“[…] The doctor asked me no less than three times if I was sure I wanted to tie my tubes. I had to give her my life story and a bullet-point list of logical reasons why I didn’t want children. “Even after all of that, she couldn’t help but write …
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Wired868TV (Video): “Vengeance is ours!” Pleasantville Secondary target clean sweep
Wired868TV and First Citizens Bank present Pleasantville Secondary: The South Zone Girls champions are out for revenge after National Intercol final loss meant they finished one trophy shy of a clean sweep of titles in 2017: More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024 Trinidad …
Read More »The cost of marginalising Tech-Voc Education (Pt 2): full certificates and the ignored gender agenda
“We cannot simply produce a Policy for Education and not seek to educate the public on the value of Tech-Voc education. We must also demonstrate that value by offering Technology Education in all schools as a core subject in the National Curriculum. “[…] Another concept that needs to be examined …
Read More »From Chenette Alley to India: Khary Pierre aims to make most of West Indies break
One of the new darlings of Trinidad and Tobago cricket, left-arm spinner Khary Pierre, is hoping to leave an indelible mark on West Indies cricket, a mark far greater than his exploits in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) competition to date. In the last two Hero CPL seasons, 27 year-old …
Read More »Daly Bread: Sing de chorus; why Tourism Minister should get out more and T&T needs What’s On app
By the time of publication, Sing de Chorus would have completed eight performances—including a morning show for students at a discounted price. Sing de Chorus is a calypso musical written by Rawle Gibbons. It is the first part of his trilogy of calypso musicals tracing the history of calypso from …
Read More »Thailand edge T&T 1-0 in Bangkok, Humphrey injury scare after nasty fall
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will leave the Far East empty-handed after a 1-0 loss to Thailand today in international friendly action in Bangkok. Trinidad and Tobago are 32 places higher than Thailand in the FIFA rankings—90 to 122—but there was little sign of such superiority at …
Read More »SSFL 18 (Round-up): ‘Pres’ stay out front; but San Juan North maintain pursuit
Defending Secondary School Football League (SSFL) Premier Division champions Presentation College (San Fernando) reeled off their eighth win of the 2018 season today, as they held off hosts St Augustine Secondary 2-1 in action this evening. The result saw the “Pres Lions” stretch their lead atop the standings from two …
Read More »The cost of marginalising Tech-Voc Education: a country of ‘technicians’ but not ‘technologists’
“The idea that bright students use their brains rather than their hands continues to haunt the Education System; it has a demonstrably negative effect on the Tech-Voc subjects. “[…] The result of this prejudice is that we have technicians but not technologists, that we produce students who can repair shoes …
Read More »From romance to reality (Pt 2): how Compte de Lopinot forcibly enslaved free Africans
The well known, formerly enslaved, black abolitionist, Mary Prince, cogently argued in her autobiography in 1831: “How can slaves be happy when they have the halter round their neck and the whip upon their back?” Prince was directly confronting the lie of slave owners and other apologists for slavery that …
Read More »Unrest, victimisation and Randy’s letter; “Yaya” spills beans on T&T’s campaign and her refusal to play against USA
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team star forward and all-time record goal scorer, Kennya “Yaya” Cordner, revealed today that she refused to represent her country in World Cup qualifying action last night, after becoming disenchanted with head coach Shawn Cooper. Cordner was initially listed on the starting line-up for …
Read More »Joevin, Guerra pull out of Thailand friendly; Lawrence: “Every action [has] consequences”
The Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team will be short of two key attacking players for Sunday’s friendly international against Thailand in Bangkok, after German-based winger Joevin Jones and United States-based playmaker Ataulla Guerra both pulled out of the squad. A Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) press release said …
Read More »T&T women routed 7-0 by USA; John-Williams: We are not worse than four years ago
The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team closed off their 2019 World Cup qualifying campaign on the receiving end of a rout tonight, as they were mauled 7-0 by the United States in 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship action in Cary, North Carolina. The Women Soca Warriors kicked off the …
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