Daily Brief - Friday 22nd April, 2016
Although an autopsy done on Monday proved inconclusive, Forensic Pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov yesterday said he firmly believes Felicia Persad’s death is a homicide based on the fact that her body was found with the hands and feet bound and her mouth gagged. Read more
22nd April 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 21st April, 2016
Out of the mouth of babes, good ideas can sometimes come. Parliamentarians yesterday got a little help in their quest to solve the daunting problems facing the education system as for the first time in history, students appeared before a Parliament committee to answer questions and provide solutions on school... Read more
21st April 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 19th April, 2016
An autopsy done yesterday at the Forensic Science Centre on the body of a woman who was fished out of the Mitan River in Manzanilla last week, could not show how she was murdered. What the pathologist who performed the autopsy did note however, was that the woman’s body was... Read more
19th April 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 18th April, 2016
Some police officers must take blame for the “galloping murder rate” in the country because, in their respective communities, like so many citizens, they too have been turning a blind eye to crimes being committed. And yesterday, as he called on fellow officers to serve with integrity, secretary of the... Read more
18th April 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 15th April, 2016
Hard times have hit just about everyone. The State, workers and taxpayers are feeling the pinch. And, according to religious leaders, churches too. Anglican Bishop Claude Berkley yesterday said the church has had to scale-down its annual Family Day in an effort to save $300,000. Read more
15th April 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 14th April, 2016
The Nissan Tiida, whose male drivers/ owners are locally known as ‘wetman’, is the main car targetted by thieves, police yesterday stated, adding that for the first four months of this year, reports of vehicles being stolen have increased. Read more
14th April 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 8th April, 2016
Police Constable Anson Benjamin, 44, took his last breath before his family and a few colleagues at San Fernando General Hospital yesterday, dying three days after a bandit shot him in the head during a robbery at a supermarket in Ste Madeleine, on Monday night. Read more
8th April 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 7th April, 2016
Unless Trinidad and Tobago’s (TT) existing industrial relations (IR) system is reformed, five major business groups are warning that the “much-needed” economic diversification and preservation of jobs is unlikely to occur. The call to action comes from the American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago (AmCham), the Energy Chamber... Read more
7th April 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 5th April
President of the T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) Rolph Balgobin is calling for the agriculture sector to be boosted so that T&T can benefit from consistent high quality commercial food production. Speaking ahead of a mid-term budget review by Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Friday, Balgobin said: “Agriculture has become a... Read more
5th April 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 4th April, 2016
Barbadian all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite forever etched his name into West Indies history yesterday with four consecutive sixes in the last over to clinch a breathtaking final against England in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India. Read more
4th April 2016
Daily Brief - Friday April 1st, 2016
A 13-year-old Form One student of a secondary school in east Trinidad, broke down and cried last Thursday afternoon at the Rio Claro Police Station as she related the rape acts she endured at the hands of her HIV positive stepfather when she was just eight years old. Read more
1st April 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 23rd March, 2016
The T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) supports government’s decision not to purchase the ArcelorMittal steel plant. TTMA president Rolph Balgobin said it is a bad idea to nationalise a company to save jobs. “If these companies are not themselves sustainable they simply become an escalating drain on the State. Read more
23rd March 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 22nd March, 2016
Details of yet another Petrotrin project, in which billions have been wasted, emerged yesterday. A Parliament committee heard that while $3.3 billion has already been lost through expenditure on the litigious issue of the World Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) project, a further $3.2 billion has gone down the drain in relation to... Read more
22nd March 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 21st March
Still grieving the loss of her son, Inez Phillips, mother of slain teenager Denilson Smith, laments that the number of murders in Laventille has led her to believe that lives in Laventille aren’t worth anything. “I can’t remember the last time I saw a dead dog on the road,” she... Read more
21st March 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 18th March, 2016
Students among 21 suspended by their principal for deviant behaviour, are suspects in the setting of a fire in the ceiling in one of the classrooms at the El Dorado East Secondary School yesterday. The early afternoon fire damaged a small portion of the ceiling of the classroom which is... Read more
18th March 2016