Daily Brief - Friday 10th June, 2016
Fraud accused Vicky Boodram has been sent by a magistrate to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital for a mental evaluation. The order was made by Senior Magistrate Nanette Forde- John yesterday when Boodram, 38, re-appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates Courts to answer 40 charges, laid in March, when she... Read more
10th June 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 9th June, 2016
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has challenged the manufacturing sector to grow its brands, supply the needs of the country, lean towards exports and earn foreign exchange. In the keynote address at the T&T Manufacturers Association’s president dinner and awards at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, he expressed confidence in the... Read more
9th June 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 8th June, 2016
The Cyber Crime Unit of the Police Service was called in yesterday to investigate a bomb threat which was phoned in at The University of the West Indies’ St Augustine campus, causing an evacuation and classes to be suspended for a while. Read more
9th June 2016
Daily Brief- Tuesday 7th June, 2016
The owner of a popular weight loss clinic in T&T was detained by police yesterday in connection with a fraud investigation.The T&T Guardian was told that the 40-year-old doctor was at her St James clinic when she was visited by the officers. Read more… Read more
7th June 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 6th June, 2016
A 12-year-old boy, tired of being ‘smothered’ by his grandmother, has been detained after he confessed to mixing termite poison in a meal of macaroni, cheese and eggs which he prepared for the woman, at their Rio Claro home on the weekend. Read more
6th June 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 3rd June, 2016
An autopsy which was deferred for two days, finally took place yesterday on the body of Arima Borough Corporation employee Joseph Daniel Logan which revealed that he was beaten so severely with a piece of wood that his skull was shattered in several places. Read more
3rd June 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 2nd June, 2016
There has been an increase in child marriages over the past two decades, with 548 certified marriages of children between the ages of 12 and 16, occurring during a ten-year period, from 2006 to 2016, Attorney General Faris Al Rawi said yesterday. Read more
2nd June 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 1st June, 2016
A team of soldiers joined police officers of Central Division late yesterday afternoon as they stepped up the search for a suspected arms smuggler following the discovery of a hand grenade inside the mangrove in Carli Bay, Couva . Read more
1st June 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 31st May, 2016
The Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of alcohol police task force in San Fernando has suffered a “hangover” with the unceremonial transfer of a corporal last week after his team of officers arrested the son of a millionaire businessman. Read more
31st May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 27th May, 2016
The Strategic Services Agency (SSA) assisted with the apprehension of a man who allegedly made a hoax phone call to police about a threat to Trincity Mall. The hoax brought out the police and intelligence services and spread like wildfire on social media. Read more
27th May 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 25th May, 2016
Yesterday Whatsapp users awoke to find an ominous voice note of a man advising persons to steer clear of malls and other major shopping centres this weekend as they are being targeted for a terrorist attack. Read more
25th May 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 24th May, 2016
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday announced that National Security Minister Edmund Dillon will be going to Venezuela on May 30 for direct government to government talks that could lead to the repatriation of five TT nationals incarcerated in the South American nation on charges of terrorism to this country. Read more
24th May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 23rd May, 2016
In Venezuela, ordinary citizens face tremendous obstacles to having their voices heard. Aside from crippling shortages of food and medicine, they sometimes have to contend with the use of tear gas and water cannons at protests. But not so in Trinidad and Tobago . Read more
23rd May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 20th May, 2016
THE body found in bushes off the M2 Ring Road in La Romaine on Wednesday was yesterday identified as Christal Ramlochan, 69, mother of CNMG news presenter Verna Bharath. Bharath went to the Forensic Science Centre (FSC) in St James where she identified her mother’s body and was later comforted... Read more
20th May 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 19th May, 2016
Through tears of shame, two sisters aged nine and 14, yesterday told police that when they were rescued on Tuesday by police, as a man was sexually assaulting inside his heavily tinted van, this was not the first time he had sexually abused them. Read more
19th May 2016