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
Daily Brief - Wednesday 6th January, 2016
Anthony Smith, 30, was yesterday rearrested and slapped with 21 charges involving human trafficking, child prostitution and assault. Among the charges is that of recruiting a child within Trinidad and Tobago for the purpose of trafficking under section 18 of the Trafficking in Persons Act. Read more
6th January 2016
Daily Brief - Tuesday 5th January, 2016
In life, Dinnse Jaikaran was very, very close to her brother Junior “Gang-gay” Jaikaran. So much so, that when Dinnse was awakened on Sunday night, to be told her brother had just collapsed and died of a heart attack, she screamed, ran out of the house and collapsed a short... Read more
5th January 2016
Daily Brief - Monday 4th January, 2016
Rose Gordon, 35, delivered her baby girl at the Scarborough General Hospital, in Tobago, on Old Year’s Day. A mother of a teenage girl, Gordon was hoping to welcome her new daughter home for the new year. Read more
4th January 2016
Daily Brief - Thursday 24th December, 2015
This country now officially has four confirmed deaths from the H1N1 influenza virus (swine flu) as the Ministry of Health has confirmed that the cause of death for 28 year-old Stacy Ramkissoon, who died two weeks after giving birth, was from the virus. Read more
24th December 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 23rd December, 2015
Whatever the circumstances, craziness on the nation’s road is never justified, according to Works and Transport Minister, Fitzgerald Hinds, as he called on citizens yesterday to do their part to prevent road carnage and, injuries. “Craziness is never justified and that is one of the reasons why we are here... Read more
23rd December 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 22nd December, 2015
Relatives claiming bodies of loved ones killed on the weekend clashed yesterday at the Forensics Sciences Centre, (FSC) Federation Park, over differences. One of the confrontations came to blows. The incidents involved relatives of Kerron Warrican, 31, of Mc Bean Village, Couva, who died after reportedly being knocked down along... Read more
22nd December 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 21st December, 2015
The mother of a policeman, who was slain almost five months ago while in the line of duty during a daring jailbreak at the Port-of-Spain prisons, is pleading with the People’s National Movement (PNM) government to honour a commitment of the previous People’s Partnership administration to pay her $1 million... Read more
21st December 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 18th December, 2015
NURSES and even patients at the Sangre Grande District Hospital were left in a state of fear, with some patients deciding to discharge themselves when a Mayaro man was admitted to the Eastern Trinidad medical institution on Wednesday night, exhibiting symptoms of the deadly H1N1 (swine flu) virus. Read more… Read more
18th December 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 17th December, 2015
Gabrielle Sohan loved her family dearly, especially her younger siblings Armando, four; ten-year-old Leon and 13-yearold Josh Lalchan. She recently shopped for them, purchasing gifts of toys which she planned to wrap with gift paper and present to them on Christmas Day. Read more
17th December 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 16th December, 2015
Trinidad and Tobago was once again the focus of an international drug bust involving cocaine in juice containers. According to reports out of Canada yesterday, members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested two Greater Toronto Area men for importing approximately 44 litres of liquid cocaine, which could be... Read more
16th December 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 15th December 2015
THE Aranjuez Main Road, outside a popular bar-b-que outlet became the scene of a bloodbath as a police constable and a student of the University of the West Indies (UWI) were riddled with bullets during the early morning hours yesterday. Read more
15th December 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 14th December, 2015
Blamed for the shooting death of his nephew back in May, a 57 year-old Penal father of four suffered a similar fate early yesterday morning when he too was shot dead, mere metres away. Dead is Michael Matthew, also called “Shortman” and “Sprainy” of Fazal Avenue, off Penal Rock Road, Penal. Read more
14th December 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 11th December, 2015
A Valencia trucking contractor has been awarded a little over $4.5 million in damages as compensation after police failed to return 15 of his vehicles which were seized and kept for almost three years. In a ruling yesterday, Justice Ricky Rahim found that businessman Danny Guerra was entitled to special... Read more
11th December 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 10th December, 2015
On The Passing of Former President Mr. Paul Quesnel Read more
10th December 2015