Daily Brief - Monday 18th January, 2016
The chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) – the Constitutional body charged with the appointment of the Police Commissioner – yesterday said the PSC was not consulted by Cabinet prior to last year’s issuing of two legal notices which propose a new process by which the country’s top cop... Read more
18th January 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 15th January, 2016
A Sangre Grande man was shot dead at his home on Wednesday night, bringing the murder toll for the year to 20. The murder victim has been identified as Felix Ramsaroop, 59. According to a police report, at about ten o’clock Wednesday night, Ramsaroop was sitting outside his Toco Road,... Read more
15th January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 14th January, 2016
The recession cannot. stop the “Queen. of Bacchanal”, so said. Destra Garcia as she. announced she will. be hosting her second. Queen of Bacchanal. (QOB) Concert,. “Queen” at O2 Park. Chaguramas on February. 03. Garcia was. speaking yesterday at. a press conference at. Digicel Box, Queen’s. Park Oval, St James. Read more
14th January 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 13th January, 2016
Prisons officer Roger Miguel, 40, yesterday pleaded “not guilty” to charges of theft of $56,000 from Golden Grove Prison in Arouca and was granted $250,000 bail by Magistrate Indrani Cedeno, in the First Arima Magistrate’s Court. The case was adjourned to February 16. Read more
13th January 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 12th January, 2016
While hundreds of workers, laid off at steel giant Arcelor- Mittal are expected to report for duty at the Point Lisas Industrial Estate-based plant on January 18, 200 workers of Centrin (Central Trinidad Steel Limited) have been given notice of retrenchment letters yesterday, Steel Workers Union (SWUTT) president general Christopher... Read more
12th January 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 11th January, 2016
Gun-toting criminals have become bolder, according to the head of the Port-of-Spain Criminal Investigation Division, Senior Superintendent Donald Jacobs. Jacobs will be replacing Senior Superintendent Johnny Abraham as head of the Port-of-Spain Division, however the Superintendent told Newsday yesterday, that gunmen are no longer depending on the cover of darkness... Read more
11th January 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 8th January, 2016
FIVE murders, which occurred within a 24-hour period between Wednesday and yesterday has raised the murder toll to 14 in the first seven days of this year. Yesterday, two men including one wearing a ski mask and a gun tucked in his waist were gunned down in Belmont while another... Read more
8th January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 7th January, 2016
A botched Caesarean section resulted in the death of 35-year-old Rose Gordon of Tobago. Graphic details of how Gordon died are contained in the autopsy report by pathologist Dr Hubert Daisley on January 4. Gordon, former principal of the Charlotteville Nursery School, died on New Year's Day at the Scarborough... Read more
7th January 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 6th January, 2016
Anthony Smith, 30, was yesterday rearrested and slapped with 21 charges involving human trafficking, child prostitution and assault. Among the charges is that of recruiting a child within Trinidad and Tobago for the purpose of trafficking under section 18 of the Trafficking in Persons Act. Read more
6th January 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 5th January, 2016
In life, Dinnse Jaikaran was very, very close to her brother Junior “Gang-gay” Jaikaran. So much so, that when Dinnse was awakened on Sunday night, to be told her brother had just collapsed and died of a heart attack, she screamed, ran out of the house and collapsed a short... Read more
5th January 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 4th January, 2016
Rose Gordon, 35, delivered her baby girl at the Scarborough General Hospital, in Tobago, on Old Year’s Day. A mother of a teenage girl, Gordon was hoping to welcome her new daughter home for the new year. Read more
4th January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 24th December, 2015
This country now officially has four confirmed deaths from the H1N1 influenza virus (swine flu) as the Ministry of Health has confirmed that the cause of death for 28 year-old Stacy Ramkissoon, who died two weeks after giving birth, was from the virus. Read more
24th December 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 23rd December, 2015
Whatever the circumstances, craziness on the nation’s road is never justified, according to Works and Transport Minister, Fitzgerald Hinds, as he called on citizens yesterday to do their part to prevent road carnage and, injuries. “Craziness is never justified and that is one of the reasons why we are here... Read more
23rd December 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 22nd December, 2015
Relatives claiming bodies of loved ones killed on the weekend clashed yesterday at the Forensics Sciences Centre, (FSC) Federation Park, over differences. One of the confrontations came to blows. The incidents involved relatives of Kerron Warrican, 31, of Mc Bean Village, Couva, who died after reportedly being knocked down along... Read more
22nd December 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 21st December, 2015
The mother of a policeman, who was slain almost five months ago while in the line of duty during a daring jailbreak at the Port-of-Spain prisons, is pleading with the People’s National Movement (PNM) government to honour a commitment of the previous People’s Partnership administration to pay her $1 million... Read more
21st December 2015