Daily Brief - Thursday 10th May, 2018
Timely disbursement of VAT refunds, re-introducing an export allowance, measures to tackle crime and reviving the Economic Development Advisory Board are on the mid-year review wish lists of the TT Manufacturers' Association (TTMA) and the Couva/Pt Lisas Chamber of Commerce (CPLCC). Read more
10th May 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 9th May, 2018
Eager to play football as he celebrated his 16th birthday yesterday, Noah Simmons woke up early and went across to his cousin’s house for a cup of tea. It was there a man met him shortly after 8am and warned him to stop speaking to a girl from the community. Read more
9th May 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 8th May, 2018
Two security guards were among five people arrested on Sunday at Piarco International Airport just as two suitcases filled with $34.4 million in cocaine was being loaded into the cargo hold of a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) aircraft. The flight was about to depart for New York. Read more
8th May 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 7th May, 2018
T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) Christopher Alcazar says they are pleased the Export Import Bank of T&T Ltd (Eximbank) is now an authorised distributor of foreign exchange to local manufacturers. During the launch of the initiative on Friday, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said the Eximbank facility will provide a capital injection... Read more
7th May 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 4th May, 2018
A police officer who engaged in a gunbattle with a colleague over a woman on Wednesday evening, later turned to his rival and expressed sorrow for wounding him as they both lay side by side awaiting emergency treatment at Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) in Mt Hope. Read more
4th May 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 3rd May, 2018
All is set for over 19,000 primary school students to sit the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam today. Head of the TT Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA) Lynsley Doodhai told Newsday he received no complaints about schools not being ready for the exam. Read more
3rd May 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 2nd May, 2018
Tevin Jordan was sentenced to a total of eight months in jail yesterday for driving without a drivers’ permit and without insurance. The father of three will mark his 26th birthday today. Through his attorney Analee Girwar, Jordan said he was taking one of his children to the hospital after... Read more
2nd May 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 1st May, 2018
Angry, frustrated and depressed over his son’s kidnapping, Port of Spain businessman Farrell Cuffy yesterday sent a strong message to the kidnappers who snatched his son Darrell last Wednesday. “I will not pay one red dollar in ransom for my son’s return home.” Farrell also declared, “I not paying a... Read more
1st May 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 30th April, 2018
A “junior sec” system in the High Court to facilitate a CEPEP contract in the magistrates’ court. That was the way San Fernando lawyers described the new configuration of the southern city’s Supreme Court, where judges adjourn their hearings every day after lunch. Read more
30th April 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 27th April, 2018
The 18-year-old son of a Port of Spain businessman was snatched by two kidnappers on Wednesday night as the teen drove his father’s black hatchback BMW along Collens Road in Fairways, Maraval. Darrell Cuffie remained unaccounted for up until yesterday. Read more
27th April 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 26th April, 2018
A father of one who was struck on the head with a rum bottle has died. Roshan Ramdial, 43, died at the San Fernando General Hospital last Thursday night, the day after he was injured. An autopsy on Friday revealed he died of blunt force cranio-cerebral trauma. Read more
26th April 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 25th April, 2018
The 15-year-old Presentation College, Chaguanas student who was the main suspect in a chopping incident in which his mother’s right hand was severed and she was also chopped to the back of the head, may be released from police custody soon. Read more
25th April 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 24th April, 2018
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says this country has broken international refugee law. In a release yesterday, the Geneva-based UNHCR, said that it “deeply regrets the deportation” of 82 Venezuelan nationals on Saturday. Read more
24th April 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 23rd April, 2018
Members of the Child Protection Unit were yesterday investigating the sexual assault of a six-year-old girl at her grandmother’s home in Diego Martin on Saturday. According to police reports, the girl’s mother was doing chores when she went to look for her daughter to give her lunch. Read more
23rd April 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 20th April, 2018
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday he was “reasonably confident” that the US$100 million facility available to manufacturers through the Export Import Bank (Eximbank) by the end of the month. Manufacturers, on the other hand, are sceptical. Read more
20th April 2018