The national bird of Trinidad and Tobago should not be the Scarlet Ibis or Cocrico. It should be the corbeau! In the season of peace and goodwill, “Raisa” might have had something else in mind entirely when “she” created a Facebook post to hawk #iamshannon caps at TT$250 each. “All …
Read More »Plea to Jack Warner-critic-cum-biographer: Come back home, Tino
Columnist Earl Best pens an open letter to current Guardian Sports Editor Valentino Singh, who initially led the campaign to have Austin Jack Warner brought to book for his November 19,1989 misdeeds and then turned around and tried to make Warner look good by authoring his two self-serving books: My …
Read More »No thanks: TTFA returns Haitian donation for Soca Princesses
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) formally declined an offer of financial assistance from Haiti today as TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee wrote his Haitian counterpart Dr Yves Jean-Bart to say thanks but no thanks. Haiti national women’s coach Shek Borkowski, a Polish native, said his players heard the …
Read More »Lalla-land: My game of legal bluff with Jack Warner (Part one)
Independent Liberal Party (ILP) interim leader and ex-FIFA vice president Jack Warner sued me for substantial damages, a retraction and public apology as well as legal costs but he ended up offering an apology instead, via a legal document lodged in the High Court. Here is the real story of …
Read More »Warner avoids Haiti and logic… but what about non-flying squad?
National Security Minister Jack Warner said he was too busy to discuss the Caribbean’s crime problem in a meeting of regional representatives in Haiti, earlier this week. Well, that’s one way to avoid an awkward trip. Warner is unlikely to be popular in Port-au-Prince since the controversy regarding FIFA and …
Read More »The best of 2012: Haitian robbery, TTFF court room drama and satirical news clips
Is it too late to say goodbye? Wired868 looks back at a year in sport and satire. Click on the highlighted texts and enjoy the first in our special four-part series on 2012: January: (Sport) Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner swore an affidavit that he would turn up at the …
Read More »How “Massa” Jack undeveloped CONCACAF
Mel Brennan, the CONCACAF Head of Special Projects from February 2001 to September 2003, discusses the legacy of ex-FIFA vice president, Jack Warner: Austin “Jack” Warner, in an archived TWI television production: “In all modesty, let me say that that is one of the failures of staying in office too long. …
Read More »Jack’s Haiti aid defence
Works Minister and ex-FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has submitted a tsunami of documentation to FIFA, which aims to prove the whereabouts of emergency aid funds that was wired to Trinidad and Tobago, two years ago, for disbursement to Haiti. However, there is no chance that FIFA or anyone else …
Read More »Warner’s questionable lawsuit
Minister of Works and Infrastructure and ex-FIFA Vice President Jack Warner sent a pre-action protocol letter to me—the Wired868.com editor and publisher—on Friday 24 February 2012 through his attorney Om Lalla. The legal document, which claimed defamation and libel, was published on the website of State-owned television station, CTV, and …
Read More »PM, UNC refuse to probe Warner
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and United National Congress Deputy Chairman and Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan have refused to probe the behaviour of Works Minister and ex-FIFA Vice President Jack Warner despite complaints from: ravaged regional neighbour, Haiti, the High Court, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation …
Read More »Ex-FIFA VP threatens Wired868… And Twitter
Ex-FIFA Vice President and Minister of Works and Infrastructure Jack Warner has allegedly threatened legal action against Wired868.com owner and investigative journalist, Lasana Liburd, and, by extension, social networking and microblogging service, Twitter, for “completely unacceptable defamation and libel”, according to Trinidad and Tobago television station, CTV. Warner claimed to …
Read More »TTFF: Warner took Haiti aid money
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) admitted culpability this morning for the Haiti financial aid scandal reported exclusively by the UK Sunday Times and confirmed by Wired868.com on 12 February 2012. However, Minister of Works and Infrastructure and ex-FIFA Vice President Jack Warner was fingered as the only person …
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