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Did Madame Justice Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell try to bully the Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association (TTTTA) by improperly using an injunction as punishment against the National Sporting Organisation (NSO)? On Friday 2 March, the Court of Appeal will rule on the validity of Donaldson-Honeywell’s injunction order, which blocks the TTTTA …

“The Physical Education curriculum, based at the Learning Resource Centre in McBean, Couva, has been headed by a woman and staffed heavily by women, generally trained teachers with years of experience teaching in schools. They are largely responsible for making Physical Education an examinable CXC subject and efforts to have …

“For you to address me in the manner of your last email was nothing short of disrespectful; in fact, it was the most disrespectful email I have ever read. What gives you the authority to address me or any athlete in the tone that you just did is beyond me. …

The legal stakes continue to rise in the impasse between star players Dexter St Louis and Rheann Chung and the Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association (TTTTA). The umbrella body has again ignored the arbitration route and instead responded with a blistering counter-attack on Madame Justice Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell. The TTTTA, …

The lighting issues at the Hasely Crawford Stadium (HCS) country’s major stadium are expected to be resolved in time for the Carifta Games trials, scheduled to commence on 3 March. In fact, the country’s major stadium should be back to full functionality by the end of February. This is the …

The Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association (TTTTA) runs the risk of missing out on the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games as its legal stand-off with the France-based duo of Dexter St Louis and Rheann Chung heads into its final act. Yesterday morning, High Court Judge Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell ruled that …

Just over a year after Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Darryl Smith opened the training track at the Hasely Crawford Stadium (HCS), both the local contractor and the foreign sub-contractor are still waiting, they say, for payment for the project. The outstanding sum is reported as being in the …

Trinidad and Tobago gymnast Thema Williams will not comment on the sex scandal that has engulfed her former United States coach John Geddert and his Twistars USA Gymnastics Club doctor Larry Nassar. Geddert, who coached USA’s gold medal-winning London 2012 Olympics team, was Williams’ coach in the lead-up to the …

“I was unfairly bypassed for selection for the 2018 Commonwealth Games,” stated France-based Trinidad and Tobago international table tennis star, Rheann Chung. “I was neither given an opportunity nor informed of any trial events for selection by the TTTTA, despite my previous contributions as a national of Trinidad and Tobago, …

“Like in several areas of sport, in basketball too, Trinidad and Tobago remains a nation with unexploited or underexploited potential. A variety of unaddressed issues restrict the realization of the existing potential. Among them are the absence of what we might term oneness of purpose and—perhaps as a consequence—the existence …

The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) declared that local athletes will participate in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, CAC Games and Youth Olympic Games, after receiving a TT$3 million cash injection from the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs. The Commonwealth Games will be held in Australia in April while …

The Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SPORTT) started 2018 with another round of downsizing as seven employees were told that their contracts will not be renewed by the state body. The departing employees are Abdul Assalam (projects coordinator), Sheldon Jardine (sport officer), Donna Hashanah (clerical officer), Khadeesha Worrell-Sobers (project …