Daily Brief - Wednesday 17th September, 2025
Police have received instructions to charge a 22-year-old police officer for the shooting death of his colleague. SRP Jamal Charles was fatally shot at the Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government headquarters in Maraval on September 11. Read more
17th September 2025
Daily Brief - Tuesday 16th September, 2025
A host of 19 companies will engage in the TT Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) trade mission to New York from September 15 to 19. In a release on September 15, TTMA said this mission is the first to take a multi-sectoral approach, bringing together stakeholders in food and beverage, chemicals, logistics... Read more
16th September 2025
Daily Brief - Monday 15th September, 2025
PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the 2025/2026 national budget will be read in early October. Persad-Bissessar was unable to give an exact date as she said revenue and expenditure proposals are still being examined. However, she said the budget is unlikely to be a balanced one. Read more
15th September 2025
Daily Brief - Friday 12th September, 2025
An insurance broking firm has been ordered to pay its former long-standing managing director in excess of $2.1 million, plus a monthly pension and an apartment in a development, if construction resumes, as promised to him in his retirement package. Justice Frank Seepersad made the order on September 11. Read more
12th September 2025
Daily Brief - Thursday 11th September, 2025
Republic Bank has suspended the Banking at My Fingertips feature on the RepublicMobile app, effectively immediately. The feature allows users to see their own pre-selected account balances on the app's login screen without needing to sign in. Read more
11th September 2025
Daily Brief - Wednesday 10th September, 2025
Three months after she was savagely beaten by five female students outside her school compound, a 15-year-old Holy Faith Convent, Couva student returned to class for the first time on September 8. The student's mother said it was a nerve-racking moment for her child, but she was given a warm... Read more
10th September 2025
Daily Brief - Tuesday 9th September, 2025
Students of some 50 schools nationwide started the new academic year with more than just a new intake of students, as police officers assumed their new roles at the compounds as part of a programme to combat school violence and indiscipline. Read more
9th September 2025
Daily Brief- Monday 8th September, 2025
A clinical psychologist believes there are pros and cons to the government’s decision to introduce police officers in schools as a measure to reduce student violence and indiscipline. Victoria Siewnarine-Geelalsingh told Newsday a child’s development is influenced by a series of interconnected environmental systems, from the immediate surroundings (microsystem) to... Read more
8th September 2025
Daily Brief - Friday 5th September, 2025
The Port of Spain Prison will be decommissioned and prisoners transferred to the Maximum Security Prison (MSP) in Arouca, Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander said. The announcement came during a post-cabinet media briefing on September 4. Read more
5th September 2025
Daily Brief - Thursday 4th September, 2025
The TT Postal Corporation (TTPost) says it is working with the Universal Postal Union, the Caribbean Postal Union, and other global postal operators to resume accepting postal items destined for the US. While unable to provide a resumption date, TTPost told Newsday, “TTPost is committed to a resumption in the... Read more
4th September 2025
Daily Brief- Wednesday 3rd September, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago artiste Akhenaton “Yung Bredda” Lewis has been nominated for the Best Global Act for the 2025 All Africa Music Awards to be held in Lagos, Nigeria from November 25-30. Other nominees are some of the biggest names in the global music industry including rapper Drake and pop... Read more
3rd September 2025
Daily Brief - Tuesday 2nd September, 2025
At 19, when most people are just beginning to chart their path in life, Dale Parson, who is now the president of the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association, was handed the reins of the local paint manufacturing company, Kaleidoscope, after the passing of his father, Stephen, who built it from... Read more
2nd September 2025
Daily Brief - Friday 29th August, 2025
Felisha Thomas, President of the Public Services Association (PSA), keenly welcomed news that contractual terms and conditions of employment ("contract employment") will be removed from the Public Service, talking to Newsday on August 28. She gave her response to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar's announcement the day before at a Penal... Read more
29th August 2025
Daily Brief - Thursday 28th August, 2025
Venezuela’s ambassador to TT Alvaro Sánchez Cordero has pushed back against claims by US authorities that the South American country is linked to narco-trafficking. On August 7, the US State Department labelled Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro as the leader of Cartel de los Soles, a drug cartel it claims provides... Read more
28th August 2025
Daily Brief - Wednesday 27th August, 2025
As thousands of cricket lovers get ready to descend upon the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba, for the 2025 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL), the police said it has activated a robust and well-coordinated security and traffic management plan ahead of the Trinbago Knight Riders’ home fixtures, to ensure... Read more
27th August 2025