Daily Brief - Monday 26th June, 2023
Police from Central, Eastern and Western Divisions seized guns, ammunition and marijuana over the weekend during anti-crime exercises, a police statement said on Sunday. Central Division Task Force police held an exercise in Freeport and Couva Police districts on Saturday night when they received information and went to an open... Read more
26th June 2023
Daily Brief - Friday 23rd June, 2023
Speaking about the importance of family, the President Christine Kangaloo warned students about peer pressure from "friends" and social media as they transition from primary to secondary school. Kangaloo delivered the feature address at the San Fernando TML primary school graduation ceremony held at Achievor's Banquet Hall, at Duncan Village,... Read more
23rd June 2023
Daily Brief - Thursday 22nd June, 2023
Social media raged on Tuesday and Wednesday over the presence in RIK Services Ltd Booksellers of books which told the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBT+) characters. While religious organisations questioned the presence of the books, the LGBT+ community questioned the uproar. Read more
22nd June 2023
Daily Brief - Wednesday 21st June, 2023
Relatives of the late Allan Lane Ramkissoon, 35, are demanding answers from NiQuan Energy Trinidad Ltd (NETL) as to how their loved one met a fiery death on June 15. “We want honesty, we want the truth,” his younger sister Ruth Lane Ramkissoon-Balgobin told the Newsday at the family's St... Read more
21st June 2023
Daily Brief - Tuesday 20th June, 2023
Minister of Energy Stuart Young yesterday met with Albert Ramdin, Suriname’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation in Paramaribo to discuss issues surrounding regional energy security. Young is currently in Suriname for its energy, oil and gas summit and exhibition, 2023 which ends on Wednesday. Read more
20th June 2023
Daily Brief - Friday 16th May, 2023
This country remains at Tier 2 Watch List on the 2023 Traffic In Persons (TIP) report for a third consecutive year. The 95-page report was published on Thursday. The designation means the government has not met the minimum standards of the UN TIP Protocol and the United States’ Trafficking Victims... Read more
16th June 2023
Daily Brief - Thursday 15th June, 2023
Trinidad and Tobago was one of the Caribbean and Latin American countries where nine minors were rescued from human trafficking during a joint task force that took place over five days at the end of May. Read more
15th June 2023
Daily Brief - Wednesday 14th June, 2023
Desperate to get to the Tabaquite Secondary School to sit CSEC exams on Tuesday morning, over a dozen schoolchildren hitched rides with complete strangers to get past a landslip along the Guaracara/Tabaquite Main road. Resident Sharen Badal-Ahyew spoke to Newsday on Tuesday morning after she was forced to return to... Read more
14th June 2023
Daily Brief - Tuesday 13th June, 2023
Work permit exemptions granted to Venezuelan nationals in TT registered under the Migrant Registration Framework have been extended to December 31. A statement from the Ministry of National Security said registered Venezuelan nationals are invited to visit the relevant Immigration Division, Enforcement Unit office from June 20 to July 28... Read more
13th June 2023
Daily Brief - Monday 12th June, 2023
Ex-Central Bank governor Jwala Rambarran says the loss of US$913.5 million incurred by the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) in 2022 should "disturb us all." He described it as a "grave fiscal irresponsibility." In its annual report last week, the HSF revealed that it recorded its first-ever loss at a... Read more
12th June 2023
Daily Brief - Friday 9th June, 2023
Two new mobile networks, one owned by billionaire businessman and CEO of Twitter Elon Musk will be coming to TT. Musk’s network Starlink is expected to begin service in the second quarter of this year, while the Blue Mobile Network launches on Friday. Read more
9th June 2023
Daily Brief - Tuesday 6th June, 2023
Residents of Palo Seco in southwest Trinidad are on the lookout for a jaguar, the third largest cat in the world, after a viral video about a dog being wounded by the deadly animal. Up to Monday, the police could not confirm if jaguars were spotted in the community, particularly... Read more
6th June 2023
Daily Brief - Monday 5th June, 2023
Consistent with the Ministry of Health’s overarching strategy to reduce the impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in TT, especially in pregnant women, the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) established the Advanced Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinic at the Mt Hope Women’s Hospital in 2017. Read more
5th June 2023
Daily Brief - Friday 2nd June, 2023
For the first time in seven years the American Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Amcham) will feature panels on cybersecurity in its Tech Hub Island Summit (THIS) carded for June 29-30 at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain. Read more
2nd June 2023
Daily Brief - Thursday 1st June, 2023
The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is investigating an incident in which one of its employees was featured on an online show that exposes men who allegedly try to sexually groom girls. To Catch A Predator, a spin-off of NBC's 2004 series with the same name, is a TT-based... Read more
1st June 2023