“The refusal to implement 21st century ideology into the police force means a continuation of a weak police infrastructure. It means a continuation of the lack of accountability within a sector that has a rogue element that undermines its performance. “When we continue inanely with systems that have failed us, …
Read More »“Torpedo”: We feel the Sport Ministry is deliberately ‘stiff-arming’ national athletes
“When our minds should have been in training mode and preparing for Rio, they were directly derailing our focus with issues that should not have been. “The Ministry has a system in place that is intended to help and facilitate athletes representing the country, but instead we feel as though …
Read More »Letter to the Editor: Olympic sprinter, Callender, speaks out about representing T&T
“I do not know why persons who do wrong, especially with false credentials, nowadays get promotions and a pat on the back but when you sacrifice to build your own credentials with positivity some folks think twice to support the effort. “Nonetheless, we athletes have a responsibility with what we …
Read More »Letter to Editor: How TTSL could revolutionise T&T football; and why you should care!
“For the first time, these clubs have the opportunity and the awesome responsibility of control over the administration, the politics and the finances of the competition in which they participate… “TTSL is, in conception and practice (so far) an example of grassroots, ‘coming from below’ football democracy. It comes from …
Read More »Letter to the Editor: Why it is hard to care about West Indies cricket
“How has it come to this? A woeful revolving merry-go-around of mediocrity, where an average coach gets to ‘rehabilitate’ a struggling team… “No offence to Stuart Law—the third Aussie to try his hand at the role of head coach—but questionably short stints coaching Sri Lanka and Bangladesh don’t qualify you …
Read More »Letter to Editor: Uber-tter help PH drivers too! New taxi service can solve old problem
“Inadvertently, [Uber] has created just the type of opportunity for the thousands of ‘pirate taxi’ drivers and owners to forcefully make their case for regularisation and legalisation of the necessary public service that they have provided to our population for decades, and claim their right to earn an honest legal living …
Read More »T&T’s Beijing 4×100 team: Thanks for the love… But don’t forget Olympic promises!
“We were promised in July that something would be done to assure that we were rewarded for our efforts and representing T&T with integrity. There were media releases and pictures taken… and then nothing! “We were forgotten about and disappeared to them like magic.” The following statement was posted by …
Read More »TTOC: Premature to speculate on golden upgrade, IOC hasn’t ruled on T&T 4×100 team yet
The following statement on the IOC’s sanction of Jamaica’s Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 4×100 sprint champion Nesta Carter and the implications for the second placed Trinidad and Tobago quartet of Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender and Richard “Torpedo” Thompson was submitted by the TTOC: The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic …
Read More »Letter to the Editor: All are involved! Why we must act to save T&T from bloodshed
“[Wayne Chance] made the point that when, in a community, an individual loses relatives either: by police/criminal violence in spirals such as brother(s), uncle, cousin, when an individual rots in jail awaiting trial, when prison means perennial persecution instead of prosecution, and when one is cut off from family and …
Read More »TTOC joins marathon fund raiser: Donations used for athlete welfare and preparation
“The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) is participating in the Trinidad and Tobago International Marathon to raise funds for the TTOC athlete welfare and preparation fund.” The following Letter to the Editor on a fund raising initiative for the TTOC’s athlete welfare and preparation fund was submitted by the …
Read More »Letter to Editor: Why Grant’s link of Rowley and TEDx is not an idea worth spreading
“TEDx Talks are about “ideas worth spreading”. The speaker is tasked with building an idea in the mind of the audience. “Did the Prime Minister do that? The jury is still out…” The following Letter to the Editor on columnist Lennox Grant’s criticism of a speech by Prime Minister Dr …
Read More »Letter to Editor: Let’s talk sex, child marriage and T&T’s sexually charged society
“The current debate on child marriages has been a morose, crass exchange of rebuttals over the right to grant the child the opportunity to marry or not marry along a subjective morally defined age range—vis a vis a grant of the right to let them know when to lust, love …
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