Daily Brief - Tuesday 12th February, 2019
Former Udecott chairman Calder Hart’s challenge of the Las Alturas Commission of Inquiry’s findings of its report on the controversial housing development has started in his absence. Hart took legal action in February 2017,after the report, which was laid in Parliament in September the year before, said he should be... Read more
12th February 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 11th February, 2019
Imagine surviving on US$6 a month and all you can afford is a two-pound chicken or maybe a tube of toothpaste. That is what the average Venezuelan earns per month because of the deepening crisis in what was once Latin America’s richest country. Read more
11th February 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 8th February, 2019
People under 25 should not smoke marijuana, as their brains are are not fully developed until that age. If they are genetically predisposed to psychotic diseases, then it can be harmful. This was the view of Dr Anthony Pottinger, a gynaecologist and oncologist who has done extensive research on medical cannabis. Read more
8th February 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 7th February, 2019
Ten days after six Trinidadian men were kidnapped and held for ransom in Venezuela, their fate remains uncertain. Yesterday, the fathers of two of the abducted men said they had no word as to sons’ whereabouts but they believed that a miracle would happen and their sons would be brought... Read more
7th February 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 6th February, 2019
There are no special favours for social media bloggers who post photos, letters or any kind of defamatory matter as they will face the same disciplinary action as journalists and media houses. Read more here Read more
6th February 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 5th February, 2019
Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah said Venezuelans cannot determine what this country’s foreign policy should be. And that is a matter for the government of this country to deal with. His comments came in light of a march held in Port-of -Spain by a group of Venezuelan... Read more
5th February 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 4th February, 2019
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith is issuing a stern warning to both police and the public not to be part of an ongoing racket where some officers are selling escorts to fete patrons to get out of heavy traffic. Read more
4th February 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 1st February, 2019
Citizens of this country could face “far more risk” in the Gulf of Paria if the situation in neighbouring Venezuela deteriorates any further. This was the view of University of the West Indies (UWI) Institute of International Relations director Prof Jessica Byron-Reid yesterday. Read more
1st February 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 31st January, 2019
Police ground and air assets in south-west Trinidad are being reinforced to strengthen border security as the Venezuela crisis unfolds. Commissioner of Police (CoP) Gary Griffith made that disclosure yesterday to members of the National Security Joint Select Committee (JSC) at a public hearing at Tower D of the Port... Read more
31st January 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 30th January, 2019
Amid the uncertainty of the Venezuela political crisis came news in the Senate yesterday that the Government had on Monday closed the Cedros Port because of an overflowing cesspit. In reply to a question from Opposition Senator Wade Mark, Minister of National Security Stuart Young confirmed the port was closed... Read more
30th January 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 29th January, 2019
The country’s rice industry is “on the brink of total collapse”, National Rice Farmers Association head David Paponette yesterday told Parliament’s Joint Select Committee (JSC) on State Enterprises chaired by Anthony Vieira. The committee heard no-one wants to buy the Carlsen Field rice mill because of a drastic drop in... Read more
29th January 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 28th January, 2019
The “true objectives” of those countries opposed to current Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is to “control the vast resources” of the South American country. The Cuban government, in a media statement issued by its embassy in TT on Saturday, said it also “condemns and energetically rejects the attempt to impose... Read more
28th January 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 25th January, 2019
Police said a total of 12 cars were stolen for the year thus far at gunpoint and all were recovered over the past two weeks, thanks to an aggressive campaign launched by the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) and the Police Stolen Vehicles Squad. Read more
25th January 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 24th January, 2019
Director and founder of the Living Water Community Rhonda Maingot on Tuesday night received the Franco-German Award for Civil Society Action, for her decades of philanthropy and charity work for socially displaced people in TT. Speaking at a handing-over ceremony at his Scott Street, St Clair, home, German ambassador Holgen... Read more
24th January 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 23rd January, 2019
Despite a cut in allocation of funding for regional Carnivals throughout the country, their development remained very important says Darian Marcelle of the National Carnival Commission (NCC). Marcelle said, over the years, there had been complaints from people living in rural TT that they were alienated from the festival since... Read more
23rd January 2019