Daily Brief - Wednesday 20th July, 2016
An assurance of training for TT Immigration officers to better interface with persons entering this country and the setting up of a facility to ensure persons denied entry would have dignified accommodation until they are returned to their homeland, have been welcomed by the Jamaican Government. Read more
20th July 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 19th July, 2016
A previous altercation between reputed gang leader Selwyn “Robocop” Alexis and 32-year-old Thomas “Hamza” Sharpe may have been what led to Alexis' death. A shooting along Freedom Street Enterprise on Sunday resulted in three men being shot dead, and a five-year-old boy fighting for his life at the Eric Williams... Read more
19th July 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 15th July, 2016
An argument between two friends about the over consumption of Bay Rum ended in death early Wednesday at an agricultural estate in Manzanilla. According to reports, the victim Jharkoo Sylvester, 59, of New Settlement Plum Mitan, Manzanilla was last seen alive at the estate with another villager late Tuesday night. Read more
15th July 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 14th July 2016
An ill-advised Health Ministry news release coupled with poor international relations are being blamed for the panic regarding the need for evidence of yellow fever immunisation on the World Health Organisation (WHO) international vaccination cards. In June, the Health Ministry issued a news release advising all regional and international travellers... Read more
14th July 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 13th July, 2016
Minister of Education Anthony Garcia yesterday urged anxious university students to proceed as normal in relation to the admissions process for the September term, as he confirmed receipt of a task force review into the operations of the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) programme. Read more
13th July 2016
Daily Brief- Monday 11th July 2016
Former Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s embalmed body had it’s final resting place in a crypt at the Orange Grove Memorial Gardens, located under the chapel at Belgrove’s funeral home in Tacarigua. Read more… Read more
11th July 2016
Daily Brief- Monday 4th July 2016
CLICO policyholders’ legal adviser Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj said CLICO has $29.32 billion in its statutory fund and it should use the sum to pay the 1,500 policyholders. Maharaj made the comment at a meeting with policyholders at Gaston Courts, Chaguanas, yesterday. Read more
4th July 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 1st July, 2016
A 34-year-old Trinidadian who left his Richplain Road, Diego Martin home in August 2014, accompanied by his two wives and two children, to perform guard duties in Syria was killed last Friday at his workplace during a US airstrike on ISIS terrorists in that country. Read more
1st July 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 30th June, 2016
A seven-year-old boy and his five-year-old sister have been reunited with their mother after police rescued the children from their father who had abducted them in an act of revenge. In February, the children’s mother took them and fled the abusive relationship she had endured with their father for ten... Read more
30th June 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 29th June, 2016
T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) president Dr Rolph Balgobin claims the private sector is contributing to the “strain” in the supply of foreign exchange by “moving US currency out of T&T in excess of their requirements.” He also said the private sector is “taking tax avoidance to new heights,” in that... Read more
29th June 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 28th June, 2016
A masked gunman, grabbed by residents of Brickfield Road in Carapichaima shortly after he went on a Sunday shooting spree which left three persons including a schoolgirl girl injured, turned out to be none other than the village’s bully. Read more
28th June 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 27th June, 2016
A seven-year old school girl who went to a relative’s home to use the bathroom on Tuesday afternoon was gagged and violently raped. The girl told police she was playing outside her Tobago home on Tuesday afternoon when she went to use the bathroom which she was accustomed using. Read more
27th June 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 24th June, 2016
It's often said that David Cameron is a lucky politician who has seemed to coast through politics on instinct and charm during a career that has culminated in six years as British prime minister. On Thursday, his luck ran out. Read more
24th June 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 23rd June, 2016
A High Court Judge has ruled in favour of a church and has thrown out the lawsuit of a resident who lives on the same compound but who challenged loud noise emanating from the Church of the Spiritual Metaphysics located in south Trinidad. Read more
23rd June 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 21st June, 2016
A lime with two women turned deadly for a Petit Valley man as his “lady friends” stabbed him during a fight in a car as they drove along Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain on Sunday night. Homicide detectives are now searching for the two women who are persons of interest in the... Read more
21st June 2016