I do not need someone from foreign to tell me that gangsters are fully in charge in many communities, and I dun know that the politicians look the other way and frequently consort with them. It is a reprehensible failure on the part of the elites and belated moaners that …
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Message to the media; musings on premature loss of a Laker as great as great Kobe
Basketball legends never die, a friend joked to me on WhatsApp last Sunday, they just keep hitting fadeaways. And confessing that he had felt physically sick when he first heard the news of Kobe Bryant’s untimely death in a helicopter crash earlier in the day, he explained that, for him, …
Read More »As Pollard’s WI head for Sri Lanka, is headstrong Hetmyer headed for the exit?
Having sent the Irish home with the taste of defeat fresh in their mouths, Kieron Pollard’s victorious West Indies troops are preparing to fly out to Sri Lanka this weekend. After Afghanistan, India and Ireland, the resurgent Caribbean cavaliers must feel fairly confident of their chances of yet another victory …
Read More »Media Monitor: On T&T English, the US Senate’s brown tongues and crossing Trump
In the Senate impeachment trial of Donald J Trump, Adam Schiff spoke good, very good. (I could have wrote ‘was very good’ but that wouldn’t be American in any way, shape or form.) A classy, clearly highly educated advocate, Schiff doubtless impressed all with his eloquence and general delivery. He …
Read More »Noble: Bourse’s brazen defence after FCB IPO scandal
As a young boy, my mother taught me ‘to quit while ahead’. Her context was if you kept talking after you missed a ‘cut tail’ she would look at you and ask: “You really want something?” Every Trinidadian child knows that is the point to shut up. No more complaining …
Read More »‘Demon’ spooks La Horquetta again, as Defence Force down Rangers in cracking clash
Former East Mucurapo Secondary schoolboy Aaron ‘Demon’ Enill stole the plaudits again at Phase 2, La Horquetta as Defence Force FC left the swanky east Trinidad venue with all three points in an impressive 2-0 Pro League win over hosts Terminix La Horquetta Rangers. The result saw the Army/Coast Guard …
Read More »Dear Editor: TTFA committed injustice on Clayton in Futsal appointments
“[…] The TTFA, given that they had all this information prior to making the appointment of the FUTSAL technical staff, must explain to the FUTSAL community—and by extension, the people of this country—on what basis and by what authority, did they accept the recommendations of FATT, in the appointment of …
Read More »Media Monitor: Trump’s Senators tie themselves in impeachment (k)nots
Licks like peas. With a bullpistle. Were I a judge in their case, that is the sentence I would pass on the 50-odd Elsies in the Senate who last week voted against hearing witnesses in the continuing impeachment trial of Donald J Trump. Did Trump ask Ukraine for a quid …
Read More »Demming: What steel bands can teach us about goals, leadership and teamwork
I have been mulling over the lessons of the panyard experience and continue to feel that the panyards are on to some yet unexplored management concept in the way they organise themselves for Carnival. Mind you, there are as many systems as there are bands, but what is common is …
Read More »Pro League round-up: M’vt Caledonia held goalless by AC PoS; plus midweek fixtures
Morvant Caledonia United missed a chance to climb one spot to third place in the Pro League standings today, as they were held goalless by AC Port of Spain in action at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar. For AC, the result marked the first time this season that they …
Read More »Brereton: ‘TTFA mamaguy Clayton’; Look Loy: ‘Konstin was best choice for Futsal’
Former Men’s National Futsal Team manager Ronald Brereton has criticised the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical committee for overlooking Clayton Morris for job of national head coach and accused the local football body of siding with the ‘illegitimate’ Futsal Association of Trinidad and Tobago (FATT). However, technical committee …
Read More »Daly Bread: Just an expensive red box, unless politicians can think outside of it
Her Excellency the President spoke a little over a week ago at the re-opening of the Red House, the seat of our parliament. As a self-described emissary of the people, she brought a message to the parliament to the effect that whatever the politicians are doing within the Red House …
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