TTMA in the News - 14/10/15
A “just and courageous budget” was the response of Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) President, Dr Rolph Balgobin, after listening to Finance Minister Colm Imbert’s 2015/2016 budget presentation in Parliament this past Monday (October 5). Read more
14th October 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 12th October, 2015
A man who spent last Christmas behind bars will do the same for Christmas 2015. Joel Walcottt appeared before the court on Friday after he broke two window panes valued $36,000. It was the second time he smashed the glass of the businessplace. Read more
12th October 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday October 8th, 2015
Residents of Williams Terrace in Belmont are pleading with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to bring relief as they have not had water since Republic Day — a stretch of 15 days. Residents began telephoning Newsday since Monday — Budget Day — to complain that they have been experiencing... Read more
8th October 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday October 7th, 2015
Police and grieving relatives were yesterday baffled as to the reason behind Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) senior manager Derek Hooker’s murder, with relatives saying the 54-year-old man, “lived for the Church”. Hooker was fatally shot outside his Diego Martin home on Monday night. Read more
7th October 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday October 6th, 2015
Police had to be called in to the Williamsville Secondary School, last Friday morning when a fight broke out between a 17-year-old Form Five student, identified as a bully at the school, and a close male relative of one of his victims. The concerned relative had visited the at about... Read more
6th October 2015
Daily Brief - Friday August 28th, 2015
Every year, the Integrity Commission receives between 1,200 and 1,400 declarations of income, assets and liabilities from persons in public life, but it currently has a team of 11 persons to analyse and certify these declarations, the Commission said yesterday. Read more
28th August 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 20th August, 2015
The 18-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed 16-year-old Jernice Francis to death in a jealous rage surrendered yesterday. Before doing so, she issued a call for Francis’s mother to find it in her heart to forgive her. Read more
20th August 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 19th August, 2015
Counsellors continue to work with eight traumatised children in Barrackpore, all members of the Seecharan and Joseph families who, within the space of four weeks, witnessed a murder, a suicide and an accidental shooting death. Vena Alladin, an aunt, told Newsday they have been responding positively to the counselling sessions... Read more
19th August 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 18th August, 2015
University of the West Indies (UWI) Vice-Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles says there is a need to develop a Sargassum Emergency Agency to address the inundation of seaweed in the region. Speaking yesterday at a Sargassum symposium at UWI Cave Hill, Barbados, Beckles said the seaweed would become the “new normal”... Read more
18th August 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 17th August, 2015
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17th August 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 14th August, 2015
Sherry Ann Seecharan and her teenage daughter, who were taken into police custody in connection with the shooting death of prison officer Robert Seecharan, were offered counselling by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. Seecharan, a mother of four, was found dead at her sister's home in Barrackpore on Wednesday. Read more
14th August 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 13th August, 2015
Two purported statements of Brandon Hargreaves, 14, who died while under State care at the St Michael’s Home for Boys in Diego Martin, after being rescued by the police, were yesterday produced in court in relation to charges of cruelty brought against three adults. Read more
13th August 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 12th August, 2015
Two children who were taken into police custody following last Thursday's shooting death of ten-year-old Reuben Reid remained in custody up to last night. By today, the police would know wether they will be charged or not. Read more
12th August 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 11th August, 2015
Highway Patrol Branch police officer Adrian Mohammed and Point Lisas port worker Anthony La Foucade were granted a total of $200,000 bail when they appeared in court yesterday charged with having sex with two underaged girls. Read more
11th August 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 10th August, 2015
The government has not been officially informed about a threat against People’s National Movement (PNM) political leader Dr Keith Rowley, National Security Minister Carl Alfonso said yesterday. Alfonso said that while the police may be aware of the threat, the Commissioner of Police is yet to inform him. Read more
10th August 2015