Daily Brief - Friday 14th June, 2024
Minister of Public Utilities Marvin Gonzales said during the recent hot spell, WASA was losing 36 million gallons of water each day from its reservoirs owing to fallout from climate change, speaking in an interview on June 13 with television personality Wendell Etienne, posted on WASA's YouTube channel. Read more
14th June 2024
Daily Brief - Wednesday 12th June, 2024
A Venezuelan mother who was detained with her son at the heliport in Chaguaramas for a year and a half will be allowed to pursue her judicial review claim against the Minister of National Security over the suitability of the Chaguararmas heliport as an immigration detention centre. Read more
12th June 2024
Daily Brief - Tuesday 11th June, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago can expect more showers from Tuesday to Friday. A five-day weather forecast for June 11-15 issued by the Met Service via its Facebook page said low-level convergence, equatorial moisture advection (the usually horizontal movement of a mass of fluid such as air or an ocean current) and... Read more
11th June 2024
Daily Brief - Monday 10th June, 2024
Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, discussed Trinidad and Tobago's anti-money laundering measures at the 58th Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) Plenary and Working Group Meetings, which brought together Caribbean and Latin American leaders to discuss and implement measures to fight money laundering, terrorist financing and the proliferation of weapons... Read more
10th June 2024
Daily Brief - Friday 7th June, 2024
The shaky performance of state companies under the umbrella of the National Enterprises Ltd (NEL) was a major topic of concern for shareholders, who vented their concerns at the group’s annual general meeting on Thursday at the Trinidad Hilton, Port of Spain. Read more
7th June 2024
Daily Brief - Thursday 6th June, 2024
Two men who have over 30 years of experience in food security in the Caribbean have developed and published a framework that will enhance the ability to provide affordable food in selected Caricom countries. The launch of the framework took place at the Caribbean (Civil Society) Consultative Working Group meeting... Read more
6th June 2024
Daily Brief - Wednesday 5th June, 2024
Police are offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of people responsible for the shootings on June 2 in Gonzales, Belmont and at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH) which left four people dead and two others injured. Read more
5th June 2024
Daily Brief - Tuesday 4th June, 2024
The Southern Division Task Force has held an 18-year-old man with several rounds of ammunition and a quantity of cocaine. A police statement on June 3 said the police arrested the suspect in an exercise which started at 11.30 pm on June 2 and ended at around 3 am on... Read more
4th June 2024
Daily Brief - Monday 3rd June, 2024
Attorney Nyree Alfonso, director of one of the largest firearm dealerships in TT, has sounded alarm bells over the local impact of a new US policy which imposes restrictions on firearm exports to curb US-made civilian guns in crimes abroad. Read more
3rd June 2024
Daily Brief - Wednesday 29th May, 2024
Public Services Association (PSA) president Leroy Baptiste is vowing to take the matter of the TT Revenue Authority (TTRA) Act to the Privy Council. Baptiste said in a phone interview on Tuesday that the association’s attorneys were immediately instructed to prepare to take the matter to the final appellate court... Read more
29th May 2024
Daily Brief - Monday 27th May, 2024
A social activist and blogger has been permitted to pursue a claim against the Police Commissioner’s failure to provide him with information on how many police units are not required to display their regimental numbers on their uniform while on duty. Read more
27th May 2024
Daily Brief- Friday 24th May, 2024
TT Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) president Martin Lum Kin believes gang activity may have resulted in a fight at the Palo Secondary School that left five students with stab wounds on Thursday. Lum Kin told Newsday there was an incident in Siparia over the weekend between students from the Palo... Read more
24th May 2024
Daily Brief - Thursday 23rd May, 2024
Four days after she was kidnapped from her El Dorado business place, doubles vendor Anisha Hosein has been released by her captors. A senior police officer told Newsday around 10.30 pm on May 22 that Hosein was found on the road near the Caroni Cremation site. Read more
23rd May 2024
Daily Brief - Wednesday 22nd May, 2024
A recent survey by the World Food Programme (WFP) and Caricom revealed that despite a global decline in food prices, three million people in the region are affected by high local prices and persistent food insecurity. Read more
22nd May 2024
Daily Brief - Tuesday 21st May, 2024
Coordinator of the Child Affairs Division in the Office of the Prime Minister, Irma Bailey-Reyes, says the Children’s Authority has received 10,000 reports of sexual abuse in eight years. The statistics were given during the division’s first of three sensitisation and training sessions with councillors, aldermen, and other representatives at... Read more
21st May 2024