Even if you had no idea who he was, Keron “Ball Pest” Cummings would have caught your eye on Saturday afternoon at the Diego Martin North Secondary School ground. With the Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL) Two game seemingly headed for a goalless draw, the former Soca Warriors midfield …
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Ciao Carolina! T&T women’s programme in jeopardy as Italian walks after three months without pay
The Italian renaissance of the Trinidad and Tobago National Women’s Team programme appears to be over—after just under six months—as the much vaunted head coach Carolina Morace officially informed the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) on Friday that she has had enough. Morace, a former Italy player and Canada …
Read More »Daly Bread: When ridiculous becomes normal; CoP’s ‘nonsensical’ statements on arrest
In the face of rampant violent crime, last week’s column asserted that it is wholly insufficient to believe, as the Government does, that we could merely rely on the Police Service as currently managed. On that same day, there was a forceful editorial in the Sunday Express newspaper which I …
Read More »Pro League scores: Sando surprise Jabloteh for third straight win, but goals scarce in top flight
Club Sando maintained their rich vein of form in the 2017 Pro League season with a third successive win—and their biggest scalp to boot—as they edged San Juan Jabloteh 2-1 in action at the Barataria Recreation Ground today. Jabloteh, the 2017 Caribbean Club Championship runners-up, opened the scoring through full …
Read More »Dear Editor: T&T’s only hope is to abandon neo-colonial system left by pirates and sea dogs
“Because we are too spineless in the face of our failed colonial realities, we must now live in fear of a generation that will have theirs: by any means necessary. “They cannot be blamed, for it is we who failed to confront the new pirates head-on, so that generations to …
Read More »TTSL in election mode: Look Loy, Ottley discuss visions and potential conflicts of interest
The Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL) will hold its first formal elections on 9 August at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva with interim president and FC Santa Rosa coach Keith Look Loy likely to be challenged for the head job and a seat on the Trinidad and …
Read More »Pro League scores: Rangers stun Central, Stars hold Connection in top of table clash
Teenaged forward Josh Toussaint scored the decisive goal for MIC-It St Ann’s Rangers tonight as the Pro League’s table proppers stunned defending champions Central FC 1-0 at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. It was Central’s first loss this season and their second straight weekend without a win, after the …
Read More »Shock call-ups for Keon Daniel, Keron Clarke and Isaiah Hudson in T&T squad to face Ecuador
Unattached maverick playmaker Keon Daniel, FC Santa Rosa forward Keron Clarke and teenaged W Connection attacker Isaiah Hudson were three surprise call-ups today as Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team head coach Dennis Lawrence selected a 26-man provisional squad to play Ecuador in Guayaquil on 26 July. The friendly international is …
Read More »DJW confirms Couva switch for Honduras WCQ, TTFA plots Emancipation Day friendly
The Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team will play their do-or-die World Cup qualifier against Honduras on 1 September at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva from 8pm. It will be the first time in eight years that the Soca Warriors play a World Cup qualifying home match outside of the …
Read More »Come on, you Gunners! A T&T Arsenal fan urges ‘couch coaches’ to try positivity
I love football, I love English football and, more specifically, I love EPL football team Arsenal. I consider myself a huge fan and anytime I get the opportunity to watch one of their games in person I will take it. I changed my Cable TV plan to ensure that I can …
Read More »Afra scrutinises Central Bank; have CL Financial bailout lessons been ignored?
In today’s world of alternative facts, we have to be alert to the special dangers posed by ‘false equivalence.’ False equivalence arises when two arguments are presented as being of equal relevance but, in fact, one is solidly fact-based and the other is mere speculation or invention. As recent events …
Read More »STREET VIBES: Fuad, we Khan take no more! T&T sick of doctors’ irresponsible behaviour
To say that the level of irresponsibility in this nation is lamentable is an understatement; we could accurately use much stronger language. But the discovery of a foetus in the refrigerator of a doctor’s office in South gave us a clear demonstration of precisely how pathetic and irresponsible some people …
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