“The disproportionate prosecution of working class criminals ultimately serves to maintain ruling-class power and to reinforce ruling class ideology—thus performing ‘ideological functions’ for the ruling class.” Orson Rogers considers potential flaws in the way that Trinidad and Tobago deals with crime: As an armchair crime watcher and based on considerable …
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MASTER’S VOICE: Privy Council says Dumas damn right to demand info from State body
Hear ye, hear ye, O people of the babagreen—I cyar really say “grassroots” no more since in most places the grass cut and covered over with Bestcrete or pitch. Anyway, leh mih make mih point. The point is that ting happening and, Sherma Wilson, forgive me for calling your name …
Read More »Video: Wired868 offers a taste of RBNYL football action at Constantine Park
Kick off! Wired868 captures Republic Bank National Youth League (RBNYL) action at Constantine Park, Macoya on 6 May 2017: More from Wired868 Laventille Netball League offers hope for future; as Unity and Transcend girls show promise On a cool Thursday afternoon, Unity Sports Club, in their pink and black uniforms, …
Read More »We like it so! Farrell points to corruption and bias in T&T Media but also successes
“The Media, at least the traditional mainstream part of it, is not a clear glass window, giving an unobstructed view into the society; it is rather, a lens. It can serve to focus and direct public attention to specific areas of national life and equally, to obscure or obfuscate other …
Read More »We’re learning new things each day! Latapy credits U-15 Cayman tournament
Trinidad and Tobago National Under-15 Team head coach Russell Latapy credited the Cayman Airways Invitational Under 15 Youth Cup for accelerating the development of his young squad, as the young Soca Warriors completed their mini-adventure on Sunday evening in the Grand Cayman. The Trinidad and Tobago squad played four games …
Read More »It’s final! Fatima and QRC escape drop while S/Juan North and East Mucurapo demoted
Almost seven months after the final ball was kicked in the 2016 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division, the SSFL executive finally gave public confirmation of the most tumultuous end to the local schoolboy season in this millennium. And it meant good news for Queen’s Royal College (QRC) and …
Read More »RBNYL: Lu Ann’s revenge, Cunupia collar little Lamsee and Sadiki leads Police rout
There was something for everyone at Constantine Park in Macoya on Saturday when the 2017 Republic Bank National Youth League continued East Zone action in dusty, late dry season conditions. The day’s menu included, as hors d’oeuvre, temperamental weather that changed as regularly as the substitutes who came onto the …
Read More »Mr Live Wire looks into a mysterious half-mast national flag on Sabga’s funeral day
Sometime on the eighth day of May in the year of our Lord two thousand and seventeen, verily Trinidad and Tobago was smitten with a mysterious sign. As the funeral for the late Dr Anthony Norman Sabga ORTT took place at the Church of the Assumption on Long Circular Road, …
Read More »Petro Jazz finger ex-Hoop of Life boss Keith Clement for suspected misuse of taxpayers’ money
Petro Jazz Basketball Club have lodged an official complaint with the National Basketball Federation of Trinidad and Tobago’s (NBFTT) against former Super 10 Basketball League (SBL) Managing Director and Commissioner Keith Clement. The club is seeking to collect all outstanding prize money due to it for winning the Super 10 competition …
Read More »Dhoni, Sobers or Warne as World T20 skipper? Best looks at ESPN’s World XI Team
Neither Brian Lara with his multiple batting records nor Curtly Ambrose with his deadly destructive 20.99 ODI bowling average was deemed good enough to make the final ESPN World XI. Joel Garner, whose ODI strike rate is an impressive 50.8 and whose average is even more impressive at an incredible …
Read More »DALY BREAD: Far from closed; JLSC’s damage of the Judiciary must carry consequence!
The Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) blundered when it appointed Mrs Marcia Ayers-Caesar to the office of a Judge of the High Court. At the time of the JLSC’s decision to appoint her, Mrs Ayers-Caesar was the Chief Magistrate and had a list of unfinished cases before her. One …
Read More »In the media too, we like it so! Farrell suggests why media is less trusted than police
“It is often the case though that persons in leadership positions disclaim accountability and responsibility: the school Principal claims she can’t lead her school because it is ‘really the Ministry’ who is in charge; the Public Service Commission claims it can’t do anything, because it is ‘really the Director of …
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