The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team shrugged aside a six-goal target tonight to advance to the final Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifying round, putting an emphatic 13-0 pummelling on Grenada at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The result never looked in doubt as, by halftime, the Women …
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Daly Bread: Bitter-sweet royal wedding Saturday; Kingdom Choir versus PanTrinbago comess
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, aged 19, was the cellist at the royal wedding Saturday before last. Just about the time he was playing Schubert’s Ave Maria, in a setting of style and civility, two things happened. The first was my train of thought that we had artistes of high calibre, who could …
Read More »Bim at 45 (Pt 2): Robertson’s masterful camera work adds to Tanker’s music to make a politician cringe
Andre Tanker orchestrates—there is no better word—perfect harmony between musical movements and plot movements. Key to that harmony is the articulation of a fusion that proved a prophetic precursor to the diversity of musical forms taken for granted in Trinidad today. At a time when ‘Trinidad music’ meant almost exclusively …
Read More »Fresh SSFL registration drama: “Caps” set to be docked points but likely to avoid relegation
Carapichaima East Secondary look set to lose points for flouting registration rules during their 2017 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division campaign. However, they are expected to survive relegation, in a final twist to the controversial season. “Caps” are facing a probe into the registration of seven of their …
Read More »Shabazz talks missed chances, Maylee and the Almighty’s will; St Kitts challenge with “fire in [their] eyes”
“What a game, eh!” exclaimed Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team coach Jamaal Shabazz, as he opened last night’s post-game media conference. “[It was] not one [that’s] good for the heart but sometimes you have to fight. “Sometimes you don’t like to fight but fighting sometimes is good for …
Read More »Tasha strikes late to deny St Kitts and Nevis; T&T need goal fest on Sunday after surprise draw
Trinidad and Tobago will have to wait until Sunday night to book their place in the next Caribbean qualifying round, after the hosts settled for a 1-1 draw tonight against St Kitts and Nevis at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. It might easily have been worse for the Women …
Read More »Bim at 45: Production far from perfect but Andre Tanker’s music scores big
“Revisiting Bim four and a half decades later, thanks to the 40th Anniversary Film and Music Pack, I find the film’s imperfections all the more endearing, its shortcomings charming. Perfection in any home-grown Trinidad film product back then would have been out of sync with place and context; it remains …
Read More »Why Imbert must stand firm for the sake of our future economic development
“Thanks to State intervention in almost every sector of the economy over the years, we have developed and enjoyed a comfortable standard of living subsidised by the State… That has provided real opportunities for many as well as lifted large segments of the population out of poverty. “However, it has …
Read More »Glasgow to head new TTPA; call issued for national dialogue on tourism and Carnival
Randy Glasgow, the well-known production company which bears his name and which put on a slew of shows locally every year, has been elected to head the newly formed Trinidad and Tobago Promoters Association (TTPA). Another four members, including Secretary Colin Miles, were on Tuesday elected to form the Executive …
Read More »Not Condemning: T&T’s Angostura Farm, where all animals are holy but only cows are sacred
“Doudou!” “Darling! “Darkie!” “Red ting!” “Sweet ting! “Slim ting!” “Tick ting!” “Tall ting!” Their catcalls come at us from all sides, across the street, across the room, in the Stadium, in the Oval, in City Gate, at the taxi-stand, everywhere. Their candid remarks about our bodies are delivered without hesitation, …
Read More »John-Williams calls AGM on Indian Arrival Day; TTFA president again picks red-letter day to face awkward questions
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams has scheduled the football body’s next AGM for Wednesday 30 May—which is Indian Arrival Day—as the National Sporting Organisation (NSO) makes a fifth attempt to have its 2016 financial statement approved. The football body’s membership has so far resisted John-Williams’ attempts …
Read More »Royal weddings, British colonialism, empire and reparations and Caribbean mindlessness and spinelessness
“The royal wedding is in itself an urgent reminder of the need for reparations. The extravagant lifestyles of the monarchic family draw upon ill-gotten gains that have their roots in slavery. The opulent wedding ceremony was also no doubt connected to wealth that came from the subjugation of black and …
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