Daily Brief - Monday 16th April, 2018
Caricom Secretary General, Irwin La Rocque says while the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) continues to be a work in progress, it is sufficiently advanced to be used more effectively by the regional private sector. Read more
16th April 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 13th April, 2018
Kidnappers have freed Krystiana Sankar, stepdaughter of government minister Stuart Young, hours after she was kidnapped from a friend's home in Diego Martin on Thursday night. Her family paid a ransom of $167,000 and was told where to pick up Sankar. Read more
13th April 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 12th April, 2018
Local manufacturers need to have a sustainable avenue to replace the GDP coming from oil and gas, Christopher Alcazar, president of the T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) said yesterday. “We are nowhere near this goal. As well as we are doing, only export will get us there. Read more
12th April 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 10th April, 2018
A woman who allegedly struck her boyfriend in the head with a piece of iron at his home has been granted $100,000 bail by a San Fernando magistrate. Shelly Sookoo, 37, appeared yesterday in the First Court before magistrate Cherril-Anne Antoine who read the charge. Read more
10th April 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 9th April, 2018
The Usine Ste Madeleine pond once nourished the now-defunct sugarcane plantation but is now being used as a pool of death for murderers. Within the last four months, Southern Division police were burdened with the murders of three people. Read more
9th April 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 6th April, 2018
Police are not properly trained to deal with mentally ill patients and should not be the first responders when those patients become violent or threatening towards family members. This according to Police Social and Welfare Association (PSWA) general secretary Acting ASP Anand Ramesar. Read more
6th April 2018
Daily Brief- Thursday 5th April, 2018
Despite her caution to police that her son was bipolar and mentally unstable, Pamela Stuart-Roopchand says a “trigger-happy” policeman kicked down the door to her son’s room and shot him dead on Tuesday. At her Bel Air Road Extension, La Romaine home yesterday, Roopchand told Newsday about the incident which... Read more
5th April 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 4th April, 2018
Republic Bank has earned two awards this year from International Banker magazine – Best Commercial Bank and Best Innovation in Retail Banking. The indigenous bank has also been honoured by Global Finance magazine as 2017 Bank of the Year while by Latin Finance magazine recognised it as 2017’s Best Bank. Read more
4th April 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 3rd April, 2018
Support for Dominica and criticism of TT is growing, as the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) is the latest entity to comment on this country’s recent refusal to support Dominica’s request for a two-year waiver of its annual Organisation of American States (OAS) contribution. Read more here Read more
3rd April 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 28th March, 2018
Technological advancement and innovation in agriculture along with the active involvement of youth in the sector, were among the many features observed by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley who along with a team of officers from the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries (MALF) - toured a series of agricultural... Read more
28th March 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 27th March, 2018
One day after 39-year-old mother Kumti Deopersad went missing, she contacted her common-law husband and told him that four men kidnapped her and another woman near the Princes Town district health facility. Today marks a week since her disappearance and her worried husband Tilkee Gopaul, 60, is pleading for her... Read more
27th March 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 26th March, 2018
The body of a man with the lower half of his face skinned was found in Couva yesterday. According to reports, around 6.30am yesterday officers from the Freeport Police Station responded to a report that a body was seen lying on the side of the road along Exchange Couva link... Read more
26th March 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 23rd March, 2018
Wayne Caesar, chairman of Telecommunications Services’ (TSTT) pensioners’ committee, yesterday called on TSTT’s management to pay former workers money owed to them. A small group of TSTT retirees staged a silent protest in front of TSTT’s head office, Edward Street, Port of Spain. Read more
23rd March 2018
Daily Brief- Thursday 22nd March 2018
A domestic dispute yesterday turned deadly for a 27-year-old woman, after she was stabbed in the neck by her lover in broad daylight at the Croisee in San Juan. Anita Bahadur, of Evelyn Trace, San Juan, later succumbed to her injuries at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mount Hope. Read more
22nd March 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 21st March, 2018
Five vehicles, including a water tender, were seized from the Siparia Regional Corporation (SRC) yesterday after the corporation failed to pay a $750,000 judgement against it. Chairman Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh said bailiffs representing a former SRC employee, in whose favour the judgement was granted in 2017, descended on the SRC yesterday. Read more
21st March 2018