Daily Brief - Tuesday 5th April
President of the T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) Rolph Balgobin is calling for the agriculture sector to be boosted so that T&T can benefit from consistent high quality commercial food production. Speaking ahead of a mid-term budget review by Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Friday, Balgobin said: “Agriculture has become a... Read more
5th April 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 4th April, 2016
Barbadian all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite forever etched his name into West Indies history yesterday with four consecutive sixes in the last over to clinch a breathtaking final against England in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India. Read more
4th April 2016
Daily Brief - Friday April 1st, 2016
A 13-year-old Form One student of a secondary school in east Trinidad, broke down and cried last Thursday afternoon at the Rio Claro Police Station as she related the rape acts she endured at the hands of her HIV positive stepfather when she was just eight years old. Read more
1st April 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 23rd March, 2016
The T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) supports government’s decision not to purchase the ArcelorMittal steel plant. TTMA president Rolph Balgobin said it is a bad idea to nationalise a company to save jobs. “If these companies are not themselves sustainable they simply become an escalating drain on the State. Read more
23rd March 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 22nd March, 2016
Details of yet another Petrotrin project, in which billions have been wasted, emerged yesterday. A Parliament committee heard that while $3.3 billion has already been lost through expenditure on the litigious issue of the World Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) project, a further $3.2 billion has gone down the drain in relation to... Read more
22nd March 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 21st March
Still grieving the loss of her son, Inez Phillips, mother of slain teenager Denilson Smith, laments that the number of murders in Laventille has led her to believe that lives in Laventille aren’t worth anything. “I can’t remember the last time I saw a dead dog on the road,” she... Read more
21st March 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 18th March, 2016
Students among 21 suspended by their principal for deviant behaviour, are suspects in the setting of a fire in the ceiling in one of the classrooms at the El Dorado East Secondary School yesterday. The early afternoon fire damaged a small portion of the ceiling of the classroom which is... Read more
18th March 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 17th march, 2016
This can best describe the state of a woman’s body, discovered by police, cut in half, all limbs cut off and the parts stuffed in a blue plastic barrel floating on the Mitan River in Manzanilla on Tuesday night. Read more
17th March 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 16th March, 2016
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) yesterday chided global steel giant, Arcelor Mittal, for firing its local workforce ahead of shutting down operations, and offered to help the 644 employees get new jobs. “It is most unfortunate that a company that has received so much from the government and... Read more
16th March 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 15th March, 2016
A teacher at the prestigious Naparima College in San Fernando, is under fire, for a rant against homosexuality, going as far as wanting a gun to deal with such persons and other problems in the world. Read more
15th March 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 14th March, 2016
Government will not be paying the $1 million compensation promised to families of officers who were killed in the line of duty between 2014 to date because no policy was put in place under the last administration to do so. Read more
14th March 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 11th March, 2016
The State will table legislation to expand sanctioned powers of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), empowering that drug surveillance body to deal with a wider range of criminal offences, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi announced yesterday. The SSA is currently authorised to police only drug-related offences. Read more
11th March 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 10th March, 2016
Foreigners , mainly from South America, are in this country coaching local criminals on how to steal money from banks’ automatic teller machines (ATM), ATM expert Derek Carrington said yesterday. Carrington, of Massy Technologies, spoke at a seminar on cyber security held at the Arthur Lok Jack School of Business... Read more
10th March 2016
Daily Brief- Wednesday 9th March,2016
The family of six-month-old baby Maleek Khan was in shock last night after he was mauled to death by the family dog at their home at Charlieville, Chaguanas.Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday, the baby’s grandfather, Neshard Khan, 53, said they still could not understand why the dog, Simba, a... Read more
9th March 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 8th March, 2016
She was jailed after appearing before Magistrate Christine Charles in the Port-of-Spain First Court on 40 fresh charges, brought against her in relation to activities spanning the years 2012 to present. The new charges – involving transactions at districts in Port-of- Spain, San Fernando, Chaguanas, Tunapuna and Siparia – added... Read more
8th March 2016