Daily Brief - Wednesday 27th January, 2016
XTRA-FOOD chief executive Vindra Naipaul-Coolman could not have been shot and her body sawed up at a red brick house in Upper La Puerta, Diego Martin, the mother of two of ten men accused of killing the Chaguanas businesswoman, testified yesterday at the trial in the Hall of Justice, Port-of-Spain. Read more
27th January 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 26th January, 2016
There are often no symptoms to show that someone has the mosquito-borne Zika virus, and even if it is suspected there is no treatment, yet the infection can lead babies to be born with small heads (microcephaly) and/or a paralysing nerve-disorder known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS). Read more
26th January 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 25th January, 2016
Confirmation yesterday come from Head of the Tobago Division of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), Acting Senior Superintendent Joanne Archie, that “three officers are assisting the TTPS’ Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) in an investigation.” The three officers will reportedly appear in court today, charged with several offences, including... Read more
25th January 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 22nd January, 2016
Two teenaged boys left their school, Success Laventille Secondary following classes yesterday afternoon, but never made it home to their families. Instead, Denilson Smith, 17, and Mark Richards, 15, were shot dead by an unknown gunman a short distance from their homes at Mulrain Trace and Soogren Trace, in Picton, respectively. Read more
22nd January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 21st January, 2016
More than 100 primary schools are failing in this country says Professor Theodore Lewis, newly appointed chairman of committees to review Early Childhood Education and Primary School curriculum and develop a refereed foundation textbook on the history of Trinidad and Tobago. Read more
21st January 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 20th January, 2016
A Diego Martin man who was to face trial for murder, will instead spend the next year and a half in jail, after he pleaded guilty to killing a man and wounding another in 2009. High Court judge Justice Norton Jack yesterday sentenced Kerwin Charles, 25, for the unlawful killing... Read more
20th January 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 19th January, 2016
Two men are in custody assisting Rio Claro police detectives in their investigations into a case of sexual assault on a 13-monthold baby girl. One of the suspects, Newsday was told, is the boyfriend of the baby’s mother. Read more
19th January 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 18th January, 2016
The chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) – the Constitutional body charged with the appointment of the Police Commissioner – yesterday said the PSC was not consulted by Cabinet prior to last year’s issuing of two legal notices which propose a new process by which the country’s top cop... Read more
18th January 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 15th January, 2016
A Sangre Grande man was shot dead at his home on Wednesday night, bringing the murder toll for the year to 20. The murder victim has been identified as Felix Ramsaroop, 59. According to a police report, at about ten o’clock Wednesday night, Ramsaroop was sitting outside his Toco Road,... Read more
15th January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 14th January, 2016
The recession cannot. stop the “Queen. of Bacchanal”, so said. Destra Garcia as she. announced she will. be hosting her second. Queen of Bacchanal. (QOB) Concert,. “Queen” at O2 Park. Chaguramas on February. 03. Garcia was. speaking yesterday at. a press conference at. Digicel Box, Queen’s. Park Oval, St James. Read more
14th January 2016
Daily Brief - Wednesday 13th January, 2016
Prisons officer Roger Miguel, 40, yesterday pleaded “not guilty” to charges of theft of $56,000 from Golden Grove Prison in Arouca and was granted $250,000 bail by Magistrate Indrani Cedeno, in the First Arima Magistrate’s Court. The case was adjourned to February 16. Read more
13th January 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 12th January, 2016
While hundreds of workers, laid off at steel giant Arcelor- Mittal are expected to report for duty at the Point Lisas Industrial Estate-based plant on January 18, 200 workers of Centrin (Central Trinidad Steel Limited) have been given notice of retrenchment letters yesterday, Steel Workers Union (SWUTT) president general Christopher... Read more
12th January 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 11th January, 2016
Gun-toting criminals have become bolder, according to the head of the Port-of-Spain Criminal Investigation Division, Senior Superintendent Donald Jacobs. Jacobs will be replacing Senior Superintendent Johnny Abraham as head of the Port-of-Spain Division, however the Superintendent told Newsday yesterday, that gunmen are no longer depending on the cover of darkness... Read more
11th January 2016
Daily Brief - Friday 8th January, 2016
FIVE murders, which occurred within a 24-hour period between Wednesday and yesterday has raised the murder toll to 14 in the first seven days of this year. Yesterday, two men including one wearing a ski mask and a gun tucked in his waist were gunned down in Belmont while another... Read more
8th January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 7th January, 2016
A botched Caesarean section resulted in the death of 35-year-old Rose Gordon of Tobago. Graphic details of how Gordon died are contained in the autopsy report by pathologist Dr Hubert Daisley on January 4. Gordon, former principal of the Charlotteville Nursery School, died on New Year's Day at the Scarborough... Read more
7th January 2016