benefit from a partnership between RFHL and the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA) with the intention of increasing export potential and capacity. Read more
15th March 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 14th March, 2022
Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon has said the first meeting of the Anti-Illicit Trade Task Force’s working group on tobacco will take place on Monday. Speaking at the ribbon-cutting and recommissioning of the secondary manufacturing plant at the West Indian Tobacco Company (Witco), Champs Fleurs, on Friday, Gopee-Scoon said... Read more
14th March 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 11th March, 2022
A new TT $688 million e-Teck park in Pheonix Park, Savonetta is expected to be the hub for diversification, in an area that has a major port, as the country’s economy recovers from the covid19 pandemic, said Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon. Read more
11th March 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 10th March, 2022
THA Bethel/New Grange representative pastor Terance Baynes has said pipe-borne water supplies should be restored in parts of the electoral district some time today (Thursday). A handful of angry residents held a protest around noon on Wednesday, complaining about the lack of water in the area. Read more
10th March 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 09th March, 2022
More than two weeks after 33-year-old Zephaniah Harripaul was kidnapped from his Chaguaramas workplace, investigators have no fresh leads as to his location. Harripaul was at his workplace Tucker Energy Services Ltd, on February 17 when he was seen being bundled into a grey or silver-coloured car. Read more
9th March 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 8th March, 2022
Dr Wayne Frederick, surgeon and president of Howard University in Washington, DC, was awarded the nation's highest honour, the Order of the Republic of TT (ORTT), for medicine and education, at the postponed National Awards for 2020. The ORTT is given for distinguished and outstanding service to TT. Read more
8th March 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 7th March, 2022
Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon has presented two local manufactures with grant funding to assist with the acquisition of new machinery and equipment. In a release, the ministry said the total grant funding amounted to $471,867. Read more
7th March 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 4th March, 2022
The widow of diver Rishi Nagessar identified his body on Thursday morning at the Forensic Sciences Centre (FSC), St James. Vanessa Kussie was accompanied by one of her sons and relatives Angi Benjamin and Allan Seepersad, who arrived at the FSC shortly after 9 am and were called inside around... Read more
4th March 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 3rd March, 2022
The Trinidad and Tobago national trying to flee Ukraine amid the Russian invasion is now at the Ukrainian border, Minister of Foreign Affairs Amery Browne has reported. In a conversation with Newsday, Browne said the national, along with his wife, is waiting in lines at the border, trying to get across. Read more
3rd March 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 2nd March, 2022
Joseph Henry left the Forensic Science Centre (FSC) building eyes glazed as he hit his hands together in anguish five times, then held his head, looked to the skies and let out a cry of grief. He had just seen the body of his beloved son, Yusuf, lying on a trolley. Read more
2nd March 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 1st March, 2022
It appears Government has made a final decision on the future of the debt-ridden Education Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL). In a purported notice of termination to staff, which has been circulating widely on social media on Monday, acting chairman of the EFCL Savitree Seepersad said the company was “unable to... Read more
1st March 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 28th February, 2022
The families of four divers who went missing while working on a 36-inch underwater crude oil pipeline in Pointe-a-Pierre on Friday had their hopes for the men’s successful rescue dashed when officials of Paria Fuel Trading Company announced that they are presumed dead. Read more
28th February 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 25th February, 2022
Residents of Cherry Crescent, Westmoorings, are in mourning after a home invasion ended with the death of one of their neighbours and the deaths of two suspected bandits. Police said Nicole Moses, 49, was at her home at around 8.15 am when two bandits jumped over the front wall of... Read more
25th February 2022