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The Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team tasted their first defeat in five months tonight, a last-gasp goal from Panama securing a 1-0 victory for the visitors at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. In the final minute of stoppage time, defender Curtis Gonzales lunged at a diagonal ball and …

The two sets of players from the national senior teams of Trinidad and Tobago and Panama will be staking altogether different claims when the countries square off in an international friendly at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva from 7:30pm on Tuesday. The game falls outside the official FIFA match …

It started with a big splash and, arguably, ended with a wet blanket, as Team Trinidad and Tobago heard their national anthem played twice at a Commonwealth Games—for the first time since the 1966 edition in Kingston, Jamaica—but were left fretting at the two potential medals that got away in …

Versatile defender Daneil Cyrus, speedy flanker Cordell Cato and towering forward Nicholas Dillon will be the only overseas-based players in the Trinidad and Tobago squad on Tuesday evening when the Soca Warriors tackle Panama in friendly action from 7:30pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Neither team will be …

The Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) feels it is being “singularly targeted” by the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SPORTT), where the Chairman of the Board, Dinanath Ramnarine, is an official who is at loggerheads with the Executive of the governing body for local cricket. The TTCB is …

Former Jamaican Olympian Grace Jackson is not against the idea of legalising doping in track and field. Insisting that she is not an advocate for drug usage in the sport, she, nevertheless, floated the idea that the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) might work with the global governing bodies to achieve …

Stay in yuh lane, hoss! England sprinter Zharnel Hughes’ flailing paw became the most controversial outstretched hand in the country since former Sport Minister Darryl Smith used then communication specialist Kate Balthazar’s “bam bam” for an arm’s rest. But even a hand to his face could not stop “The Dream”, …

Sprinter Jereem Richards this morning earned a second sprint  medal for Team Trinidad and Tobago in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, taking gold in the 200m final The gold medal moves T&T’s tally at the Games to three, two golds and a silver. Dylan Carter had already …

“Terrific ‘Tattooed Tearaway’ torments track to thrill Trinidad and Tobago!” Well, now that we have honoured sporting success in that timeless tradition of excessive alliteration, how about that Michelle-Lee Ahye, eh?! The red-haired sprinter ended a 20 year gold medal drought for the “Red, Black and White” this morning, as …

Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Darryl Smith’s unwanted advances to former personal staff member, Carrie-Ann Moreau, were at the heart of the latter’s trade dispute with the Ministry, which led to a TT$150,000 pay off with taxpayers’ money. Moreau’s witness statement—published below without accompanying What’s App messages—claimed that she …

While much of Trinidad and Tobago’s workforce will be stuck in rush hour traffic tomorrow morning, the trio of Michelle-Lee Ahye, Khalifa St Fort and Reyare Thomas will be sprinting after destiny in the Carrara Stadium, as all three earned places at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games women’s 100 …

Trinidad and Tobago’s Canada-based sport attorney, Dr Emir Crowne, will spend the next three years on a team of arbitrators and mediators at the London-based Sport Dispute Resolution Panel (SDRP). Crowne, who worked on matters involving a string of high profile athletes like gymnast Thema Williams, badminton player Nekeisha Blake …