Trinidad and Tobago Pro League club W Connection FC will be fighting for their Caribbean Club Championship survival on Friday evening when they tackle Jamaica’s Arnett Gardens FC from 8pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Connection lost 0-1 to Haiti’s Real Hope Football Academy in Group A action …
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St Louis/Chung v TTTTA: Court ruling could deny T&T’s table tennis place at Commonwealth Games
The Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association (TTTTA) runs the risk of missing out on the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games as its legal stand-off with the France-based duo of Dexter St Louis and Rheann Chung heads into its final act. Yesterday morning, High Court Judge Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell ruled that …
Read More »Dear Editor: T&T’s culture trap; are shortcuts and lame ducks with us to stay?
“In Trinidad and Tobago, it is almost a cultural reflex to take the easiest and shortest route. It is the cultural reason why we fail, as a people, to make any progress. “[…] Which is why the PSC made the glaring error that people external to themselves can see but …
Read More »Not Condemning: Media lesson for Stuart Young; a little broughtupsy never hurt nobody
What would make Minister Stuart Young think that he could call in on a radio programme last Friday—or any day for that matter!—and deliver his treatise without interruption? What would make such a thought even enter his brain? Ignorance? Arrogance? Or is it, to follow the lead of the PNM …
Read More »Dear Editor: ‘Eric Williams was no national leader!’; why most Indians didn’t support first PM
“We used to call it the People’s Negro Movement and sometimes the People’s N—r Movement because we saw nothing national about it. We saw the PNM as the enemy and [Dr Eric] Williams as the chief enemy. And Williams made it quite clear he saw us Indians as the enemy …
Read More »Dear Editor: Chutney has a place in Carnival no matter what Cro Cro says!
“[George] Singh’s outburst was a public exposé of what the Indo-Trinidadian (Indian) community had always known, i.e. Indian culture (e.g. chutney, pichakaree) is given marginal or no space in ‘national’ and regional shows (e.g. CARIFESTA). […] “In all his anger, Singh was careful not to confirm what almost every Trinidadian suspected …
Read More »Haiti make histoire! French-speaking islanders take maiden World Cup spot; Mexico edge USA
Roughly two dozen Haitian teenagers made history for the French-speaking islanders this evening at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva when Haiti booked their first-ever berth at a FIFA Women’s World Cup after a 1-0 triumph over Canada. It will be only the Caribbean nation’s second appearance in a FIFA …
Read More »Daly Bread: What’s left of Carnival? Reviewing the problems at Revue
On Wednesday last, we received news that the Revue Calypso tent was the latest victim of money problems in the cultural milieu. This news was made worse when readers digested that the Revue was more than 50 years old and had been founded by the late Lord Kitchener. Kitchener’s body …
Read More »“I feel cheated!” Stadium contractors wrangle over money woes while Smith mum
Just over a year after Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Darryl Smith opened the training track at the Hasely Crawford Stadium (HCS), both the local contractor and the foreign sub-contractor are still waiting, they say, for payment for the project. The outstanding sum is reported as being in the …
Read More »USA need penalties to hurdle Haiti; Mexico also use shootout route to eclipse Canada
The United States held off a feisty Haitian outfit to qualify for their eighth straight CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship final at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva tonight. But only just, as they defeated a 10-member Haiti squad 3-0 on kicks from the penalty spot after a 1-1 draw in …
Read More »Dear Editor: Kamal Persad wrong to ignore PNM’s history with citizens of Indian descent
“From the inception of the party under the leadership of Dr Eric Williams, the PNM […] could not have succeeded without the important role played by citizens of Indian descent who were either members of the PNM or citizens who put country first in their respective roles. “It was people …
Read More »Corneal aims to widen player pool through TTFA Primary School programme
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical director Anton Corneal will attempt to widen the pool of local players and introduce children to the game at an early age via the Nationwide Primary Schools Project, which was launched on Wednesday morning at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar. Corneal was …
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