Daily Brief - Thursday 26th November, 2015
Death stalks the land. Between Tuesday and yesterday, five persons were killed in three unrelated accidents including a horrendous accident that Naparima/ Mayaro Road which claimed the lives of an elderly man, a single-mother of five and another man. Read more
26th November 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 25th November, 2015
San Fernando Mayor Kazim Hosein was left fuming mad and demanding a complete revamp of the local health care system after a man who collapsed mere walking distance from the San Fernando General Hospital, lay on the ground for 45 minutes awaiting the arrival of an ambulance. Read more
25th November 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 24th November, 2015
A trip to the doctor’s office ended in tragedy yesterday when a Princes Town man and his 25-year-old son were killed after the car they were in collided with a ten-tonne delivery truck along the M1 Ring Road in Princes Town. Read more
24th November 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 23rd November, 2015
A police inspector in charge of crime, with more than 20 years’ service, remained locked up in a cell at the Belmont Police Station yesterday during a sting operation, in which he and a police constable were nabbed, which was carried out by officers of the Professional Standards Bureau (PSB)... Read more
23rd November 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 20th November, 2015
The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) temporarily shut down the Caroni Water Treatment Plant, Piarco yesterday after an oily substance was found in the river. This is the second time for the year, an oily substance forced the plant to be shut down. Read more
20th November 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 19th November, 2015
Assistant Commissioner of Prisons Gerard Wilson described the image of Sean ‘Devil’ Coa, as “chilling” by showing his middle finger in an obscene gesture to press photographers while on his way to court last week Friday. Coa is charged for the murder of acting Superintendent of Prisons David Millette. Read more
19th November 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 18th November, 2015
Artie Ramkhelewan, the three-year-old girl who survived having her throat slit by her own father on Sunday, yesterday kept asking nurses attending to her at the San Fernando General Hospital, for her mother and father. “She kept asking, ‘where my mommy and daddy?’ to the nurses who were monitoring her,”... Read more
18th November 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 17th, 2015
Her tender throat slit by her own father and left for dead, a three-year-old girl is believed to have spent hours in the backseat of a car at Penal, bleeding and lying next to the cold body of her 26-year-old mother, who was fatally stabbed by the man. Read more
17th November 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 16th November, 2015
Barbarians! Cowardly Barbarians! This was how France’s Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Hédi Picquart described the deadly ISIS attacks in Paris last Friday which left over 120 dead, scores injured and the European country under a national State of Emergency and lockdown. Read more
16th November 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 13th November, 2015
Medical Director of the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) Dr Anand Chattergoon yesterday called for action against the use of fireworks as he revealed that 11 persons including a two-year-old child and a 54-year-old man visited the hospital on Divali night (Tuesday) and Wednesday for grievous injuries caused by the... Read more
13th November 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 12th November, 2015
The attorney representing a man who was allegedly recorded on CCTV video beating a woman has written to the Prison Commissioner asking that his client be kept away from the general remand yard prison population for his (the accused) own protection. Read more
12th November 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 11th November, 2015
Faced with death while at the mercy of violent waves at sea, Mayaro fisherman Wayne Krishnie Samaroo, 53, called out to his son and instructed him to ‘hold on’ to the boat for safety during a fishing expedition which turned tragic on Monday evening. Read more
11th November 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 9th November, 2015
Tamiflu, a prescriptive drug used to treat the H1N1 influenza or the seasonal flu, is running out at the nation’s hospitals. Relatives of patients who are being treated for the influenza are also finding it difficult to get the drugs at private pharmacies. Read more
9th November 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 6th November, 2015
“Don’tT tell me my brother’s death was accidental...prove it!” That is all the grieving brother of Special Reserve Police (SRP) Constable Govindra Ramroop, 25, said in reaction to him being shot and killed yesterday inside the Guapo Police Station. Read more
6th November 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 5th November, 2015
The government has been given an ultimatum by the nation’s prison officers. Act within a month to improve the security of officers or face protest action designed to shutdown the entire service. The ultimatum comes as prison officers reacted to the murder on Monday of Prison Superintendent David Millette who... Read more
5th November 2015