Daily Brief - Wednesday 1st May, 2024
Three suspects have been arrested for attempting to defraud the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) and its contractors. An HDC press release said that on April 30, two contractors visited the HDC’s head office with fraudulent documents including the forged signature of HDC managing director Jayselle McFarlane. Read more
1st May 2024
Daily Brief - Tuesday 30th April, 2024
Neonatologist Dr Petronella Manning-Alleyne has condemned what she described as a vulgar narrative being pursued in the media with respect to the babies who died at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PosGH) and the NICU's staff. Read more
30th April 2024
Daily Brief - Monday 29th April, 2024
It has been a little more than a year since Erla Harewood-Christopher was appointed Commissioner of Police, taking over from then acting CoP Mc Donald Jacob in January 2023. Despite an extension in her tenure approved by Parliament in May last year, an appraisal by the Police Service Commission (PSC)... Read more
29th April 2024
Daily Brief - Friday 26th April, 2024
President Christine Kangaloo’s inaugural international food fair “Corps & Friends Can Cook” has flopped. The event, which had tickets priced at $600 each, was cancelled because of poor sales. Read more here Read more
26th April 2024
Daily Brief - Thursday 25th April, 2024
Lawyers for the parents of babies who died after a bacterial outbreak at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH) are asking the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) for US $55,000 to hire foreign doctors to review the babies’ medical notes. Read more
25th April 2024
Daily Brief - Wednesday 24th April, 2024
More parents have come forward claiming medical negligence after their premature babies died at the neonatal intensive care unit of the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH), attorneys representing the families of these infants have alleged. Read more
24th April 2024
Daily Brief - Tuesday 23rd April, 2024
Another baby, unrelated to the deaths recently, has died at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH). Speaking on TV6 on April 22, head of the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) Dr Marlon Timothy said the baby had died at 2 am that day. Read more
23rd April 2024
Daily Brief - Monday 22nd April, 2024
Five teens are being hailed as heroes by their community after working together to rescue two men trapped inside an overturned vehicle. At around 12.45 pm on Sunday, Kabir Bernard, Jelani Rosseau, Tishaan Charles, Tyrique Barrow, and Joel Frank were working and hanging out at their car wash on Crystal... Read more
22nd April 2024
Daily Brief - Friday 19th April, 2024
The Prime Minister asked the nation for patience as investigators from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) gather a three-man team to investigate the growing number of infantile deaths at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH). Read more
19th April 2024
Daily Brief - Thursday 18th April, 2024
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) led 15 companies to The Bahamas to engage in a trade mission, to see if the two CARICOM (Caribbean Community) nations can increase the already $20 million in annual trade that currently exists, Senator Barry Griffin told Guardian Business yesterday. Read more
18th April 2024
Daily Brief - Wednesday 17th April, 2024
Three weeks before the mass deaths at the Port of Spain General Hospital neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), announced in early April in which seven babes died, another premature baby died after contracting two bacterial infections in his blood. Jayden Allister Pierre was only 22 days old when he died. Read more
17th April 2024
Daily Brief - Tuesday 16th April, 2024
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) yesterday announced its leadership of trade mission to the Bahamas from yesterday to April 19. The trade mission comprises 15 local companies spanning diverse sectors including food and beverage, paint, printing and packaging, and chemicals. Read more
16th April 2024
Daily Brief - Monday 15th April, 2024
For Tobago mom Shirese Moore-Beckles, her baby Crytelle Precious Miracle was special. Moore-Beckles, 36, of Whim, did not plan to have another child, nor did she think she could have any more children, so when she and her husband found out she was pregnant, the couple was elated. Read more
15th April 2024
Daily Brief - Friday 12th April, 2024
Adrian Acosta, president of the TT Taxi Drivers Network, says some taxi drivers are losing their licenses without crossing the maximum number of demerit points. On Thursday during a protest at the Ministry of Works and Transport in Port-of-Spain, Acosta said “The point system, as it stands used to be... Read more
12th April 2024
Daily Brief - Thursday 11th April, 2024
So gruesome was the scene at the Fifth Street, Arouca home where four-year-old Amarah Lallitte was murdered that police officers were left traumatised. On April 8, Lallitte was beheaded by a male relative during a domestic dispute. Read more
11th April 2024