Daily Brief - Thursday 19th January, 2017
With the spiralling increase of crimes in T&T, particularly murders, the nation’s security agencies have launched an all out offensive to hunt down criminals and bring them to justice. Yesterday, at a joint press conference hosted by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon and acting Police... Read more
19th January 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 18th January, 2017
The work of demons in human form. This was how relatives described the execution-styled murders of a man and his common-law wife who were shot in their heads as they slept on a bed in their Guapo home during the early morning hours yesterday. Read more
18th January 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 17th January, 2017
Schoolgirl Rachael Ramkissoon was strangled. This was the finding of an autopsy done by Dr Hughvon des Vignes yesterday at the Forensic Science Centre in St James. The autopsy showed that someone placed their hands around the 17-year-old girl’s throat and squeezed until she died from a lack of oxygen. Read more
17th January 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 16th January 2017
Panicked after a gunman shot his teenaged brother and then fired at him, a horrified Nathaniel Roberts saw a ray of hope when a marked police car came up towards them on a dark empty street in San Fernando on Saturday. Read more
16th January 2017
Daily Brief - Thursday 12th January, 2017
Only one month after being hired as the head coach of the national football team, Tom Saintfiet announced his resignation from the post yesterday, citing a lack of support from the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). Read more
12th January 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 11th January, 2017
Two senior police officers were essentially given their walking papers by acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams yesterday during the weekly police executive meeting. The men, head of the Eastern Division Snr Supt John Trim and head of the Inter-Agency Task Force Snr Supt Simbonath Rajkumar, formerly head of the Northern... Read more
11th January 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 10th January, 2017
The strike at State oil company Petrotrin, threatened by the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) was called off yesterday - the day it was supposed to begin - with Petrotrin President Fitzroy Harewood saying the company has enough fuel in storage to keep the local market supplied and deliver on exports. Read more
10th January 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 21st December, 2016
This was the view of Ag Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) and Head of the Homicide Investigations Bureau Wayne Dick on the successful completion of investigations into the murder of Republic Bank employee Shannon Banfield which ended in a man being charged for her murder and taken to court yesterday. Read more
21st December 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 20th December, 2016
In an exercise involving police and officers of the Counter-Trafficking Unit (CTU), a Chinese restaurant in Port-of-Spain was raided and ten Chinese nationals detained and taken away in a TT Police Service (TTPS) bus. The ten employees of the Me Asia Restaurant at the corner of Maraval and Tragarete roads... Read more
20th December 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 19th December, 2016
The search continued yesterday for two men who left an elderly Central Trinidad woman bleeding and in tears after they forced their way into her home, robbed and then took turns raping her on a bed during the early morning hours of Friday last. Read more
19th December 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 16th December, 2016
Dale Seecharan, who was arrested after being publicly deemed a person of interest in investigations into the murder of Republic Bank employee Shannon Banfield, was released for a second time just after midnight yesterday. This means no one is in custody for the murder of the 20-yearold woman whose body... Read more
16th December 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 15th December, 2016
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard SC, yesterday spent close to four hours with detectives from the Homicide Investigations Bureau perusing the case file in the murder of Republic Bank employee Shannon Banfield. Gaspard, Newsday understands, gave certain instructions to the officers who are to return to his office... Read more
15th December 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 13th December, 2016
The completed autopsy into the cause of death for Shannon Banfield yesterday revealed the 20-year-old was smothered with a towel in the IAM and Company Limited warehouse where she was found. Last Friday, pathologist Dr Hughvon Des Vignes had stated that the autopsy was inconclusive pending further investigations. Read more
13th December 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 12th December, 2016
Homicide officers probing the killing of Republic Bank employee Shannon Banfield have in their possession three short video clips showing her entering the IAM and Company store on Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, another video showing her speaking to an employee, and a third showing her walking to a staircase... Read more
12th December 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 9th December, 2016
The nation was left stunned yesterday on the news that the body of Republic Bank Ltd employee Shannon Banfield, 20, who went missing on Monday, was found stuffed on a shelf and hidden by cardboard boxes on the third floor of the IAM & Co warehouse store off Charlotte Street... Read more
9th December 2016