Daily Brief - Wednesday 18th May, 2016
Policemen recoiled in shock and horror yesterday when they found two intoxicated sisters, aged nine and 14, naked and lying on the seats inside a heavily tinted Nissan Navara van. The 39-yearold driver, found clad only in his underwear and a jersey, was immediately arrested and remains in custody. Read more
18th May 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 17th May, 2016
While Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has assured his drivers will be traversing at the required 80 kilometres on the highways, head of the Police Social and Welfare Association, Insp Anand Ramesar, says there was no provision in law for officers to drive above the speed limit anyway.In a telephone... Read more
17th May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 16th May, 2016
The country is drowning in blood. Within a three-day period from Friday last to yesterday, 12 persons including a woman, were murdered in various incidents in Trinidad, sending the murder rate to 179. For the same period last year, 140 murders had been committed. Read more
16th May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 13th May, 2016
Forget ghost gangs in CEPEP. It’s now a case of the living dead. About $25 million in payments have been gobbled up annually under the Food Card programme by persons long deceased or who have migrated, Minister of Social Development Cherrie-Ann Crichlow-Cockburn disclosed yesterday. Read more
13th May 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 12th May, 2016
“I will never do it.” This was the response yesterday from Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke after a woman reported to police that he had sex with her against her will. Strongly denying the allegation yesterday, Duke said he is seeking advice from his attorneys. Read more
12th May 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 11th May, 2016
Legislation giving more powers to the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) was last night passed in the Senate after two Independent Senators – including one temporary senator – broke ranks from their colleagues and supported the measure. Read more
11th May 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 10th May, 2016
Mother's Day ended in tears for a Penal mother of three when her son was fatally stabbed in the neck during a fight he had with a close relative in the kitchen of their Gopie Trace home. Read more
10th May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 9th May, 2016
There is growing support for the public stance taken by learned jurist and former Chief Justice (CJ) Michael de la Bastide who is against a call by head of the Roman Catholic church in TT, Archbishop Joseph Harris, who is calling for prisoners on remand to be pardoned once their... Read more
9th May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 6th May, 2016
An 80 year-old grandfather who raped three children in his family remains unpunished and free to roam, bemoaned Children’s Authority director Sharifa Ali-Abdullah. At a media workshop yesterday at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, she lamented that even when child victims are taken into protective care, the Authority’s hands are tied... Read more
6th May 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 5th May, 2016
It is not the function of the High Courts to make a moral judgement on whether it is right for a man to have two wives. For while it may cause hurt for both families, the court’s function is merely to be fair to all involved. Read more
5th May 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 4th May, 2016
A quick thinking 17-yearold girl grabbed her sleeping seven-month-old baby daughter from their bed, ran to and clutching the sleeping babe to her chest, hid behind a wardrobe just as gunmen burst into a Marabella house and riddled the baby’s father with bullets on Monday night. Read more
4th May 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 3rd May, 2016
Maridsa Dick will be part of the Trinidad and Tobago team for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, BraziL from August 5-21, after the TT Olympic Committee (TTOC) announced yesterday its Games Management Committee had no choice but to respect the decision of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG)... Read more
3rd May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 2nd May, 2016
A retired inspector of police, who was bypassed for promotion and who successfully defended a malicious prosecution case in which he was framed of charges by a colleague, is challenging the Dr Keith Rowley-led Cabinet’s issuance of two legal notices which propose a new process by which the country’s top... Read more
2nd May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 29th April, 2016
Finance Minister Colm Imbert has alleged “billion-dollar” discrepancies in the taxpayer-fuelled bailout of CL Financial and Colonial Life and yesterday announced a full forensic audit into the process. Imbert, who made the announcement at yesterday’s post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s, said the audit will... Read more
29th April 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 28th April, 2016
A three-year old Belmont girl remains warded in serious but stable condition at the Wendy Fitzwilliams Paediatric Hospital Ward of the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) after being stung by a scorpion at a relative’s home in Maraval on Tuesday afternoon. Read more
28th April 2016