We may be having a progressive cultural shift. I am referring to the proposed need for “permission slips” to take a wine on a woman in a fete or on the road on Carnival days. The probability of that shift is to be measured by Machel Montano’s quick reverse from …
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Huitema hattrick hero as Canada KO feisty T&T; hosts sunk after controversial red card
Trinidad and Tobago gave CONCACAF giants, Canada, a scare but, in the end, were eliminated with a group match to spare as they fell 4-1 tonight in CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship action at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Lanky striker Jordyn Huitema lived up to her billing for Canada …
Read More »Judah Garcia and Ranae Ward are SSFL MVPs; Riley and “Mama” Joseph fail to make Top 5
Shiva Boys’ Hindu College playmaker Judah Garcia and Bishop Anstey (Port-of-Spain) midfield maestro Ranae Ward were the big winners yesterday as the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) toasted its stars of the 2017 season. Garcia led Shiva Boys to the Coca-Cola National Intercol and South Intercol titles while Ward inspired …
Read More »We’re here to win! USA open account against Nicaragua; Mexico spank dismal Jamaica
Defending the title they have won in the competition’s last four editions, USA got off to a winning start in the 2018 edition of the CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship. On a cool Friday evening at the Ato Boldon Stadium, they defeated Nicaragua 2-0. On the second evening of tournament action …
Read More »U-20 Women: USA down Nicaragua while Mexico whip foreign-assembled Jamaicans
United States and Mexico made confident starts to their CONCACAF 2018 Women’s Under-20 Championship campaigns today as they swept past gutsy but outclassed opposition in Nicaragua and Jamaica respectively at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. USA have won five of the seven editions of this tournament played thus far …
Read More »Shabazz: Haiti caught us by surprise; U-20 Women must recover quickly with Canada lurking
Trinidad and Tobago Under-20 Women’s coach Jamaal Shabazz anticipated that his team’s opening encounter in the CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship against Haiti was going to be a “High Noon” affair—and it came to pass. The hosts played their role in a five goal thriller which saw them edged out 3-2 …
Read More »U-20 Women: Haiti makes T&T sorry, Mondésir trick KOs hosts despite Princely start
Haiti Women’s National Under-20 Team captain and forward Nérilia Mondésir turned 19 on Wednesday and, by all appearances, she opted to celebrate her birthday a day late. Trinidad and Tobago enjoyed the perfect start to their CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva tonight. But, by the final …
Read More »Showdown at the Ato Boldon Stadium; can T&T U-20 women outgun Haiti?
When Caribbean rivals Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti meet from 6.30pm today in a CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s encounter, there will be, coach Jamaal Shabazz promises, fireworks. Addressing the media at yesterday’s press briefing at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, Shabazz compared the match-up to what happens in the classic …
Read More »Ready to represent! (Video) T&T Women’s U-20 squad talk to Wired868TV
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 Team coach Jamaal Shabazz and players Natisha John, Amaya Ellis, Ranae Ward, Asha James and Aaliyah Prince speak to Wired868TV before the CONCACAF Championships in Couva, Trinidad: Editor’s Note: Ellis is injured and will miss the CONCACAF tournament. More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior …
Read More »Claude’s Comments: The truth about Africa, Africans, their diaspora and their depiction in western media
The description of “African countries” and their diaspora in Haiti as “shitholes” goes way beyond the racist vulgarity of a decadent American President. It is merely a kind of sordid culmination of centuries of disparagement of Africans and Africa in the interest of western capitalism and white supremacy. But how …
Read More »U-20 Women: Shabazz claims “underdog” status at home; tips Prince to sizzle
When the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 first take the field from 6.30pm tomorrow at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva in the CONCACAF Under-20 tournament, it is their Haitian opponents who, coach Jamaal Shabazz says, will be the favourites to walk away victorious. “We don’t mind the underdog …
Read More »Not Condemning: The tragedy of Laventille, Desperadoes, crime and bandits
Trinidad and Tobago has always been dreadful at organising anything but Carnival. Nowadays, we can’t even organise that properly. And it is killing us, in some ways, literally. The example of Desperadoes and the Laventille Hill is instructive. Laventille has been problematic but it has produced some of the most …
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