The Anguilla Football Association (AFA) has confirmed that Women’s National Senior Team head coach Ahkeela Mollon was suspended for ‘abuse’ of a player but stressed that it only received one such complaint about the Trinidad and Tobago-born coach. AFA president Girdon Connor and his administration have faced public criticism over …
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Wired868 turns 10 years old! And here’s how we got there…
On 12 January 2012, Wired868 went live for the first time with a report from a groundbreaking case at the Port-of -Spain High Court. Thirteen members of Trinidad and Tobago’s World Cup 2006 football team—more than half of the history-making 23-man squad—were suing their former employers, the Trinidad and Tobago …
Read More »Clive Lloyd receives knighthood from Duke of Cambridge; now 13th West Indian honoured for cricket
Arise, Sir Clive Lloyd. Legendary former West Indies cricketer Clive Lloyd, one of the game’s most successful captains of all time, today received a knighthood from the Duke of Cambridge for “services to the game of cricket”. Lloyd was due to receive his award last year, only for the ceremony …
Read More »Dear Editor: Arima was capital of east Trinidad; now it’s a ‘lost and forgotten borough’
“[…] Today, when we look at this cherished town that can boast of being the country’s only Royal Chartered Borough—a status granted by Queen Victoria in 1888—we see only a battered and bruised community which has lost all the facilities that made it so special and is now reduced to …
Read More »Rusty T&T to face Bolivia on 21 Jan; Eve names Hudson, ‘Natty’, JP Rochford in training squad
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team finally have a practice game, after five months and three international match windows of inactivity. The Soca Warriors travel to Bolivia to face the host nation from 5pm on 21 January at the Estadio Olimpico Patrio in Sucre. Bolivia have two friendlies …
Read More »CWI reschedule West Indies’ ODIs with Ireland, scrap T20I fixture
The West Indies and Ireland will return to the pitch at Sabina Park on Thursday, as the two nations attempt to complete the ongoing CG Insurance One-day International Series—despite Covid-19 cases and injuries within the tourists’ camp. Cricket Ireland (CI) confirmed five positive cases of the novel coronavirus plus two …
Read More »‘A great team player…’ Lewis, Serrette and Boldon mourn Deon Lendore, Arima’s first Olympic medallist
Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Brian Lewis and former National Association of Athletics Administrations of Trinidad and Tobago (NAAATT) president Ephraim Serrette this morning expressed shock and anguish at the untimely passing of 29-year-old track star Deon Lendore. Lendore, a three-time Olympian who won bronze in the 4 …
Read More »‘I chase bad men!’ How the late Andrew Jennings changed investigative sport journalism
One of my most vivid memories of Andrew Jennings came on our second meeting, after a media conference at the Trinidad Hilton in the build-up to the 2001 Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. It was an elegant event, attended by then Fifa president Sepp Blatter, with every …
Read More »West Indies and Ireland postpone second ODI, after visitors return five positive Covid tests
Cricket West Indies (CWI) and Cricket Ireland (CI) have announced the postponement of tomorrow’s CG Insurance One-day International between the two nations, owing to five positive Covid-19 cases plus two injuries. West Indies won the first ODI of the three-game series on Saturday and were due to face Ireland again …
Read More »Dear Editor: ‘For 1950s’ audiences in T&T, seeing Sidney Poitier on screen […] was a revelation’
“[…] For 1950s’ audiences in Trinidad and Tobago, seeing Sidney Poitier on screen in significant roles was a revelation. This was no longer Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen of Gone with the Wind, Stepin’ Fetchit of so many stereotyped portrayals of the black buffoon or the walk-on appearances by black …
Read More »McWatt and ‘Reds’: Haynes, Sarwan inclusion a boost, but fitness issues, coaching doubts linger
“[…] The Sir Desmond Haynes-led panel should, as its very first order of business, announce the implementation of a new selection-related fitness policy. “Our suggested policy would require all CWI contracted players as well as those others who are in contention for immediate selection on West Indies teams to be …
Read More »Daly Bread: The AG’s dodgy sea legs make his Govt stumble over Ocean Pelican
The People’s National Movement (PNM) campaigned obsessively in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections on the issue of the suitability of Watson Duke for office, and lost comprehensively. Days later, it began trying to discredit the winning party by reference to Duke’s alleged conflicts of interest. The court …
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