Daily Brief - Tuesday 24th May, 2016
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday announced that National Security Minister Edmund Dillon will be going to Venezuela on May 30 for direct government to government talks that could lead to the repatriation of five TT nationals incarcerated in the South American nation on charges of terrorism to this country. Read more
24th May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 23rd May, 2016
In Venezuela, ordinary citizens face tremendous obstacles to having their voices heard. Aside from crippling shortages of food and medicine, they sometimes have to contend with the use of tear gas and water cannons at protests. But not so in Trinidad and Tobago . Read more
23rd May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 20th May, 2016
THE body found in bushes off the M2 Ring Road in La Romaine on Wednesday was yesterday identified as Christal Ramlochan, 69, mother of CNMG news presenter Verna Bharath. Bharath went to the Forensic Science Centre (FSC) in St James where she identified her mother’s body and was later comforted... Read more
20th May 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 19th May, 2016
Through tears of shame, two sisters aged nine and 14, yesterday told police that when they were rescued on Tuesday by police, as a man was sexually assaulting inside his heavily tinted van, this was not the first time he had sexually abused them. Read more
19th May 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 18th May, 2016
Policemen recoiled in shock and horror yesterday when they found two intoxicated sisters, aged nine and 14, naked and lying on the seats inside a heavily tinted Nissan Navara van. The 39-yearold driver, found clad only in his underwear and a jersey, was immediately arrested and remains in custody. Read more
18th May 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 17th May, 2016
While Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has assured his drivers will be traversing at the required 80 kilometres on the highways, head of the Police Social and Welfare Association, Insp Anand Ramesar, says there was no provision in law for officers to drive above the speed limit anyway.In a telephone... Read more
17th May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 16th May, 2016
The country is drowning in blood. Within a three-day period from Friday last to yesterday, 12 persons including a woman, were murdered in various incidents in Trinidad, sending the murder rate to 179. For the same period last year, 140 murders had been committed. Read more
16th May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 13th May, 2016
Forget ghost gangs in CEPEP. It’s now a case of the living dead. About $25 million in payments have been gobbled up annually under the Food Card programme by persons long deceased or who have migrated, Minister of Social Development Cherrie-Ann Crichlow-Cockburn disclosed yesterday. Read more
13th May 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 12th May, 2016
“I will never do it.” This was the response yesterday from Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke after a woman reported to police that he had sex with her against her will. Strongly denying the allegation yesterday, Duke said he is seeking advice from his attorneys. Read more
12th May 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 11th May, 2016
Legislation giving more powers to the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) was last night passed in the Senate after two Independent Senators – including one temporary senator – broke ranks from their colleagues and supported the measure. Read more
11th May 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 10th May, 2016
Mother's Day ended in tears for a Penal mother of three when her son was fatally stabbed in the neck during a fight he had with a close relative in the kitchen of their Gopie Trace home. Read more
10th May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 9th May, 2016
There is growing support for the public stance taken by learned jurist and former Chief Justice (CJ) Michael de la Bastide who is against a call by head of the Roman Catholic church in TT, Archbishop Joseph Harris, who is calling for prisoners on remand to be pardoned once their... Read more
9th May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 6th May, 2016
An 80 year-old grandfather who raped three children in his family remains unpunished and free to roam, bemoaned Children’s Authority director Sharifa Ali-Abdullah. At a media workshop yesterday at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, she lamented that even when child victims are taken into protective care, the Authority’s hands are tied... Read more
6th May 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 5th May, 2016
It is not the function of the High Courts to make a moral judgement on whether it is right for a man to have two wives. For while it may cause hurt for both families, the court’s function is merely to be fair to all involved. Read more
5th May 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 4th May, 2016
A quick thinking 17-yearold girl grabbed her sleeping seven-month-old baby daughter from their bed, ran to and clutching the sleeping babe to her chest, hid behind a wardrobe just as gunmen burst into a Marabella house and riddled the baby’s father with bullets on Monday night. Read more
4th May 2016