Daily Brief - Thursday 16th March, 2017
Days of searching for missing policewoman Nyasha Joseph ended yesterday when a Felicity fishermen, trawling for shrimp in the Gulf of Paria off Sea Lots, discovered her body stuffed head first inside a crocus bag. Joseph’s killer went to great lengths to try and conceal her murder and had it... Read more
16th March 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 15th March, 2017
Nineteen men, all unionised employees of Oilbelt Services Limited with in excess of ten years’ service each, stood with letters of redundancy in their hands yesterday evening, contemplating how they were going to break the news to their families. Read more here Read more
15th March 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 14th March, 2017
The US State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security “has assessed Port of Spain as being a critical-threat location for crime directed at or affecting US Government interests”. It however identified the capital city as “a low-threat location for terrorist activity directed at or affecting official US government interests”. Read more
14th March 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 13th March, 2017
The 39-year-old man who has been assisting police since the disappearance of 22-year-old PC Nyasha Joseph on Thursday morning, is insisting that he does not know of her whereabouts. The suspect, a labourer of Sea Lots, Port of Spain, told police that he cares deeply for Joseph and was looking... Read more
13th March 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 8th March, 2017
After raising the ire of women weeks ago, by comments about the choices they make in men, Prime Minister Keith Rowley pointed yesterday to a real need for increased efforts to reshape the behaviour of this country’s male population. Read more
8th March 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 7th March, 2017
A 39-year-old woman, who has reported on several occasions that she is being stalked by a man at her Tunapuna home, is calling on police to do more to protect her and her two children. Lian David says she is terrified of the 56-year-old man against whom she has a... Read more
7th March 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 6th March, 2017
Women are not property, to be used and abused, on the whim and fancy of men. This was the warning given by Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar yesterday at a service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-of-Spain held to commemorate International Women’s Day. Read more
6th March 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 3rd March, 2017
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon yesterday apologised for a statement issued by his ministry which said this year’s Carnival celebrations were crime free. Responding to questions from reporters at the post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s, Dillon said, “Definitely it was not a crime free Carnival. Read more
3rd March 2017
Daily Brief - Thursday 2nd March, 2017
Ultimate Rejects led by MX Prime (Edghill Thomas) not only won the 2017 Road March title with Full Extreme but the hit song broke the record for the most number of plays in the competition’s history with 556 plays. Read more
2nd March 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 1st March, 2017
One year after former Japanese pannist Asami Nagakiya was murdered in Port-of-Spain, Japanese DJ Selector Hemo is calling on the police here to ensure her killer is brought to justice. Nagakiya’s body was found under a tree at the Queen’s Park Savannah on Ash Wednesday last year. Read more
1st March 2017
Daily Brief - Friday 24th February, 2017
St Vincent-born calypsonian Lornette “Fya Empress” Nedd will perform after all, in the National Calypso Monarch finals at Dimanche Gras, Queen’s Park Savannah. Justice Frank Seepersad, presiding over an injunction filed by Nedd’s attorneys, in the San Fernando High Court, ruled at nine o’ clock last night, that the Trinbago... Read more
24th February 2017
Daily Brief - Thursday 23rd February, 2017
According to the Hansard, Rowley had taken issue over Jatras’ position on the controversial Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) legislation. Jatras, who now runs a legal firm in Washington DC, USA, which specialises in foreign affairs and human rights, has launched a worldwide campaign for the US Treasury to... Read more
23rd February 2017
Daily Brief - Wednesday 22nd February, 2017
A man with a submachine gun was involved in a shoot-out with police officers on the streets of Longdenville on Monday. The suspect dodged police officers and their bullets and eluded arrest. According to police, the suspect was seen around 7.20 p.m. Read more
22nd February 2017
Daily Brief - Tuesday 21st February, 2017
One day after speaking with him on the telephone, United States President Donald Trump yesterday invited Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to meet with him in Washington DC. According to an article on the Associated Press (AP) website, “President Donald Trump discussed what the White House calls ‘shared priorities’ in... Read more
21st February 2017
Daily Brief - Monday 20th February, 2017
Six former monarchs are among the 15 calypsonians who will battle against defending National Calypso Monarch Devon Seale for the title come Carnival Sunday night at Dimanche Gras at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain. Read more
20th February 2017