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
Daily Brief- Friday 23rd November 2018
MANAGING Director of Superb Caterers Ltd, Wayne Ali, is robustly defending his name and the reputation of his company after a revelation in the Senate on Tuesday that he submitted inflated catering bills to Petrotrin for meals provided to the company on November 11 and 17. Read more… Read more
23rd November 2018
Daily Brief - Thursday 22nd November, 2018
DeNovo Energy Ltd has made the first natural gas delivery from its Iguana Field in the south-western coast of Trinidad, to the National Gas Company, said in a release. DeNovo, part the Swiss-based Proman Group, is now TT’s fifth natural gas producer, and has committed to delivering 80 million standard... Read more
22nd November 2018
Daily Brief - Wednesday 21st November, 2018
A call has been made for China to view the Caribbean region as an equal partner when it comes to interaction with media outlets from that region. The call came on Monday during the China Latin America and Caribbean Media Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read more
21st November 2018
Daily Brief - Tuesday 20th November, 2018
TWO of the students who are before the Children’s Court at Fyzabad for attacking one of their colleagues have returned to the Princes Town West Secondary School. The students returned to school last Friday on the advice of the Ministry of Education. Read more
20th November 2018
Daily Brief - Monday 19th November, 2018
The unprecedented rainfall and ensuing disaster which has plagued this country for the past several weeks, is a wakeup call for the authorities to take decisive action against climate change. Environmental consultant Sascha Jattansingh said critical decisions will have to be made in the next decade which will dictate whether... Read more
19th November 2018
Daily Brief - Friday 16th November, 2018
Sgt Michelle Lewis of the police Child Protection Unit has said investigations are still taking place into the incident in which a teacher was assaulted by students of Barataria South Secondary. She made the statement Wednesday at the weekly press briefing at the police administration building, Edward and Sackville Street,... Read more
16th November 2018