Daily Brief - Friday 21st October, 2016
Scared that she might become another rape statistic, a San Juan woman jumped from a moving “PH” taxi on Tuesday after the driver began cursing and threatening her with a baton. A still traumatised Linda Asevero, 35, cautioned other women yesterday as she related the terror she felt after the... Read more
21st October 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 20th October, 2016
The order introducing the seven per cent online shopping tax will be published today and the tax will take effect later today, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said last night. The tax was previously expected to come into effect at midnight last night. Read more
20th October 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 19th October, 2016
Theresa Liverpool died of a broken heart. The 52-year-old woman was unable to overcome the grief over her son’s murder two weeks ago and stopped eating. She stopped trying to live. On Monday she collapsed, spitting up blood. She died later at hospital. Read more
19th October 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 17th October, 2016
Pregnant women living in far flung areas like Icacos, Cedros, Point Fortin and environs are said to be in danger of not only losing their lives but that of the babies they are carrying. The claim comes from former medical director of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) Dr... Read more
17th October 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 14th October, 2016
Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago are becoming numb to murder which demonstrates a breakdown in family life, says Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC. He is urging youths to develop good character and contribute positively to nation building. Read more
14th October 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 13th October, 2016
Deliberations on the 2017 budget will now move to the Standing Finance Committee of Parliament which will convene at 1.30pm today to begin consideration of the 40 heads of expenditure comprising the budget. The committee will have five days to complete its examination of the heads of expenditure at the... Read more
13th October 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 12th October, 2016
Although prostitution is illegal in this country, the police are warning sex workers especially ‘ladies of the night’ (prostitutes who operate after dark) to be careful when out on business. The warning comes after known sex worker Vanessa “Buffy” Ackie was found dead at the bottom of a precipice on... Read more
12th October 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 11th October, 2016
One man is dead and five others remain warded at hospital __ one in critical condition __ after a Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) bus careened off a road and plunged 80 feet down a precipice early yesterday morning in L’anse Fourmi, Tobago. Read more
11th October 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 10th October, 2016
A rapist with the image of an eye tattooed in the middle of his forehead and wearing three gold tooth caps in his mouth is lurking somewhere in Central Trinidad. It is believed he has raped before and will do so again. Read more
10th October 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 7th October, 2016
Slamming Budget 2017 as a “colossal failure”, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday hit Government’s proposed sale of State-assets describing it as a tangled web meant to enrich friends of the Government, who occupy interlocking directorates straddling both the public and private sectors. Read more
7th October 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 5th October, 2016
Anguishedrelatives of 25-year-old construction worker Adam Boney - who was gunned down on Monday night - yesterday pleaded with Government to take drastic action and kill criminals similar to what is being done in the Philippines where over 3,000 suspected drug dealers/users have been killed by State-sanctioned kill squads. Read more
5th October 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 4th October, 2016
All Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flights arriving in or departing Jamaica were cancelled yesterday, as Hurricane Matthew barrelled towards the island. CAL stated that flights were cancelled yesterday and today. Three flights were cancelled on Monday, including one departing Fort Lauderdale to Jamaica and two leaving Jamaica for John F Kennedy... Read more
4th October 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 3rd October, 2016
A small contractor. who also moonlights. as a “PH” taxi driver. “to make ends meet”. was stabbed to death. on Saturday night allegedly. by one of his. part-time employees. over money. Michael Ali, 31, a father. of a two-year-old. daughter, of Quarry Village,. Siparia, died some. three hours after the. Read more
3rd October 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 29th September, 2016
Although he is head of Government’s Economic Development Advisory Board Dr Terrence Farrell says he is not taking any responsibility for tomorrow’s budget, the second of the People’s National Movement (PNM) administration. Dr Farrell made the declaration during an interview following yesterday’s release of the Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 at... Read more
29th September 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 28th September, 2016
A 43-year-old man on 23 fraud charges including money laundering, who fled to the US in May 2013, was deported to this country on Monday along with 13 other Trinidadians. US authorities charted a special aircraft which dropped off the 14 deportees at Piarco International Airport shortly after 6 pm. Read more
28th September 2016