Daily Brief- Wednesday 4th July 2018
THE Joint Select Committee (JSC) on State Enterprises yesterday found that Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) CEO Garvin Medera broke a number of rules and flouted proper procedures since his appointment in October and the issues included hiring of employees without security background checks and sitting on an interview panel that... Read more
4th July 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 29th June, 2018
For stealing $16,000 in car parts from a magistrate, Ronnie Mohammed was sent to jail for two years with hard labour. Mohammed, 58, of Springvale, San Fernando, pleaded guilty yesterday before San Fernando Magistrate Natalie Diop. Read more
29th June 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 28th June, 2018
Heartless criminals have deprived the poor, needy, homeless and children of hot meals by stealing items including food from the Holy Cross RC Church’s soup kitchen on the church compound in Buen Intento Road, Princes Town. Read more
28th June 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 27th June, 2018
There must be a commitment to human rights framework and that commitment must transcend borders says Prof Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Dean of Law, University of the West Indies. Antoine, while speaking at the regional forum on Migrants and Mobile Populations Rights and Health held yesterday at the Parliament building in... Read more
27th June 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 26th June, 2018
Special Reserve Police Naren Beharry, 30, yesterday appeared before a Chaguanas magistrate for allegedly having a gun and ammunition with intent to endanger lives. Beharry appeared before Joanne Connor in the First Court also charged with two counts of common assault. Insp Jugmohan of the Chaguanas police station laid the charges. Read more
26th June 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 25th June, 2018
Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah is describing as “heartless” the manner in which several CEPEP workers in Laventille were put on the breadline. At a media conference held at the party’s Royal Road, San Fernando headquarters yesterday, Abdulah said CEPEP chairman Ashton Ford said the contractor who... Read more
25th June 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 22nd June, 2018
Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union president Vincent Cabrera is predicting people will flee Venezuela to TT in the hundreds of thousands if ever civil war breaks out in that South American country. Addressing a Labour Day rally at Charlie King junction, Fyzabad on Tuesday, Cabrera questioned remarks by US... Read more
22nd June 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 21st June, 2018
Prisons Commissioner Gerard Wilson said he is questioning the timing of the release of information pertaining to compromised locks at the Port of Spain prison. Newsday reported on Monday that the locks at the prison were deemed compromised three years ago and to date the locks were not changed. Read more
21st June 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 20th June, 2018
A recent call for gangsters to become organ donors if they intend to die in gang war may have led to zero killings last weekend, said Port of Spain Division Senior Supt Floris Hodge-Griffith. Newsday asked if her remarks at a police town meeting at Mango Rose, Piccadilly Street, East... Read more
20th June 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 18th June, 2018
This Labour Day, the National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (NATUC) will be celebrating in Tobago. NATUC members include Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BGIWU) and the National Union of Domestic Employees among others. Read more
18th June 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 14th June, 2018
One day after a “hit list” of Rasta City gang members circulated on social media amidst talk of an impending bloody showdown with the rival Unruly ISIS gang, National Security Minister Edmund Dillon led a contingent of the top brass in national security on a walkabout yesterday in Laventille. Read more
14th June 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 13th June, 2018
Eric Ganesh, 18, is expected to be cremated tomorrow after a funeral at his family’s home at St Charles Village in Princes Town. The service is scheduled to start at 9.30 am. Afterwards the body will be taken to the Shore of Peace Cremation Site (Mosquito Creek) in La Romaine. Read more
13th June 2018
Daily Brief- Tuesday 12th June, 2018
An altercation yesterday at 1.40 am between security officer Lloyd Logan, 60, and taxi driver Kemba Olufemi, 37, has left the former dead and the latter warded at hospital fighting for her life. Marabella police said Logan from Perseverance in Couva met with Olufemi who is from Hermitage Village, Claxton... Read more
12th June 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 11th June, 2018
Some Muslims who worship at the Masjid Al Falah in Arima yesterday said they are now afraid to worship at this mosque after a man was shot dead in his car which was parked outside the mosque on Saturday night. Read more
11th June 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 8th June, 2018
Thirty-nine teenagers have been challenged to effect positive change in their communities and the wider society. The challenge was issued by Nigel Baptiste, managing director of Republic Bank Ltd (RBL) during the graduation ceremony for the 32nd edition of Republic Bank's Youth Link Apprenticeship programme. Read more
8th June 2018