Before international matches begin, it has become customary to play the national anthems of the teams. It wasn’t always so. In fact, that helped the West Indies cricket team avoid the dilemma of finding a song that represented its constituents fairly. Ours was (and still is) the only multi-national Test …
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Dr Teelucksingh: Will T&T stand together for Health… or alone in illness?
We trust Google more than doctors. And it is costing us. We are living in the most medically advanced time in human history. Unfortunately, trust in medicine has never felt more fragile. It has worsened since Covid. We can map the human genome. We can replace failing organs. We can …
Read More »Dr Harris: Valuing workers is only way to avoid brain drain and retain T&T’s best assets
“[…] In his 1971 book The Mechanics of Independence, ANR Robinson wrote that: ‘As financial rewards are lower in the less developed country, the decisive factor of keeping its skilled people from emigrating are likely to be career opportunity and job satisfaction.’ “Simply put, if we do not value our …
Read More »James among five T&T Women’s additions for crucial W/Cup qualifier; but Ke’die out
Talented box-to-box midfielder Asha James has rejoined the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team for next Friday’s closing Group F contest against El Salvador at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. The Women Soca Warriors need a win to qualify for the 2026 Concacaf W Championship and …
Read More »SSFL abandons outstanding 2025 games; St Augustine and Malick stay up after controversial ruling
The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) executive committee has abandoned four outstanding games from the 2025 season, with a significant impact on the respective divisions. The abandoned matches are: the Boys U-14 and U-16 National finals (both involving Naparima College and Signal Hill Secondary); the Girls Big Five final between …
Read More »Yorke: ‘You don’t have to be a football expert to see the improvement’; ex-T&T coach opens up on his tenure
“[…] It was a bit of a slap in the face. Knowing the work we put in to take that team to where we did, what we had to go through to get the players to join, the change in the dressing room, and the culture of the football. “[…] …
Read More »Early Bird: Calypso canines and curious case of Chalkdust’s tongue-in-cheek criticisms
Dogs, we have heard from since the Rock of Ages was a pebble, are man’s best friend. On the evidence Bobby and I have accumulated, it would seem they get along pretty well with calypsonians too. I think it’s a safe bet that if there were a part of the …
Read More »Daly Bread: Culture and the economy—the leveraging of carnival
In light of current general statements about economic diversification, it will not surprise my readers that I will proceed on my break, commencing today, only after some further comments concerning pan and culture. In fact, one of my intended video documentaries will be about my exposure to pan, which started …
Read More »Dr Teelucksingh: Relentless pressure, poor sleep, hidden despair—what cross do you carry this Easter?
There are many ways to kill a man. Some are sudden. Some are brutal. Some are mercifully brief. Crucifixion was a slow, deliberate medical death. The Romans may not have had physiology textbooks, blood gas analysis or intensive care units, but they understood something grimly practical about the human body: …
Read More »Dr Teelucksingh: What should leadership sound like? A line was crossed
The danger was never the word. The danger… was that it sounded familiar. Once upon a time, leadership had a language. It was measured. It was deliberate. It understood that words, once spoken, carried weight far beyond the moment in which they were uttered. Today, it seems, we are learning …
Read More »Vaneisa: Are warm and nurturing family relationships the norm?
For some time, the thought of approaching a memoir as a collection of essays has been floating about. Assembling memories in the hope that they might make for useful reading means committing to candour and truth. People’s feelings have to be taken into account. What to include, what to leave …
Read More »Early Bird: Down the rabbit hole of kaiso’s cats and dogs and the continuing Keith/ Kamla cussout
Truth be told, Dr Keith Rowley should have held his tongue—he does not have the moral high ground. He should not have responded to Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s allegation, made under cover of Parliament without evidence, about the source of the money used to erect the new Balisier House. But not confident …
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