Daily Brief - Thursday 15th July, 2021
Getting back to some type of normalcy as the world battles the covid19 pandemic requires vaccination, according to the medical experts both at home and internationally. Trinidad and Tobago as of Tuesday afternoon, the Ministry of Health indicated, has fully vaccinated 142,875 people while 226,939 people have received their first... Read more
15th July 2021
Daily Brief - Wednesday 14th July, 2021
Lutalo Masimba, President of the Trinbago Unified Calysonians Organisation (TUCO), popularly known as Brother Resistance, passed away on Tuesday night. Condolences were sent out to family, friends and the Calypso/Rapso Family. Masimba born in 1954, was well known for pioneering the Rapso music movement in the 1970s, which led to... Read more
14th July 2021
Daily Brief - Tuesday 13th July, 2021
Two days after being given the all-clear to resume work, the manufacturing sector was almost at full operation capacity yesterday. President of the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) Tricia Coosal said the vast majority of the industry reopened. Read more
13th July 2021
Daily Brief - Monday 12th July, 2021
While many in the food sector are eager and preparing to open come July 19, not every business that closed in May will be in a position to reopen its doors. Penal Debe Chamber of Commerce president Rampersad Sieuraj said that businesses have been battered financially and fears that many... Read more
12th July 2021
Daily Brief - Friday 9th July, 2021
Scotiabank continues its support for communities and people affected by the covid19 pandemic, as it has been doing over the past months through donations to NGOs and charities. In a specific initiative, over 5,500 people throughout the country have recently benefited from food hampers through the bank’s collaboration with the... Read more
9th July 2021
Daily Brief - Thursday 8th July, 2021
The National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation (Namdevco) has partnered with Prestige Holdings Ltd to increase capacity in the corporation's food-basket initiative. A release from Namdevco said it has been allowed use of Prestige's cold-storage refrigerated trucks and that this public-private partnership would ensure transport efficiencies and mobilise Prestige employees,... Read more
8th July 2021
Daily Brief - Wednesday 7th July, 2021
Republic Bank Ltd has apologised to its customers for the issues experienced a few hours after it launched on Monday. Newsday obtained a statement e-mailed to its customers on Monday night. The app was launched that morning. Read more
7th July 2021
Daily Brief - Tuesday 6th July, 2021
Over 5,000 vaccines were administered in one day to personnel from the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA). In a release issued on Sunday, the Association noted that it had reached another “milestone” with the commencement of vaccination sites for second dose Sinopharm vaccines for the business community. Read more
6th July 2021
Daily Brief - Monday 5th July, 2021
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith said the defiant stance by businessman Stephen Hadeed towards the law and reopening his business on Monday is simply due to frustration. Hadeed’s social-media post, “I am opening on Monday, the bank calling me, the finance company calling me! Let them come and close me,... Read more
5th July 2021
Daily Brief - Thursday 1st July, 2021
CF Industries Holdings, Incorporated, through certain of its production facilities, has filed petitions with the US Department of Commerce and the US International Trade Commission (ITC) requesting the initiation of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of urea ammonium nitrate solutions (UAN) from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago. Read more
1st July 2021
Daily Brief - Wednesday 30th June, 2021
A high court judge has granted an interim injunction stopping the operations of a popular hardware store in Arima owned by former president of the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) Harry Harnarine and some of his family. Read more
30th June 2021
Daily Brief - Tuesday 29th June, 2021
Breastfeeding women can now be vaccinated against covid19, after the National Immunisation Technical Advisory Group approved the Sinopharm vaccine for use by new mothers. Read more
29th June 2021
Daily Brief - Monday 28th June, 2021
Trinidad and Tobago cyclist Njisane Phillip captured a bronze medal at the Elite Pan American Track Cycling Championships in Lima, Peru, on Saturday night. Phillip, competing in the men’s keirin final, grabbed third spot behind the Colombian pair of Kevin Quintero (gold) and Santiago Ramirez (silver). Read more
28th June 2021
Daily Brief - Friday 25th June, 2021
Restaurants are being asked to use fresh ingredients and proper practices to prepare food when the anti-covid19 public health regulations are lifted. On April 29, at a media conference the Prime Minister announced that all restaurants, bars, cinemas, casinos, malls, spas, beauty shops and hairdressing salons would be closed in... Read more
25th June 2021
Daily Brief -Thursday July 24th, 2021
Trinidad and Tobago has shipped relief supplies to Suriname after that country experienced torrential rain and severe flooding in April, May, and June. Read more
24th June 2021