Daily Brief-Thursday 18th February,2016
Fears that the rapidly spreading Zika virus would hit the shores of T&T materialised yesterday when Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh announced T&T’s first confirmed case. Careful not to identify the victim or location, Deyalsingh said it was a 61-year-old woman who recently returned from a visit to New Zealand. Read more
18th February 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 15th February, 2016
The body of Japanese murder victim Asami Nagakiya will be returned to Japan for her final interment. Newsday understands that a certificate of clearance to ensure that Nagakiya did not have any infectious diseases will be sought from forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov today. Read more
15th February 2016
Daily Brief- Thursday 11th February,2016
POLICE were last night trying to identify the body of a young woman of Asian descent, clad in a bikini and beads mas costume, who was found under a large tree in the Queen’s Park Savannah yesterday morning, hours after Carnival celebrations ended. Read more
11th February 2016
Daily Brief- Friday 5th February, 2016
THE 31-year-old suspect in the sex assault of a five-year-old Rio Claro girl has a case pending at the Princes Magistrates Court for rape and robbery. The offences were allegedly committed in 2011. This means that he sexually assaulted the five-yearold while out on bail for the rape and robbery charges. Read more
5th February 2016
Daily Brief- Thursday 4th February, 2016
With the nation's attention turned to deaths linked to the H1N1 flu virus (swine flu) and the threat posed by the Zika virus, comes news of the death from dengue of a 16-year-old girl. Navita Mahabir is the first to have died this year as a result of dengue, which,... Read more
4th February 2016
Daily Brief- Wednesday 3rd February, 2016
THE country’s innocent continue to be preyed upon by those in positions of trust.In the latest incident of sexual abuse against minors, police have seized a cell phone containing an explicit video of a five-year-old girl performing oral sex on the 31-yearold boyfriend of her mother. Read more
3rd February 2016
Daily Brief- Tuesday 2nd February, 2016
A THREAT to rape and kill a policeman’s wife, in retaliation for being arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and resisting arrest at Saturday’s Chutney Brass fete in South Trinidad, has led to the arresting officer making arrangements — in collaboration with seniors — to increase security on his... Read more
2nd February 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 1st February 2016
Regional corporations are mobilising personnel and resources in response to Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh’s declaration of a national public health emergency over the Zika virus. Word is that members of the business community have also offered support to block the spread of the mosquito borne virus in the country. Read more
1st February 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 29th January, 2016
There was high drama yesterday morning as police officers used canisters of teargas to literally smoke out a burglary suspect who hid in the aircondition vents of the 51 Degrees nightclub and restaurant off Cipriani Boulevard following a burglary. Read more
29th January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 28th January, 2016
The land on which the Housing Development Corporation (HDC)’s million-dollar Morvant housing project is built is still moving, the Inquiry into the project heard yesterday, as the possibility that the entire project may have to be condemned emerged at the proceedings. Read more
28th January 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 27th January, 2016
XTRA-FOOD chief executive Vindra Naipaul-Coolman could not have been shot and her body sawed up at a red brick house in Upper La Puerta, Diego Martin, the mother of two of ten men accused of killing the Chaguanas businesswoman, testified yesterday at the trial in the Hall of Justice, Port-of-Spain. Read more
27th January 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 26th January, 2016
There are often no symptoms to show that someone has the mosquito-borne Zika virus, and even if it is suspected there is no treatment, yet the infection can lead babies to be born with small heads (microcephaly) and/or a paralysing nerve-disorder known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS). Read more
26th January 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 25th January, 2016
Confirmation yesterday come from Head of the Tobago Division of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), Acting Senior Superintendent Joanne Archie, that “three officers are assisting the TTPS’ Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) in an investigation.” The three officers will reportedly appear in court today, charged with several offences, including... Read more
25th January 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 22nd January, 2016
Two teenaged boys left their school, Success Laventille Secondary following classes yesterday afternoon, but never made it home to their families. Instead, Denilson Smith, 17, and Mark Richards, 15, were shot dead by an unknown gunman a short distance from their homes at Mulrain Trace and Soogren Trace, in Picton, respectively. Read more
22nd January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 21st January, 2016
More than 100 primary schools are failing in this country says Professor Theodore Lewis, newly appointed chairman of committees to review Early Childhood Education and Primary School curriculum and develop a refereed foundation textbook on the history of Trinidad and Tobago. Read more
21st January 2016