A regular reader, who messages me occasionally, opened a WhatsApp exchange about last week’s Budget debate in the House of Representatives with the question: “Have you heard the comments targeted at citizens made in Parliament?” She added: “Honestly, whenever I think they can’t get any worse, they do. I do …

“Words are the clothes thoughts wear” — Samuel Beckett, Irish writer. The Budget debate and its fallout sent me scurrying to recall Beckett’s writings. He is the author of “Waiting for Godot”—a play the late James Lee Wah introduced to me in the early 70s.  The state of play on …

It was muddy, sluggish and tense. But most importantly, when referee Jordan Cox blew his whistle at the end of 90 minutes at the African Ground in Enterprise, Chaguanas North Secondary walked away with a crucial 1-0 win over Moruga Secondary to potentially save their status as a Secondary Schools …

“[…] If it was unsafe for schools to stay open, why were the non-essential businesses allowed to stay open with the workers exposed to the same risk? “[…] We must consider whether these weather alerts are reaching the population—especially in rural areas—and are they being understood? […]” The following Letter …

Today’s scheduled top of the table Tobago Boys Championship Division match between Bishop’s High School and Scarborough Secondary is now the second game of the 2022 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) season to be postponed due to a Covid-19 scare. A release from the SSFL today revealed that the fixture …

The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) executive committee will wait until Friday morning to render a verdict on whether the next round of Championship Division matches will play as scheduled. The SSFL postponed all Under-14 and Girls Championship Division matches rostered for today. However, if the skies continue to hold, …

“[…] Trinidad and Tobago is now in possession of three gold medals at the highest level of the sport, which is the true measure of the performance of athletes. “Our failure to properly recognise the 2008 Olympic 4×100 metre champion athletes is incomprehensible, despicable, unfair, unjust, improper and a disservice to …

The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) executive has postponed all Premier Division games scheduled for today, “due to the inclement weather”. The games will now be moved “to a date to be fixed”. The decision follows heavy rainfall this morning with flooding across parts of the country. Today’s marquee match-up …

The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) executive committee announced the postponement of all Central Zone Boys Championship Division matches this week due to a Covid-19 scare. The decision was taken, according to the SSFL, “due to the fact that students from Presentation College (Chaguanas) and Couva East Secondary are exhibiting …

With the proposed 2022-2023 budget having been laid in Parliament, a lot of Trinbagonians have been forced to be more circumspect in how they spend their precious dollars, especially as many public sector workers are still earning at pre-2104 rates! Nevertheless, something has happened to us even before this budget …

The Cricket West Indies (CWI) selection panel has cut talented batsman Shimron Hetmyer from its ICC T20 World Cup team, after the 25-year-old cricketer’s apparent reluctance to board a flight to Australia. Hetmyer, according to a CWI press release, missed two flights to Australia and wore out the patience of …

For the last two weeks I have focused on how successive governments—PNM and UNC, or UNC-led—miserably failed us in providing the equipment and specially trained personnel capable of detecting and interdicting illegal firearms importation through the legal ports. We now have an unqualified acknowledgment from McDonald Jacob, the acting commissioner …