Daily Brief - Tuesday 18th January, 2022
Citing, among other things, a $453 million decrease in revenue in the last fiscal year, TSTT has called in trade unions representing its workers for talks on restructuring. This was revealed in a media release on Monday. Read more
18th January 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 17th January, 2021
The country recorded 404 new covid19 infections and 17 more covid-related deaths according to the daily update for Sunday. This means that since the virus was first detected in TT in March 2020, the country has lost 3,197 people to the virus, while 100,994 have been infected. Read more
17th January 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 14th January, 2022
Former police commissioner Gary Griffith says he is not surprised by the Police Service Commission (PSC) decision to restart the selection process for a new commissioner. He described the decision as an abuse of a flawed Consitution. Read more
14th January 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 13th January, 2022
The Judiciary says it awaits any definitive legal position on covid19 vaccination. It gave its position in a release on Wednesday, in response to a newspaper article on the issue of vaccination of public servants, particularly Judiciary staff. Read more
13th January 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 12th January, 2022
Another person has been found with the omicron strain of covid19 bringing the total number of people detected with this variant to 18, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. "The case had no history of recent travel but was in contact with recently-returned travellers, approximately one week before the... Read more
12th January 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 11th January, 2022
The Zoological Society of Trinidad and Tobago (ZSTT) said while steps were taking place to address the use of fireworks, stronger measures and complete ban on noise-making fireworks should be implemented. In a media release on Monday, its president Gupte Lutchmedial said the ZSTT has been consistent in the view... Read more
11th January 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 10th January, 2022
Commuters and drivers on the Priority Bus Route (PBR) and the Beetham Highway had to wait in traffic for about an hour as disgruntled Beetham residents burned garbage, blocking drivers entering Port of Spain early on Monday morning. Read more
10th January 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 7th January, 2022
Acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob says strategies are being formulated and adjustments are being made to the police’s crime-fighting plans for 2022. As of Thursday afternoon there were already ten murders for the year. At a media conference on Monday, Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds said plans were udnerway... Read more
7th January 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 6th January, 2022
Almost two years after the country’s borders were shut down to prevent the spread of covid19, international flights to Tobago will resume from Monday. Secretary of Tourism, Culture, Antiquities and Transportation Tashia Grace Burris has confirmed that British Airways and KLM will resume flights to the island on January 10... Read more
6th January 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 5th January, 2022
Legal action is being contemplated against a prominent funeral home which is being blamed for a mix-up which led to a woman's body being sent to the wrong family for final rites which included her being cremated, following the funeral in which her casket was sealed because she had died... Read more
5th January 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 4th January, 2022
On December 30, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Port of Spain office donated 200 tablets to the Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ), the Office of Law Enforcement Policy (OLEP) of the Ministry of National Security and the TTV Solidarity Network (TTVSOLNET). Read more
4th January 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 3rd January, 2022
Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won’t be like flipping a light switch: The world will have to learn to coexist with a virus that’s not going away. Read more
3rd January 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 23rd December, 2021
Moments after the Ministry of Education revealed that physical classes will resume for all secondary and tertiary students as well as Standard Five pupils from February, the president of the Movement for Concerned Parents Clarence Mendoza has made it clear parents will not be sending their children to school because... Read more
23rd December 2021
Daily Brief - Wednesday 22nd December, 2021
There was a constant flow for booster shots and vaccinations at vaccine sites in Port of Spain on Tuesday. Newsday visited the drive-through vaccine site at the Hasely Crawford Stadium and the Paddock at the Queen's Park Savannah. Read more
22nd December 2021
Daily Brief - Tuesday 21st December, 2021
With Christmas day around the corner, the Children’s Authority has expressed its gratitude to the public and corporate Trinidad and Tobago for stepping up to support children in homes and foster care throughout the country. However, they are pleading with the national community to look out for the children in... Read more
21st December 2021