Daily Brief - Tuesday 18th December, 2018
THE PRIME Minister on Monday outlined measures to assist former Petrotrin employees, including priority housing, agriculture incentives and possible regularisation for those on Petrotrin lands. He stressed, however, that was not a licence for squatting. Read more here… Read more
18th December 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 17th December, 2018
A 29-year old prison officer assigned to the remand section of the Maximum Security Prison went to the Arouca Police Station on Saturday and reported a death threat made by a remand prisoner awaiting trial for murder. Read more
17th December 2018
Daily Brief- Friday 14th December 2018
The now highly publicised "Sex Island" fete is not apparently taking place this weekend in T&T as previously advertised and reported, but on a neighbouring Venezuelan island - Isla Margarita.However, law enforcement agencies are not letting their guards down despite this latest information reported in the United Kingdom media yesterday. Read more
14th December 2018
Daily Brief- Thursday 13th December 2018
OPPOSITION activist Devant Maharaj has been criticised by some yet praised by others for revealing the personal cell phone number of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and other senior Cabinet ministers. Read more… Read more
13th December 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 11th December 2018
THE TWO women held last week Tuesday at an apartment at Regents Gardens, Westmoorings, during a multi-million-dollar drug bust have both been granted bail of $6 million each. Krystiana Sankar and Yannis Pebbles Augustine were each granted bail by Port of Spain magistrate Aden Stroude when they reappeared in the... Read more
11th December 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 12th December, 2018
Miss World TT, Ysabel Bisnath, did not make it into the top 30 of the 2018 Miss World pageant in Sanya, China yesterday, but many Trinis still believe she is a winner. Barbados and Jamaica made it into the top 30 with Jamaica’s Kadijah Robinson getting into the top five... Read more
10th December 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 7th December, 2018
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) is seeking to applaud Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon for including the private sector in discussions regarding the Caribbean Heads of Government meeting that took place earlier this week. Read more
7th December 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 6th December, 2018
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association is commending the Commissioner of Police on the progress made in policing across the country since his appointment to the Top Cop position in August. The TTMA notes the many positive outcomes of the operations, which Commissioner Griffith has spearheaded within recent times, inclusive... Read more
6th December 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 5th December 2018
ENERGY Minister Franklin Khan says all former Petrotrin employees have received severance payments. “As I speak all workers on the Petrotrin payroll have been paid including the 1,129 non-permanent workers who qualify for ex gratia payments.” Read more here Read more
5th December 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 4th December, 2018
The man who is believed to have orchestrated the daring, daylight kidnapping last week of UWI manager Maria Dass-Supersad, at the St Augustine campus, did so from behind prison walls. National Security intelligence sources said this prisoner is suspected of running an illegal operation from his prison cell and has... Read more
4th December 2018
Daily Brief- Monday 3rd December 2018
An elderly Cunupia couple was tied up and robbed by four bandits at gunpoint on yesterday morning.The 71-year-old woman and her 74-year-old husband, who did not want to be named, told the T&T Guardian the bandits stormed their Munroe Road home around 7 am. Read more
3rd December 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 30th November, 2018
Maria Dass-Supersad was kept in a makeshift camp deep in the Caura forests by two kidnappers, who used a sedative to drug her while they kept her under close watch. In the camp, the two made contact with Dass-Supersad’s loved ones and demanded $1m for her safe release. Read more
30th November 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 28th November, 2018
Former minister of food production, land and agriculture Vasant Bharath yesterday called on the Prime Minister to meet with him and members of the TT Agricultural Society to discuss the future of the St Augustine Nurseries and to prevent any development in the area. Read more
28th November 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 27th November, 2018
“The cycle of babies having babies, which has contributed to a lot of ills in our society, must be broken,” says Rennie Thomas-Caines, dean at Queen’s Royal College. Thomas-Caines was among other speakers at the Positive Community, Positive Role Models symposium held at the Enterprise Government Primary School on Saturday. Read more
27th November 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 26th November, 2018
Two people were held with five scarlet ibis carcasses at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary, yesterday. Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat announced the arrest in a Facebook post. “There is no doubt today that the scarlet ibis is an Environmentally Sensitive Species (ESS) under the Environmentally Sensitive Species Rules and possession involves... Read more
26th November 2018