Daily Brief - Monday 6th June, 2016
A 12-year-old boy, tired of being ‘smothered’ by his grandmother, has been detained after he confessed to mixing termite poison in a meal of macaroni, cheese and eggs which he prepared for the woman, at their Rio Claro home on the weekend. Read more
6th June 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 3rd June, 2016
An autopsy which was deferred for two days, finally took place yesterday on the body of Arima Borough Corporation employee Joseph Daniel Logan which revealed that he was beaten so severely with a piece of wood that his skull was shattered in several places. Read more
3rd June 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 2nd June, 2016
There has been an increase in child marriages over the past two decades, with 548 certified marriages of children between the ages of 12 and 16, occurring during a ten-year period, from 2006 to 2016, Attorney General Faris Al Rawi said yesterday. Read more
2nd June 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 1st June, 2016
A team of soldiers joined police officers of Central Division late yesterday afternoon as they stepped up the search for a suspected arms smuggler following the discovery of a hand grenade inside the mangrove in Carli Bay, Couva . Read more
1st June 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 31st May, 2016
The Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of alcohol police task force in San Fernando has suffered a “hangover” with the unceremonial transfer of a corporal last week after his team of officers arrested the son of a millionaire businessman. Read more
31st May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 27th May, 2016
The Strategic Services Agency (SSA) assisted with the apprehension of a man who allegedly made a hoax phone call to police about a threat to Trincity Mall. The hoax brought out the police and intelligence services and spread like wildfire on social media. Read more
27th May 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 25th May, 2016
Yesterday Whatsapp users awoke to find an ominous voice note of a man advising persons to steer clear of malls and other major shopping centres this weekend as they are being targeted for a terrorist attack. Read more
25th May 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 24th May, 2016
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday announced that National Security Minister Edmund Dillon will be going to Venezuela on May 30 for direct government to government talks that could lead to the repatriation of five TT nationals incarcerated in the South American nation on charges of terrorism to this country. Read more
24th May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 23rd May, 2016
In Venezuela, ordinary citizens face tremendous obstacles to having their voices heard. Aside from crippling shortages of food and medicine, they sometimes have to contend with the use of tear gas and water cannons at protests. But not so in Trinidad and Tobago . Read more
23rd May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 20th May, 2016
THE body found in bushes off the M2 Ring Road in La Romaine on Wednesday was yesterday identified as Christal Ramlochan, 69, mother of CNMG news presenter Verna Bharath. Bharath went to the Forensic Science Centre (FSC) in St James where she identified her mother’s body and was later comforted... Read more
20th May 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 19th May, 2016
Through tears of shame, two sisters aged nine and 14, yesterday told police that when they were rescued on Tuesday by police, as a man was sexually assaulting inside his heavily tinted van, this was not the first time he had sexually abused them. Read more
19th May 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 18th May, 2016
Policemen recoiled in shock and horror yesterday when they found two intoxicated sisters, aged nine and 14, naked and lying on the seats inside a heavily tinted Nissan Navara van. The 39-yearold driver, found clad only in his underwear and a jersey, was immediately arrested and remains in custody. Read more
18th May 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 17th May, 2016
While Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has assured his drivers will be traversing at the required 80 kilometres on the highways, head of the Police Social and Welfare Association, Insp Anand Ramesar, says there was no provision in law for officers to drive above the speed limit anyway.In a telephone... Read more
17th May 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 16th May, 2016
The country is drowning in blood. Within a three-day period from Friday last to yesterday, 12 persons including a woman, were murdered in various incidents in Trinidad, sending the murder rate to 179. For the same period last year, 140 murders had been committed. Read more
16th May 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 13th May, 2016
Forget ghost gangs in CEPEP. It’s now a case of the living dead. About $25 million in payments have been gobbled up annually under the Food Card programme by persons long deceased or who have migrated, Minister of Social Development Cherrie-Ann Crichlow-Cockburn disclosed yesterday. Read more
13th May 2016