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(Part 50.) Judge by numbers. After exactly seven weeks of counting down, here we are: one day to go to the 50th anniversary of the West Indies victory over Australia in the inaugural Men’s Cricket World Cup final at Lord’s. Ahead of the grand occasion—and it gets grander and more …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dwight Yorke said his troops deserved a point against Haiti last night, although he acknowledged that their opponents never lost control of the match despite being a player short. At the final whistle, Haiti outshot Trinidad and Tobago 16 to 9 …

Trinidad and Tobago are still alive in the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup but they could only take a point from a 10-man Haiti outfit, as the two Caribbean nations played to a 1-1 draw in front of a largely empty Shell Energy Stadium in Houston. The Soca Warriors can still …

(Part 49.) Gary Gilmour’s day. While the West Indies were breezing past New Zealand at The Oval in London in one semi-final, a relative newcomer to the Australian side had a day to remember up at Headingley in Leeds, as Ian Chappell’s men overcame their old rivals, England, to book …

“[…] The 10 years under the Dr Keith Rowley-led PNM saw a vicious attack on the trade union movement and the working class as that government pursued its neo-liberal policies that result in the rich becoming richer, the middle-income struggle to make ends meet, and the poor not able to …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team coach Dwight Yorke is confident of a response from his players against Haiti in Houston tomorrow, as the Soca Warriors look to put their 5-0 Concacaf Gold Cup defeat to the USA in the rear view. At present, the Soca Warriors are bottom …