Daily Brief - Thursday 7th July, 2022
Standard three students from 17 primary schools under the Penal Debe Regional Corporation (PDRC) participated in an art competition and received high praises on Wednesday for their creativity. A total of 83 students painted clay pots in two categories — Water and Earth Element and Let Your Imagination Run Wild. Read more
7th July 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 5th July, 2022
First Citizens Financial Holding Group Ltd CEO Karen Darbasie says staff from First Citizens Brokerage Advisory Services will be in Tobago from next week to open accounts for people interested in purchasing shares in the bank’s recently announced additional public offering (APO). Read more
5th July 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 4th July, 2022
Signal Hill Secondary’s J’Nae Brathwaite is the 2022 Tobago Tourism Youth Congress Junior Secretary. The annual debate competition featured eight participants discussing innovative ideas on improving the tourism industry. Brathwaite, who earned 375 points, will represent Tobago at the 2022 Caribbean Tourism Youth Congress, in the Cayman Islands, from September 12-15. Read more
4th July 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 1st July, 2022
The council of the Law Association (LATT) on Thursday cleared Minister in the Office of the Attorney General Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal of the Opposition's allegations of possibly trying to influence the future decisions of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) over the Piarco airport corruption case, known as Piarco 1. Read more
1st July 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 30th June, 2022
This country was spared the brunt of the tropical wave which increased wind speeds and slammed into Grenada on Tuesday. Speaking on I95 FM on Wednesday morning, CEO of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) Maj Gen Rodney Smart emphasised how much the country should be grateful for. Read more
30th June 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 29th June, 2022
After a tension-filled day, the tropical storm warning for Trinidad and Tobago has been discontinued. In a statement shortly after 11 pm Tuesday, the Met Office revised its orange-level alert to yellow, an adverse weather status to monitor weather conditions. Read more
29th June 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 28th June, 2022
All schools have been ordered shut and several flights cancelled as a tropical storm veers directly towards Trinidad and Tobago. The latest advisory from the Met Service at 5 am on Tuesday put the storm just 680 kilometres east of TT. Read more
28th June 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 27th June, 2022
Leading business stakeholders – the American Chamber of Commerce (AmchamTT), TT Chamber of Industry and Commerce, TT Manufacturers Association and the TT Transparency Institute – are of the view the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act, 2015, can be proclaimed and fully implemented before the reading of the... Read more
27th June 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 24th June, 2022
By next week Friday, the Kiss Baking Company will raise the price of its products by an average of 11 per cent, it said in a statement on Thursday. Kiss said the National Flour Mills (NFM) on Tuesday had announced a 33 per cent rise in the wholesale price of... Read more
24th June 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 23rd June, 2021
"Surprised" was Supermarket Association (SATT) president Rajiv Diptee's response to the announcement by National Flour Mills (NFM) of a 33 per cent increase in flour prices. Speaking at the launch of Southex Agriculture and Food Expo at the TT Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Columbus Circle, Westmoorings, on Wednesday, he... Read more
23rd June 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 22nd June, 2022
National Flour Mills Ltd (NFM) has raised the price of its wholesale flour for a second time since January, by a staggering 33 per cent, with a suggested retail price increase of 28 per cent, as of today (Wednesday). Read more
22nd June 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 21st June, 2022
A man is facing charges of reckless driving and assault after he was involved in a hit-and-run accident on Sunday. Police said the man, while driving his van, was also beating a female relative. Port of Spain City Police who were on patrol received a report that a white Nissan... Read more
21st June 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 17th June, 2022
TT and China have had a long history and bilateral relations. Chinese ambassador Fang Qiu in an interview with Business Day, discussed several matters about the two countries co-operation. Among those included recovery from the covid19 pandemic, trade and investment, the ease of doing business and the negative impact of... Read more
17th June 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 15th June, 2022
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has denied that it has made any agreement with the Telecommunications Services of TT Ltd (TSTT) that would pave the way for the restructuring process and retrenchment of over 400 workers to proceed without disruptions. Read more
15th June 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 14th June, 2022
A morning shootout on Wrightson Road in Port of Spain ended with one man dead and hundreds of commuters, who witnessed the event, traumatised. Within the span of ten minutes – after police intercepted the suspect driving east in a stolen silver Nissan B15 , they chased him, returned fire... Read more
14th June 2022