Tag Archives: Lasana Liburd

“[…] ‘Tony’ Harford was a person who loved his sport. He was a person who loved people, he loved to help people.  “Basically his life was about those two things…” Former Northern Football Association (NFA) president, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) board member, veteran media anchor and radio presenter, …

After the 2020 false start, T&T athletes sweated, cried and bled as they prepared to face the Olympic starters in 2021. While they did so, some of the country’s most accomplished and known sport journalists assembled their own Team TTO to come up with an interesting mix of nostalgia, analysis …

Allyuh tink dis selection ting easy? Allyuh know who Joshua Bishop is? No? Well, the 21-year-old Barbados Royals’ rookie left-arm spinner’s name somehow ended up on a list of three dozen West Indies players named by the 12 panellists asked to select their WI dream team for the 2021 T20 …

“Yes, I want to play for West Indies—that’s where my heart is,” veteran West Indies cricket star Chris Gayle told ESPN, during an interview in March 2021. “I am never going to turn down anything pertaining to West Indies cricket at this particular time. “[…] Hopefully I can perform, help …

The following column, written by Lasana Liburd, was first published in the Trinidad Express Sport Magazine on 29 July 2004: “I have heard people say that we cannot get any worse,” said ex-West Indies legendary fast bowler and Sky Sport TV commentator Michael Holding, “and that we have reached rock-bottom …

The following article was penned for the TTOC Tokyo 2020 Olympic Magazine, prior to the ongoing competition:  With no spectators likely to be in the stands, for the athletes the Tokyo 2020 experience promises to be unique. For regional televiewers, says LASANA LIBURD, it will be, if not unique, certainly …

Last Sunday, the state of our national dialogue alarmed two Express columnists. Martin Daly described it as poisonous (‘The country has descended almost exclusively into the practice of the poisonous politics of demonisation.’) while Selwyn Cudjoe warned about the consequences (‘I don’t know how the acidic squabble between the prime …

Wired868 editor Lasana Liburd talks to TV6 Morning Edition host Fazeer Mohammed on the Trinidad and Tobago football team’s resurgence under new interim head coach Angus Eve, the 2021 Gold Cup challenge, and racism in sport:   Wired868 has provided readers with solid, independent journalism since 2012.  If you appreciate …

Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith has filed a defamation lawsuit against Wired868 and its columnist Dennise Demming for an opinion piece which suggested that Griffith abused his position in an attempt to have his son and footballer, Gary Griffith III, selected for the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team. …

Former Trinidad and Tobago international defender Yohance Marshall, interim coaches association president Jefferson George and SSFL president Merere Gonzales discuss what lies ahead at the 2021 Gold Cup, fair-weather fans, the Soca Warriors’ bottle and spoon session in Miami, and the unusual fighting methods of Iwer George supporters. Subscribe for …

The designation ‘anonymous source’ has become a talking point this week, in light of Wired868’s two-part series ‘The truth about Griffith’. So I think it might be useful to explain how someone becomes an unnamed source for Wired868. The three main questions asked in each and every case are: Is …

A journalist learns quickly the importance of confidentiality and protecting one’s source. So it is an exceptional circumstance that leads me to now reveal one such informant, in a bid to defend my reputation against a curious onslaught by Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith. In a last-ditch effort to avoid …