Daily Brief - Wednesday 26th July, 2017
Within 24 hours, between Monday and yesterday four people were murdered in three unrelated incidents while a man was shot dead by a security guard in what has been described as a botched robbery and two others remain warded at hospital following a shooting. Read more
26th July 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 25th July 2017
This country’s land and marine environment are under “considerable threat.” Planning Minister Camille Robins on-Re g i s made this observation to members of the new board of governors of the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) during a recent ceremony at the Old Fire Station on Abercromby Street, Port- of-... Read more
25th July 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 24th July, 2017
A 31-year-old Guyanese man who buggered and forced a law student to carry out grevious sexual acts was yesterday assisting the Arouca police in their investigation into the two offences. The traumatised victim, who is from Tobago, returned to the sister isle on Saturday night, hours after the incident, and... Read more
24th July 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 21st July 2017
The funeral for media worker Carlet Holder was halted mid-service yesterday, when a woman, said to be Holder’s aunt, walked into the St Theresa RC Church in Woodbrook and declared before shocked mourners and Fr Emmanuel Pierre, “This funeral can’t happen!” With a shocked silence following this announcement, the woman... Read more
21st July 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 19th July 2017
IT look less than an hour of rain yesterday afternoon for roads in Santa Cruz, San Juan and Mt Lambert to be submerged by flood waters. The sudden rains brought flooding and caused several landslips across the North Coast Road, on the way to Maracas Bay. Read more
19th July 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 18th July, 2017
Solomon Baksh was among hundreds of mourners at the funeral for Hafeeza ‘Rose’ Mohammed, who together with her neighbour Videsh Subar, 13, were found with their throats slit inside Mohammed’s Malabar home on June 28. Yesterday, Baksh, 54, and another man stood before an Arima magistrate charged for the murders... Read more
18th July 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 17th July, 2017
A father who took his daughter for a joyride on his newly-purchased motorcycle was killed on Saturday, but the 15-year-old girl is battling at hospital for dear life. Doctors said yesterday that Nicolette Paul who is a Form Three secondary school student, is “just hanging there” and they too, like... Read more
17th July 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 14th July, 2017
Medical doctor Ronald Budhooram, 60, was released from police custody yesterday after spending 72 hours in custody and facing intense interrogation by police in relation to how a newborn baby ended up in the freezer at his medical office in San Fernando. Read more
14th July 2017
Daily Brief - Thursday 13th July, 2017
The doctor was detained after the baby was found during a police search of his office in San Fernando. Police officers said they retrieved the body of the baby boy who had been wrapped in a plastic bag and placed in the freezer section of the refrigerator. Read more here Read more
13th July 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 12th July, 2017
A day after walking her son down the aisle at his wedding, Sandra La Barrie along with her sister Calystra Daniel were killed in an accident on Monday night in Wallerfield, which has also left two policemen at hospital serious condition. Read more
12th July 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 30th June, 2017
Puff n’ Stuff bakery owner Gregory Laing was back home with relieved relatives last night after he was dropped off at the side of the Beetham Highway yesterday at 5 pm. Laing was snatched outside his bakery in San Fernando at 3 am. Read more
30th June 2017
Daily Brief - Thursday 29th June, 2017
In a scene right out of a Hollywood horror movie, Shariff. Mohammed walked into his. Malabar house yesterday to find. it ransacked, his wife Hafeeza. ‘Rose’ Mohammed and their. neighbour Vedesh Subar, 13,. both bound, gagged and dead. The throats of the woman and. schoolboy were slit. For Mohammed and Vedesh’s. Read more
29th June 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 28th June, 2017
There were harsh words of condemnation for the former People’s Partnership government from High Court judge Frank Seepersad for its failure to convene the Defence Council of the TT Defence Force to deal with complaints brought by serving officers. Read more
28th June 2017
Daily Brief - Thursday 22nd June, 2017
A full term pregnant woman, trapped by rising flood waters, was yesterday rescued by a Guardian Media team and residents of St Helena Village, after waiting for over two hours in vain for help from the Regiment and the Office of the Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM). Read more
22nd June 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 21st June, 2017
The TT Manufacturers Association (TTMA) says it will continue to search for a source of foreign exchange to ensure the survival of the manufacturing sector, despite statements by Central Bank Governor Dr Alvin Hilaire that the bank cannot direct the commercial banks to which it disburses foreign exchange as to... Read more
21st June 2017