Daily Brief - Friday 3rd January, 2020
Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore says plans are well on stream to host the national finals of the medium conventional steelband Panorama competition in Tobago. The event is expected to be held on February 22 at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, from 7pm. Read more
3rd January 2020
Daily Brief - Thursday 2nd January, 2020
Dr Anjani Ganase talks with Dr Stanton Belford about the coral reefs at Toco, different from Tobago but in need of protection. This is also Trinidad’s only reef system. Dr Stanton Belford grew up on Temple Street, Arima, while spending most of his childhood traveling between Arima and Blanchisseuse where... Read more
2nd January 2020
Daily Brief - Friday 20th December, 2019
Five days before Christmas, Tobago recorded its 10th murder for 2019. While details are still sketchy, Newsday understands that MI4 security officer, Mark Nurse was shot following a robbery at the Penny Savers Supermarket Carnbee branch early Friday morning. Read more here Read more
20th December 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 19th December, 2019
Four people reportedly died in an accident at Gasparillo on Thursday morning. Sketchy reports indicate around 5 am the vehicle in which the four were travelling crashed into a lightpole and burst into flames. All the occupants were trapped inside. Read more here Read more
19th December 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 18th December, 2019
After nearly 20 months of labour and $89 Million spent, the newly-renovated President's House hosted its first function on Tuesday. Read more
18th December 2019
Daily brief - Tuesday 17th December, 2019
CUMUTO/MANZANILLA MP Christine Newallo-Hosein has sought to bring a definite matter of urgent public importance to have Penal/Debe and other areas severely affected by recent catastrophic flooding as disaster zones. Read more
17th December 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 16th December, 2019
Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh was crowned as Miss World 2019 yesterday and said she wanted to use her title to work for “sustainable change” for women and their children. Read more
16th December 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 13th December, 2019
Activist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh on Thursday said he recently had to stand in front of a bulldozer and tractor which tried to work on the Debe to Mon Desir section of the Point Fortin Highway. Honked by passing drivers outside the Office of the Prime Minister at Whitehall, Port of... Read more
13th December 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 12th December, 2019
Attorney General and MP for San Fernando West, Faris Al-Rawi handed out keys to residents in his constituency while officially lighting up Independence Square for the Christmas season on Tuesday. Read more
12th December 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 11th December, 2019
Frustration was the order of the day on Tuesday as hundreds of people filled several commercial banks in Port of Spain waiting, some for hours, to exchange their old $100 bills for the new polymer notes. Read more
11th December 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 10th December, 2019
The Association of Compliance Professionals (ACPTT) welcomed the new polymer $100 bill as a move that will bolster the country’s anti-money laundering landscape. “The introduction of this new $100 bill, with its new material and other security features, is a positive (move),” the association said in a statement Monday. Read more
10th December 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 9th December, 2019
San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello and Michael Jay Williams of Timekeeper installed an 18-foot clock tower at Independence Avenue/Harris Promenade corner on Saturday morning. Read more here… Read more
9th December 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 6th December, 2019
Jwala Rambaran, former Central Bank governor, said the Government’s intended switch of the $100 notes to a polymer note was four years too late, and came after the Government had quashed his original plans to do just that. He spoke to Newsday on Thursday. Read more
6th December 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 5th December, 2019
The Port of Spain City Corporation has put its "move along" policy into practice to get homeless people off streets and out of parks in the city. On Wednesday morning, it began with a clean-up exercise at the Riverside Plaza, which is to be followed by refurbishment of the lower... Read more
5th December 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 4th December, 2019
Historically, voter turnout for local government elections is low. The exact numbers will be revealed by the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) in the near future. However, there is a common assumption that young people are not engaged in the electoral process, but the EBC does not give disaggregated data... Read more
4th December 2019