Daily Brief - Thursday 25th February, 2016
Two teenaged schoolboys were shot dead in a lonely, bushy track off St John’s Road in St Augustine on Tuesday afternoon in an incident police investigators say was linked to a drug deal which had gone sour. Read more
25th February 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 24th February, 2016
Criminal students are among the population of the Chaguanas North Secondary School and Minister of Education Anthony Garcia, yesterday pledged to have them removed. As a start, Garcia revealed that 24 students — identified as ring leaders in the delinquency that has plagued the school — are to be sent... Read more
24th February 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 23rd February,2016
A 16-YEAR-OLD student of the troubled Chaguanas North Secondary School was arrested and charged after police found details of a ‘hit’ planned for yesterday on a security officer posted at the school. The schoolboy has been charged with assault by threatening to inflict bodily harm and is expected to appear... Read more
23rd February 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 22nd February, 2016
Today’s National Consultation on Education in Tobago will be held at the Magdalena Grand Beach Resort and not the Shaw Park Cultural Complex as previously advertised. This according to a release from the Ministry of Education (MOE ). Minister of Education Anthony Garcia is expected to attend. Read more
22nd February 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 19th February, 2016
Government has allocated $7 million to the 14 municipal corporations to aid in the fight against Zika. Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Franklin Khan made this revelation at a local government reform forum at the Siparia Market on Wednesday evening. Read more
19th February 2016
Daily Brief-Thursday 18th February,2016
Fears that the rapidly spreading Zika virus would hit the shores of T&T materialised yesterday when Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh announced T&T’s first confirmed case. Careful not to identify the victim or location, Deyalsingh said it was a 61-year-old woman who recently returned from a visit to New Zealand. Read more
18th February 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 15th February, 2016
The body of Japanese murder victim Asami Nagakiya will be returned to Japan for her final interment. Newsday understands that a certificate of clearance to ensure that Nagakiya did not have any infectious diseases will be sought from forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov today. Read more
15th February 2016
Daily Brief- Thursday 11th February,2016
POLICE were last night trying to identify the body of a young woman of Asian descent, clad in a bikini and beads mas costume, who was found under a large tree in the Queen’s Park Savannah yesterday morning, hours after Carnival celebrations ended. Read more
11th February 2016
Daily Brief- Friday 5th February, 2016
THE 31-year-old suspect in the sex assault of a five-year-old Rio Claro girl has a case pending at the Princes Magistrates Court for rape and robbery. The offences were allegedly committed in 2011. This means that he sexually assaulted the five-yearold while out on bail for the rape and robbery charges. Read more
5th February 2016
Daily Brief- Thursday 4th February, 2016
With the nation's attention turned to deaths linked to the H1N1 flu virus (swine flu) and the threat posed by the Zika virus, comes news of the death from dengue of a 16-year-old girl. Navita Mahabir is the first to have died this year as a result of dengue, which,... Read more
4th February 2016
Daily Brief- Wednesday 3rd February, 2016
THE country’s innocent continue to be preyed upon by those in positions of trust.In the latest incident of sexual abuse against minors, police have seized a cell phone containing an explicit video of a five-year-old girl performing oral sex on the 31-yearold boyfriend of her mother. Read more
3rd February 2016
Daily Brief- Tuesday 2nd February, 2016
A THREAT to rape and kill a policeman’s wife, in retaliation for being arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and resisting arrest at Saturday’s Chutney Brass fete in South Trinidad, has led to the arresting officer making arrangements — in collaboration with seniors — to increase security on his... Read more
2nd February 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 1st February 2016
Regional corporations are mobilising personnel and resources in response to Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh’s declaration of a national public health emergency over the Zika virus. Word is that members of the business community have also offered support to block the spread of the mosquito borne virus in the country. Read more
1st February 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 29th January, 2016
There was high drama yesterday morning as police officers used canisters of teargas to literally smoke out a burglary suspect who hid in the aircondition vents of the 51 Degrees nightclub and restaurant off Cipriani Boulevard following a burglary. Read more
29th January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 28th January, 2016
The land on which the Housing Development Corporation (HDC)’s million-dollar Morvant housing project is built is still moving, the Inquiry into the project heard yesterday, as the possibility that the entire project may have to be condemned emerged at the proceedings. Read more
28th January 2016