Daily Brief - Monday 26th October, 2015
An online petition has been started for the police to arrest and charge former government ministers and a former senior police officer were allegedly involved in a cover-up after a small quantity of marijuana was found at the private home of former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Read more
26th October 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 23rd October, 2015
Homicide detectives have held three people, among them a woman, in connection with the killing of British lawyer Richard Wheeler and his Trinidadian wife Grace. The suspects are in their 20s. The announcement was made by Assistant Commissioner of Police Homicide Vincel Edwards who was selected by acting Commissioner of... Read more
23rd October 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 22nd October, 2015
T&T recorded its fourth confirmed death from the highly contagious H1N1 Influenza (swine flu), which accounted for over 14,000 deaths worldwide in 2009. According to a copy of a death certificate obtained by the T&T Guardian yesterday, Siparia mother Cherrie Ryce, 46, died of swine flu at the San Fernando... Read more
22nd October 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 21st October, 2015
Villagers of Kernaham and Cascadoux in Mayaro say they are yet to get any flood relief since last November’s disaster even though hundreds of mattresses and supplies were found stacked under the home of former MP Winston “Gypsy” Peters. Read more
21st October 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 20th October, 2015
While recent rainfall in T&T has positively impacted local reservoirs, they remain significantly low. So said communications manager of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Daniel Plenty while responding to questions via e-mail. He said water schedules would remain until otherwise advised by the authority. Read more
20th October 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 19th October, 2015
My name is Rashmi Mathur and I am a Trini from Bangalore, India. I was born in India but moved to Tobago when I was nine. Fort King George was like our backyard. We would study or read there after school while eating guavas. Read more
19th October 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 16th October, 2015
The opening of the 2015 hunting season has put wildlife on the run. On Tuesday night a two-year old anteater seeking refuge ran into the yard of Cindy Mohammed, of Killdeer Trace, Rio Claro. Mohammed placed the animal in a cage and sought help on social media. Read more
16th October 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 15th October, 2015
A 14 - year old girl remains incarcerated at the Women’s Prison hours after the hacking to death of her boyfriend Jahsent ‘CJ’ Clement, 22, on a beach in Granville on Tuesday. Clement, a watchman of South Beach Road, Irois Village in Chatham, had gone to the beach to meet... Read more
15th October 2015
TTMA in the News - 14/10/15
A “just and courageous budget” was the response of Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) President, Dr Rolph Balgobin, after listening to Finance Minister Colm Imbert’s 2015/2016 budget presentation in Parliament this past Monday (October 5). Read more
14th October 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 12th October, 2015
A man who spent last Christmas behind bars will do the same for Christmas 2015. Joel Walcottt appeared before the court on Friday after he broke two window panes valued $36,000. It was the second time he smashed the glass of the businessplace. Read more
12th October 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday October 8th, 2015
Residents of Williams Terrace in Belmont are pleading with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to bring relief as they have not had water since Republic Day — a stretch of 15 days. Residents began telephoning Newsday since Monday — Budget Day — to complain that they have been experiencing... Read more
8th October 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday October 7th, 2015
Police and grieving relatives were yesterday baffled as to the reason behind Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) senior manager Derek Hooker’s murder, with relatives saying the 54-year-old man, “lived for the Church”. Hooker was fatally shot outside his Diego Martin home on Monday night. Read more
7th October 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday October 6th, 2015
Police had to be called in to the Williamsville Secondary School, last Friday morning when a fight broke out between a 17-year-old Form Five student, identified as a bully at the school, and a close male relative of one of his victims. The concerned relative had visited the at about... Read more
6th October 2015
Daily Brief - Friday August 28th, 2015
Every year, the Integrity Commission receives between 1,200 and 1,400 declarations of income, assets and liabilities from persons in public life, but it currently has a team of 11 persons to analyse and certify these declarations, the Commission said yesterday. Read more
28th August 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 20th August, 2015
The 18-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed 16-year-old Jernice Francis to death in a jealous rage surrendered yesterday. Before doing so, she issued a call for Francis’s mother to find it in her heart to forgive her. Read more
20th August 2015