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Mid-April, the 53rd anniversary of the declaration by Dr Eric Williams’ embattled government of T&T’s first state of emergency, and two voices are in my head. One is real, the other imagined. Neither will go away. “Power alone will never make us strong. The heart must also sing the human …

Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 Team head coach Dernelle Mascall credited Puerto Rico for their strides in the women’s game, after they eliminated the Women Soca Warriors with a thumping 5-0 win yesterday in a 2023 Concacaf Under-20 Championship qualifier in Curaçao. However, Mascall’s post-mortem of the team’s emphatic …

Trinidad and Tobago’s 2024 Women’s World Under-20 Cup campaign ended in Curaçao tonight, after just three matches. The Women Soca Warriors needed a win over Puerto Rico to advance to the Concacaf Championship, but it wasn’t even close—as the ladies in red, white and black slumped to a 5-0 defeat …

The East Zone Under-15 division of the 2023 Republic Cup National Youth Football League (NYFL) is getting quite sticky at the top, with four teams jockeying for the top three qualifying spots on offer for the quarterfinal stage. On Sunday at the Eddie Hart Grounds in Tacarigua, Arima Semi-Pro Blasters …

Trinidad and Tobago were again beneficiaries of the talent on the Sister Isle today, as the Women’s National Under-20 Team held off Guadeloupe 3-2 in Concacaf Championship qualifying action in Curaçao. All three goals for the two island republic came off the boot of Scarborough Secondary forward J’Eleisha Alexander, who …

Seventeen-year-old attacker Talia Martin had a competitive international debut to remember in Curaçao today, as the Speyside High Secondary student scored twice and created another in a 3-0 win for Trinidad and Tobago over the Cayman Islands in their opening 2023 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship qualifying fixture. The result means …

The Soca Warriors will open their 2023 Gold Cup campaign with a qualifier against Guadeloupe at the Drv Pnk Stadium in Fort Lauderdale on either 16 or 17 June. Should the Warriors prevail, they will then meet the winner between Guyana and Grenada at the same venue on 20 June—to …

“[…] On behalf of the Caribbean Association of the National Olympic Committee, I am delighted to share our full support to the International Cricket Council (ICC) and Cricket West Indies (CWI) campaign to include cricket in the Olympic Games sports programme for Los Angeles 2028. “We strongly believe the sport’s inclusion in the programme will have far-reaching …

Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 team head coach Dernelle Mascall leads a 21-member squad to Curaçao today as they prepare to launch their 2023 Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship at the qualifying stage. Trinidad and Tobago face the Cayman Islands from 3pm (local and TT Time) at the Rignaal Jean …

Two of our Ministers recently attended Jamaica’s Champs Track and Field Event. This was a great idea to expand the education of Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, the minister of Education, and Shamfa Cudjoe, the minister of Sports and Community Development. If their interest was really in coming up with a solution to …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Beach Soccer Team will be playing for an inaugural spot at the Bali 2023 World Beach Games tonight when they face the United States from 7.15pm at the Costa del Sol National Stadium in El Salvador. It will be the second of two meetings …

Dazzling free kicks, goalkeeping blunders and some roaring “Golden Lions” were on the loose yesterday, as the 2023 edition of the Republic Cup National Youth Football League (NYFL) All-Star weekend concluded at the Republic Cup Sports Ground in Barataria. Is anyone on the hunt for a dead-ball specialist? AC Port …