The Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 football team was dealt a low blow to its United Arab Emirates 2013 Under-17 World Cup chances yesterday when the teenaged “Soca Warriors” were denied any chance of practicing on the Marvin Lee Stadium at the Dr João Havelange Centre of Excellence, which was …
Read More »Daddy dearest: Minister’s son fails to inspire rescue mission
It seems safe to suggest that an unnamed People’s Partnership Minister would never get the lead role in “Finding Nemo.” Across the deep, blue sea allegedly lays his son who is supposedly in a spot of bother with the FBI for money laundering. Good luck, mate. For weeks, the topic …
Read More »Warner and Williams have a flying conversation
Scene: Office of Minister of National Security Date: Sometime in July 2012 Phone rings. National Security Minister Jack Warner: “Good afternoon, you’re through to Miami Vice. Hahahaha.” Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams: “Minister Warner? Minister Warner, I must talk to you immediately.” Warner: “Yes Stephen, what’s all the excitement about?” …
Read More »Flying Squad The Movie: A critical review
Narratives based loosely on factual events were the rave at the recent United States Academy Awards with Argo, Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln all enjoyed some success. Far away in Trinidad and Tobago, National Security Operations Centre (NSOC) director Garvin Heerah allegedly submitted a late entry. The plot, as published …
Read More »Machel floats away… and takes Warner and Heeralal to safety
There is nothing to suggest that Trinidad and Tobago soca star Machel Montano is in any way linked to the Flying Squad that Jack Warner is supposedly innocently guilty of restarting. But, when Machel floated out the Magistrates’ Court today, he was not alone—in a manner of speaking. Machel was …
Read More »Warner pleads guilty and innocent to Flying Squad; then absolves himself
National Security Minister Jack Warner accepted blame this weekend for the re-deployment of a “Flying Squad”. Not the penalty though. That belonged to the lesser people. “Ultimately the blame rests with the minister,” said Warner, “and if there are other guys who are under me who are performing in a …
Read More »The myth of Warner’s amazing crime plan
This Friday on the Trinidad Guardian’s front page, PSC Chairman Professor Ramesh Deosaran was quoted as saying the crime plans have failed. I didn’t even know we had a crime plan presented to us, far less multiple ones. What I do know is that since being appointed Minister of National Security, …
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 »Warner invites top US crime fighter to Trinidad; and it isn’t April 1st
National Security Minister Jack Warner told the local media that he has invited former New York Police Chief Bill Bratton, known as “Mr Zero Tolerance”, to lecture Trinidad and Tobago lawmen. Mr Live Wire was unreliably informed that reporters broke into hysterical laughter at the notion that someone referred to …
Read More »FIFA distances itself from TTFF liquidation threat
FIFA has distanced itself from the legal battle between the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) and 13 members of the 2006 World Cup squad and, in a letter dated 6 February 2013, instead advised the respective parties to seek out the relevant bodies for adjudication. The World Cup 2006 …
Read More »Controversial autopsies and an impending GESTAPO
Scene: Office of the Minister of National Security Phone rings. Jack Warner: “Good morning, President of Trinidad and Tobago speaking.” Fuad Khan: “Erm, sorry, I meant to call Minister Warner.” Warner: “Oh, yes, sorry. Warner speaking.” Khan: “Jack, it’s Fuad. Did you say you were the President?” Warner: “No, no. …
Read More »The best of 2012: Lady PM goes Ga Ga, Warner’s excellent lie and T&T football under siege
Wired868 continues its look at 2012 with months April to June sees controversial Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner star in a bizarre Cabinet reshuffle and almost everything else while Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar lets the dogs out at her two-year anniversary party and ends up short of one coalition partner. …
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