“[…] Pfizer is widely perceived to be at the top of the tree, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson just beneath that, followed by Oxford AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Sputnik. I don’t know the extent to which this is driving decision-making, but I’ve heard several people say that they’re prepared to wait …
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Fantasy Football: Geelalsingh’s ‘Geeze and Ages’ climbs to joint first as Liverpool win—KFC, Cuts R Us join fun
The Wired868 Lime Kickers leadership board was a Liverpool FC love-in this weekend, as Daniel Geelalsingh’s ‘Geeze and Ages’, Andre Roberts’ ‘A Wick 5_Amco’ and Nigel Seerattan’s ‘No Europe FC’ moved to joint first with a total of 202 points—after each scoring 87 points in match week two. Astounding? Not …
Read More »T2021 W/C: Thompson has Gayle, Fidel and McCoy in dream WI team—but wary about too many lefties
Let me say from the outset, like Michael Holding, I think the only thing missing from a T20 match is (in our case) a case or two of Carib and a pot of pelau, some bottle and spoon and a DJ, plus some ‘winer gyul’ (the IPL & the CPL …
Read More »T&T women draw Guyana, Nicaragua, Dominica and Turks & Caicos in Concacaf W qualifiers
The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team must top Guyana, Nicaragua, Dominica and the Turks and Caicos Islands to get into the 2022 Concacaf W Championship, after the twin-island republic was drawn in Group F today. The Women Soca Warriors are one of six seeded nations for the Concacaf …
Read More »B&B Ep 15: Ato Boldon on Crawford, Greene, Bolt, NAAATT—and the highs and lows of his track career
Four-time Olympic medallist, coach and analyst Ato Boldon talks to Burdie and Barney about the highs and lows of his storied track career, fighting with the NAAATT, his relationship with former teammate Maurice Greene, why Italian sprint champion Lamont Jacobs deserves the benefit of the doubt, and the impact of …
Read More »Dear Editor: T&T U-21 hockey teams go straight from quarantine to action in Chile—how can they perform?
“[…] (The Trinidad and Tobago National Under-21 Hockey teams) left at midnight on Thursday, spent 13 hours at the airport in Panama, and finally arrived in Chile on Saturday morning. Then, they were placed in quarantine for up to 48 hours, until they got their PCR test results. “This means …
Read More »Demming: Dear Trinidad and Tobago, we must ‘become the leaders we wish to see’
Every time Honourable Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley opens her mouth my phone lights up with comments, video clips and messages of longing for a prime minister like her. Just stop it! We have whom we have; just deal with it—because in the natural flow of things, that will …
Read More »Noble: A long way to go! T&T women clearly ‘still in the clutches of misogynistic men’
There was an advertising slogan, ‘You’ve come a long way, Baby!’, in the late 60s that reflected the rising empowerment of women. By the early 80s, a board including two men, inspired by Radhica Saith, ran the first local Halfway House for Battered Women. Thirty years ago, this week, our …
Read More »Daly Bread: The silence of the nights—the govt’s ‘naïve assumptions’ about Despers pan theatre
The words of Kahlil Gibran in The Prophet inspire generations of readers all over the world. In the words of an Oxford University lecturer, the book ‘serves various occasions or big moments in one’s life’. I have so far escaped the worst of the deprivations of the pandemic. My pandemic …
Read More »‘Blatant disrespect!’ Players lift lid on G/Cup feud, which almost saw T&T withdraw before Mexico game
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team came within a whisker of elimination from the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup tournament before the competition even started in earnest. But the wily opponent that nearly chopped down the Soca Warriors, according to the players themselves, was not French Guiana or Montserrat …
Read More »B&B (Trailer): Ato explains why Usain Bolt almost defied logic as a sprinter
Four-time Olympic medallist, coach and analyst Ato Boldon explains why incomparable Jamaica sprinter Usain Bolt was truly one of a kind. Look out for our full interview on Sunday 22 August as Boldon talks to Burdie and Barney about the highs and lows of his storied track career, his relationship …
Read More »MSJ: Maduro and Guaidó MOU is ‘positive development’, which exposes ‘UNC’s political opportunism’
“[…] Some of the main items agreed to in the MOU include the recognition by the Opposition of the legitimacy of Nicolás Maduro’s government, a renouncing of violence and a commitment to work for the well-being of Venezuelans, and a pledge to request that US sanctions and restrictive measures be …
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