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
Daily Brief - Thursday 17th march, 2016
This can best describe the state of a woman’s body, discovered by police, cut in half, all limbs cut off and the parts stuffed in a blue plastic barrel floating on the Mitan River in Manzanilla on Tuesday night. Read more
17th March 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 16th March, 2016
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) yesterday chided global steel giant, Arcelor Mittal, for firing its local workforce ahead of shutting down operations, and offered to help the 644 employees get new jobs. “It is most unfortunate that a company that has received so much from the government and... Read more
16th March 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 15th March, 2016
A teacher at the prestigious Naparima College in San Fernando, is under fire, for a rant against homosexuality, going as far as wanting a gun to deal with such persons and other problems in the world. Read more
15th March 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 14th March, 2016
Government will not be paying the $1 million compensation promised to families of officers who were killed in the line of duty between 2014 to date because no policy was put in place under the last administration to do so. Read more
14th March 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 11th March, 2016
The State will table legislation to expand sanctioned powers of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), empowering that drug surveillance body to deal with a wider range of criminal offences, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi announced yesterday. The SSA is currently authorised to police only drug-related offences. Read more
11th March 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 10th March, 2016
Foreigners , mainly from South America, are in this country coaching local criminals on how to steal money from banks’ automatic teller machines (ATM), ATM expert Derek Carrington said yesterday. Carrington, of Massy Technologies, spoke at a seminar on cyber security held at the Arthur Lok Jack School of Business... Read more
10th March 2016
Daily Brief- Wednesday 9th March,2016
The family of six-month-old baby Maleek Khan was in shock last night after he was mauled to death by the family dog at their home at Charlieville, Chaguanas.Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday, the baby’s grandfather, Neshard Khan, 53, said they still could not understand why the dog, Simba, a... Read more
9th March 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 8th March, 2016
She was jailed after appearing before Magistrate Christine Charles in the Port-of-Spain First Court on 40 fresh charges, brought against her in relation to activities spanning the years 2012 to present. The new charges – involving transactions at districts in Port-of- Spain, San Fernando, Chaguanas, Tunapuna and Siparia – added... Read more
8th March 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 7th March, 2016
A south Trinidad woman remains warded in critical condition, teetering on the brink of death, at the San Fernando General Hospital after she was chopped so brutally, that both her hands were severed at the wrist and an arm almost chopped off during a cutlass attack by a man whom... Read more
7th March 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 4th March, 2016
In the end, there was to be no miracle. After a six-week battle for life, baby Miracle Cross breathed her last and gave up the fight lying on a cot during the early morning hours yesterday at the San Fernando General Hospital. Read more
4th March 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 3rd March, 2016
Acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) Stephen Williams has called on divisional heads to deal with the rising incidence of murders which up to press time yesterday, stood at 86 so far for the year. The top cop’s call to his divisional commanders came after he and executive members of the... Read more
3rd March 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 2nd March, 2016
Garcia about criminal students, Garcia yesterday got a new report of complaints from staff members of El Dorado East Secondary about gambling, sex and gang activity taking place inside the school compound by students. One member of staff told reporters of some of the incidents that have happened in recent weeks. Read more
2nd March 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 1st March, 2016
Frustration over money problems and mounting debt is believed to be the reason behind a Couva couple’s decision to make a suicide pact on the weekend and both drink a deadly herbicide. Police said Ralph Boochoon, 41, died on Sunday at the San Fernando General Hospital while his common-law wife... Read more
1st March 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 29th February, 2016
A 20-year-old man was shot dead while offloading musical equipment in the vicinity of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Port-of-Spain, shortly after 9.30 pm on Saturday. According to reports, Lorenzo John, of Trou Macaque, Laventille, was in company with a friend, Nathan Pierre, when a lone gunman walked up... Read more
29th February 2016