Daily Brief - Thursday 27th October, 2017
They came to buy food for their starving family back home, but 11 Venezuelan nationals instead got held-up on the high seas early yesterday morning by masked, armed Trini pirates who made off with US$600 and 600,000 Bolivars (Venezuelan currency). Read more
27th October 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 26th October, 2016
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi said his office has to properly look at the conviction of the Trinidadian Muslim nationals in Venezuela. I have to look at the evidence from another jurisdiction which resulted in a conviction, I don’t know what the back of that conviction was built upon with certainty... Read more
26th October 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 25th October, 2016
Doctors at the Port-of- Spain General Hospital yesterday expressed concern for their safety after a young, female intern was held-up at gunpoint on Sunday night at the hospital and robbed after the assailant herded the intern past four security posts which were all empty, before relieving her of three hundred dollars. Read more
25th October 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 24th October, 2016
A 17-year-old Form 4 student who was one of 40 students transferred from Chaguanas North Secondary School earlier this year when teachers at that school complained of their deviant behaviour is believed to be part of a gang of teenagers who attempted to burn down the Cunupia High School on Saturday. Read more
24th October 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 21st October, 2016
Scared that she might become another rape statistic, a San Juan woman jumped from a moving “PH” taxi on Tuesday after the driver began cursing and threatening her with a baton. A still traumatised Linda Asevero, 35, cautioned other women yesterday as she related the terror she felt after the... Read more
21st October 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 20th October, 2016
The order introducing the seven per cent online shopping tax will be published today and the tax will take effect later today, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said last night. The tax was previously expected to come into effect at midnight last night. Read more
20th October 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 19th October, 2016
Theresa Liverpool died of a broken heart. The 52-year-old woman was unable to overcome the grief over her son’s murder two weeks ago and stopped eating. She stopped trying to live. On Monday she collapsed, spitting up blood. She died later at hospital. Read more
19th October 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 17th October, 2016
Pregnant women living in far flung areas like Icacos, Cedros, Point Fortin and environs are said to be in danger of not only losing their lives but that of the babies they are carrying. The claim comes from former medical director of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) Dr... Read more
17th October 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 14th October, 2016
Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago are becoming numb to murder which demonstrates a breakdown in family life, says Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC. He is urging youths to develop good character and contribute positively to nation building. Read more
14th October 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 13th October, 2016
Deliberations on the 2017 budget will now move to the Standing Finance Committee of Parliament which will convene at 1.30pm today to begin consideration of the 40 heads of expenditure comprising the budget. The committee will have five days to complete its examination of the heads of expenditure at the... Read more
13th October 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 12th October, 2016
Although prostitution is illegal in this country, the police are warning sex workers especially ‘ladies of the night’ (prostitutes who operate after dark) to be careful when out on business. The warning comes after known sex worker Vanessa “Buffy” Ackie was found dead at the bottom of a precipice on... Read more
12th October 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 11th October, 2016
One man is dead and five others remain warded at hospital __ one in critical condition __ after a Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) bus careened off a road and plunged 80 feet down a precipice early yesterday morning in L’anse Fourmi, Tobago. Read more
11th October 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 10th October, 2016
A rapist with the image of an eye tattooed in the middle of his forehead and wearing three gold tooth caps in his mouth is lurking somewhere in Central Trinidad. It is believed he has raped before and will do so again. Read more
10th October 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 7th October, 2016
Slamming Budget 2017 as a “colossal failure”, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday hit Government’s proposed sale of State-assets describing it as a tangled web meant to enrich friends of the Government, who occupy interlocking directorates straddling both the public and private sectors. Read more
7th October 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 5th October, 2016
Anguishedrelatives of 25-year-old construction worker Adam Boney - who was gunned down on Monday night - yesterday pleaded with Government to take drastic action and kill criminals similar to what is being done in the Philippines where over 3,000 suspected drug dealers/users have been killed by State-sanctioned kill squads. Read more
5th October 2016