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
Daily Brief - Monday 7th March, 2016
A south Trinidad woman remains warded in critical condition, teetering on the brink of death, at the San Fernando General Hospital after she was chopped so brutally, that both her hands were severed at the wrist and an arm almost chopped off during a cutlass attack by a man whom... Read more
7th March 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 4th March, 2016
In the end, there was to be no miracle. After a six-week battle for life, baby Miracle Cross breathed her last and gave up the fight lying on a cot during the early morning hours yesterday at the San Fernando General Hospital. Read more
4th March 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 3rd March, 2016
Acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) Stephen Williams has called on divisional heads to deal with the rising incidence of murders which up to press time yesterday, stood at 86 so far for the year. The top cop’s call to his divisional commanders came after he and executive members of the... Read more
3rd March 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 2nd March, 2016
Garcia about criminal students, Garcia yesterday got a new report of complaints from staff members of El Dorado East Secondary about gambling, sex and gang activity taking place inside the school compound by students. One member of staff told reporters of some of the incidents that have happened in recent weeks. Read more
2nd March 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 1st March, 2016
Frustration over money problems and mounting debt is believed to be the reason behind a Couva couple’s decision to make a suicide pact on the weekend and both drink a deadly herbicide. Police said Ralph Boochoon, 41, died on Sunday at the San Fernando General Hospital while his common-law wife... Read more
1st March 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 29th February, 2016
A 20-year-old man was shot dead while offloading musical equipment in the vicinity of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Port-of-Spain, shortly after 9.30 pm on Saturday. According to reports, Lorenzo John, of Trou Macaque, Laventille, was in company with a friend, Nathan Pierre, when a lone gunman walked up... Read more
29th February 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 26th February, 2016
Hours before teenaged students Daniel Hall and his close friend Stephan Singh were murdered on Tuesday, Hall had a frank discussion with one of his associates from a gang, pleading with him not to implicate Singh in the fire-bombing of a vehicle. Read more
26th February 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 25th February, 2016
Two teenaged schoolboys were shot dead in a lonely, bushy track off St John’s Road in St Augustine on Tuesday afternoon in an incident police investigators say was linked to a drug deal which had gone sour. Read more
25th February 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 24th February, 2016
Criminal students are among the population of the Chaguanas North Secondary School and Minister of Education Anthony Garcia, yesterday pledged to have them removed. As a start, Garcia revealed that 24 students — identified as ring leaders in the delinquency that has plagued the school — are to be sent... Read more
24th February 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 23rd February,2016
A 16-YEAR-OLD student of the troubled Chaguanas North Secondary School was arrested and charged after police found details of a ‘hit’ planned for yesterday on a security officer posted at the school. The schoolboy has been charged with assault by threatening to inflict bodily harm and is expected to appear... Read more
23rd February 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 22nd February, 2016
Today’s National Consultation on Education in Tobago will be held at the Magdalena Grand Beach Resort and not the Shaw Park Cultural Complex as previously advertised. This according to a release from the Ministry of Education (MOE ). Minister of Education Anthony Garcia is expected to attend. Read more
22nd February 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 19th February, 2016
Government has allocated $7 million to the 14 municipal corporations to aid in the fight against Zika. Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Franklin Khan made this revelation at a local government reform forum at the Siparia Market on Wednesday evening. Read more
19th February 2016
Daily Brief-Thursday 18th February,2016
Fears that the rapidly spreading Zika virus would hit the shores of T&T materialised yesterday when Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh announced T&T’s first confirmed case. Careful not to identify the victim or location, Deyalsingh said it was a 61-year-old woman who recently returned from a visit to New Zealand. Read more
18th February 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 15th February, 2016
The body of Japanese murder victim Asami Nagakiya will be returned to Japan for her final interment. Newsday understands that a certificate of clearance to ensure that Nagakiya did not have any infectious diseases will be sought from forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov today. Read more
15th February 2016