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
Daily Brief - Wednesday 6th June, 2018
Christopher Levia, the father of Kareem Stanislaus who was shot and killed after killing 17-year-old Kobe Brown, aka “Bottles,” is calling for an end to violence as a series of shootings in Belmont and the Beetham have left residents bracing for an impending gang war between the communities. Read more
6th June 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 5th June, 2018
The hurricanes that battered the eastern Caribbean last year were devastating, but even more so was the level of under- or uninsured assets throughout the region, Sagicor Group’s chief operating officer for the Southern Caribbean Ravi Rambarran has said. Read more
5th June 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 4th June, 2018
Anthony Wong, former general manger of Republic Bank Ltd’s (RBL) Electronic Channels and Payments Division, was one of 11 people honoured for dedicating 40 years of their professional lives to the bank. Held at Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain on Saturday, the staff recognition and long service awards ceremony recognised... Read more
4th June 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 29th May, 2018
Exactly one week after she was told she could not wear a hijab during on-the-job training (OJT) at the Lakshmi Girls’ Hindu College, Nafisah Nakhid was reassigned by the Ministry of Labour and Small Enterprises Development. The ministry has responsibility for placing qualified individuals in vacant positions through the OJT programme. Read more
29th May 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 28th May, 2018
Four people including a 19-year-old woman will appear before an Arima Magistrate today charged with larceny after they deposited blank envelopes into a commercial bank’s ATM and then withdrew cash. Newsday has learnt that since May 18, an estimated 4,000 empty envelopes were deposited in the bank’s ATMs across the country. Read more
28th May 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 25th May, 2018
A 32-year-old Fyzabad man is expected to be taken before a San Fernando magistrate today in connection with the shooting of Scotiabank worker, 28-year-old Rostan Mahabir, almost two weeks ago. The man was arrested last week Friday at his Fyzabad home. Read more
25th May 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 24th May, 2018
The Galleons Passage made it through the Panama Canal yesterday and began heading for Santiago de Cuba, but with heavy rainclouds hanging over it and fears that it might get caught smack bang in the middle of a developing storm in the Caribbean Sea. Read more
24th May 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 22nd May, 2018
While agreeing with Health Minister Terrance Deyalsingh that the Couva Children’s Hospital did not have a neonatal intensive unit like those at the San Fernando and Port of Spain General hospitals, Fyzabad MP Dr Lackram Bodoe noted that the hospital did possess similar facilities to the Wendy Fitzwilliam Paediatric Hospital... Read more
22nd May 2018