Daily Brief- Monday 1st June, 2015
Unaware that her husband had been stabbed to death by bandits, a wounded Dolly Sooknanan sat on the floor next to his body waiting for him to awake from his sleep. Police said Sooknanan, 86, was in a state of shock after bandits broke into their Spring Trace, Siparia home,... Read more
1st June 2015
Daily Brief- 29th May, 2015
Independent Liberal party (ILP) leader Jack Warner last night promised to expose all the wrongdoings of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s People’s Partnership Government. He made the comment as he appeared at an ILP meeting in Chaguanas hours after he walked out the Port-of-Spain prison having finally secured his bail. Read more
29th May 2015
Daily Brief- 28th May, 2015
After embattled Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner spent last night in jail after failing to secure bail, the United States Justice Department now has 60 days to produce a formal request for his extradition to the US to face racketeering and other charges on which he has been... Read more
28th May 2015
Daily Brief- 27th May, 2015
Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner yesterday said it was not prudent for him to expose corruption while he was a member of the Kamla Persad-Bissessar-led Cabinet.The former senior minister in the People’s Partnership (PP) Government — holding the ministerial posts of Works and Infrastructure and then National Security... Read more
27th May 2015
Daily Brief- 26th May, 2015
Israel Khan SC has denied a claim by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley that the letter he (Khan) wrote to the Integrity Commission (IC) demanding that the Emailgate probe be concluded had Zainool Hosein's name on the letterhead. Read more
26th May 2015
Daily Brief- 22nd May, 2015
Integrity Commission Deputy Chairman, retired Justice Sebastian Ventour, yesterday accused the body which he sat on until yesterday of misleading the public on the emailgate affair. Ventour confirmed yesterday that he had resigned from the Commission. Read more
22nd May 2015
Daily Brief- 21st May, 2015
Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar should wait until the police probe into the Emailgate matter is completed before coming to any definitive conclusion. He was responding in Parliament yesterday to Persad-Bissessar’s claim of vindication based on a letter from the Integrity Commission which said it... Read more
21st May 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 15th May, 2015
15th May 2015
Daily Brief - Thursday 14th May, 2015
Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Joan Honore-Paul last night slammed Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for her suggestion that she and her colleagues should be cleared in the Emailgate probe, saying the police were far from done with their investigations and the case was still wide open. Read more
14th May 2015
Daily Brief - Wednesday 13th May, 2015
Cabinet Minister and incumbent United National Congress parliamentarian, Dr Rupert Griffith, risks being replaced by his chauffeur to contest the Toco/Sangre Grande seat in the forthcoming general elections. In fact the driver, David John, filed his nomination papers yesterday at the United National Congress (UNC) headquarters at Rienzi Complex, Couva,... Read more
13th May 2015
Daily Brief - Tuesday 12th May, 2015
The Prime Minister’s release of a letter from her Calfornia-based attorneys, dated May 4, submitting that there was no match between the Google-provided e-mails and the e-mails read in the House by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley in May 2013, has taken the emailgate controversy in a new direction. Read more
12th May 2015
Daily Brief - Monday 11th May, 2015
For years, all motorists who have been paying insurance premiums have also been paying money to the State to place in a special fund set up to pay damages to persons who suffer in accidents involving cars without insurance.However, according to Minister of Transport Stephen Cadiz, to date, the State... Read more
11th May 2015
Daily Brief - Friday 8th May, 2015
As of today, People's National Movement (PNM) MPs will boycott the House of Representatives until Government lifts last Wednesday's suspension of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley over the emailgate affair, the PNM General Council decided last evening. Read more
8th May 2015