Robert Le Hunte’s shock resignation as minister of public utilities allegedly followed a row with Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley over a proposal for major restructuring at WASA. Although, according to informed sources, the quarrel was one-way traffic. Le Hunte, who is also deputy chair of Rowley’s post-Covid-19 economy recovery team, …
Read More »Hadad takes credit for helping stranded Jomal, Jamal and Jomoul; Wallace kept out of loop
Jomal, Jamal and Jomoul are now under one roof in El Salvador. It might sound like the making of a sitcom but in fact it is one of multiple stories about the impact of Covid-19 on Trinidad and Tobago internationals across the globe. In this case, 26-year-old Jomal Williams, 32-year-old …
Read More »T&T in a groove: Phase two starts early, fuel grant for taxis and Chin’s ‘humanitarian’ gesture explained
Trinidad and Tobago will enter phase two, on the road towards the full re-opening of its economy, on Thursday 21 May—some four days ahead of schedule—and it will be bigger than initially suggested. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said today that the country’s promising health figures satisfied chief medical officer …
Read More »Pro League All-Stars: Eve votes for Glen, Cleon, Shaqkeem, Bateau, ‘Butters’, ‘Boyo’…
For the past 18 months, Trinidad and Tobago Pro League stakeholders have discussed the fate of the top flight competition and what might lie in store. Wired868 encourages local football fans to look back. In Wired868’s new Pro League All-Stars series, we ask a few of the local top flight’s …
Read More »Not even Devant believes he’s a journalist! Judge rules against UNC politician
United National Congress (UNC) politician and former minister of agriculture, Devant Maharaj, has failed to convince the San Fernando High Court of Justice that he is a journalist who is being unfairly kept out of press briefings by the Ministry of Communication and its line minister, Senator Donna Cox. Justice …
Read More »Fenwick: If Fifa withdraws funding, we crash! Local football in ‘lose lose’ scenario
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team coach Terry Fenwick has become the first technical staff member to share his thoughts on the power struggle at the helm of the local football association. And the former England World Cup defender believes that the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s technical programmes …
Read More »Rowley announces phased re-opening of economy; fast food first out of the blocks!
Trinidad and Tobago will start the gradual re-opening of its economy from 11 May with KFC, Wendy’s, doubles and other itinerant and non-itinerant restaurants being first out of the blocks. They will operate until 8pm with no in-house dining. “Food establishments and restaurants would be allowed to open and provide …
Read More »Kamla: Rowley must come clean on Venezuela meeting; Rowley: ‘You are a traitor lady!’
On 27 March 2020, the Trinidad and Tobago government temporarily re-opened its borders for a meeting with a seven-member delegation from Venezuela, headed by vice-president Delcy Rodríguez, which—according to a press release—‘focused on the strategy being deployed in both countries to combat Covid-19’. However, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar suggested, in …
Read More »‘A set up!’ TTFA accuses CAS of helping Fifa financially bully Wallace, mulls its options
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) opened the possibility of a withdrawal of its case from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today in a move that could have seismic repercussions for its battle with Fifa. In a legal missive by the TTFA today, the local football body …
Read More »Rowley: Trinidad is not a real place; Griffith: TTPS ‘doesn’t operate on emotion’—Cambridge Analytica probe called off
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley appeared to respond with sarcasm as Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith declared today that the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has closed investigations into the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Cambridge Analytica, a controversial now bankrupt British consultancy firm, were accused—by former employee turned whistleblower, Christopher …
Read More »TTFA and FCB fail to settle differences, Wallace must take legal action to regain accounts
The next time that Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace interacts with the First Citizens Bank, it will likely be in a court room. The two parties agreed yesterday that only a judge could remedy their differences in a bizarre breakdown between client and service provider, which …
Read More »TTFA website down as UK company complains of Hadad snub, Fifa-appointee retorts
“Error—not found.” The above message is the statement that greets fans and stakeholders on the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) website these days, as even the local sporting body’s online presence has fallen prey to the instability at the helm. It is five days now since the TTFA’s website …
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