Daily Brief - Friday 18th December, 2015
NURSES and even patients at the Sangre Grande District Hospital were left in a state of fear, with some patients deciding to discharge themselves when a Mayaro man was admitted to the Eastern Trinidad medical institution on Wednesday night, exhibiting symptoms of the deadly H1N1 (swine flu) virus. Read more… Read more
18th December 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 17th December, 2015
Gabrielle Sohan loved her family dearly, especially her younger siblings Armando, four; ten-year-old Leon and 13-yearold Josh Lalchan. She recently shopped for them, purchasing gifts of toys which she planned to wrap with gift paper and present to them on Christmas Day. Read more
17th December 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 16th December, 2015
Trinidad and Tobago was once again the focus of an international drug bust involving cocaine in juice containers. According to reports out of Canada yesterday, members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested two Greater Toronto Area men for importing approximately 44 litres of liquid cocaine, which could be... Read more
16th December 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 15th December 2015
THE Aranjuez Main Road, outside a popular bar-b-que outlet became the scene of a bloodbath as a police constable and a student of the University of the West Indies (UWI) were riddled with bullets during the early morning hours yesterday. Read more
15th December 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 14th December, 2015
Blamed for the shooting death of his nephew back in May, a 57 year-old Penal father of four suffered a similar fate early yesterday morning when he too was shot dead, mere metres away. Dead is Michael Matthew, also called “Shortman” and “Sprainy” of Fazal Avenue, off Penal Rock Road, Penal. Read more
14th December 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 11th December, 2015
A Valencia trucking contractor has been awarded a little over $4.5 million in damages as compensation after police failed to return 15 of his vehicles which were seized and kept for almost three years. In a ruling yesterday, Justice Ricky Rahim found that businessman Danny Guerra was entitled to special... Read more
11th December 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 10th December, 2015
On The Passing of Former President Mr. Paul Quesnel Read more
10th December 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 9th December, 2015
The largest kidney tumour in the Western Hemisphere and second largest tumour in the world, was removed by doctors at the Southern Medical Clinic in San Fernando last Wednesday. The tumour weighed eight pounds. The largest kidney tumour ever successfully removed in the world was from a patient in a... Read more
9th December 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 8th December, 2015
A Laventile man who allegedly tried to revive his seemingly unresponsive twoyear- old step-daughter with powered electrical cords at his home has been detained by police for questioning in connection with the matter. The mother of the child is also assisting police in their investigations, sources confirmed last night. Read more
8th December 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 7th December, 2015
A family’s weekend outing to the beach ended in tragedy when two teenaged brothers drowed at a beach in Balandra, Toco, on Saturday. The teens — Raphael Rambarran, 16, and his younger brother Ricardo, 14 — reportedly got into difficulty while bathing at the beach. Read more
7th December 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 4th December, 2015
A letter purportedly penned by United States’ Democratic presidential candidate, Vermont Senator Bernard “Bernie” Sanders, to former US Attorney General Eric Holder, calling for an investigation by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) into an allegation that former prime minister and current Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar received US$20 million from... Read more
4th December 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 3rd December, 2015
The reckless decision to drive while intoxicated has led to the arrest of 2,536 persons, so far this year, while breaches of road traffic laws and regulations by motorists resulted in police issuing 46,004 tickets which led to fines to the State in the amount of $46 million. That’s not all. Read more
3rd December 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 2nd December, 2015
Pathologist Dr Eslyn McDonald-Burris of the Forensic Science Centre yesterday stood by the results of an autopsy she performed on the body of Carenage fisherman Brian Smith, who she says drowned while swimming, but whose relatives alleged he was beaten to death by soldiers . Read more
2nd December 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 1st December, 2015
President of the San Fernando to Port-of-Spain taxi drivers association, Hayden Whiskey, has defended the two dollar fare increase, which came into effect yesterday, saying the increase had become necessary due to rising maintenance and vehicle costs. Read more
1st December 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 30th November, 2015
Four local accounting firms are charging TT $3million to carry out an audit of the controversial Life Sport Programme set up under the previous administration which was the brain child of former Minister of Sport Anil Roberts. Read more
30th November 2015