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 …

Growing up as a child of the ‘50s, you learned that ‘laugh and cry does live in the same house’. This piece of folk wisdom meant that after joy will come sorrow.  The reverse is also true: ‘weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning’. The …

Former Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team star Ahkeela Mollon has had a mixed start to her new career as an international coach.  Whether Mollon is saint or sinner, villain or victim, depends on whom you speak to in Anguilla, though. And after 14 months on the job as …

West Indies middle-order batsman Shamarh Brooks was the difference today as the Maroon Men held off Ireland to win the first of three CG Insurance One-day Internationals (ODI) at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica. Brooks, who made his ODI debut at the ripe age of 33, scored 93 runs (89 …

Former West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has been appointed as the third member of the Men’s Senior Selection Panel. In an announcement today, Cricket West Indies revealed that the 41-year-old former middle-order batsman will join lead selector Desmond Haynes and head coach Phil Simmons on the Senior Selection Panel and …

And still the Wired868 Fantasy Football leader… Dia Hunte ‘KingPool’ has now enjoyed pole position for three successive months in the Wired868 Lime Kickers group, as he rounded off the Old Year as overall winner and December 2021 champ. A feat made all the more remarkable as the England Premier …

Cricket West Indies (CWI) today appointed legendary former West Indies cricketer Dr Desmond Haynes as its new chief selector for the Senior Men’s Team.  Haynes, a former senator in the Barbados Parliament, will lead the selection panel until 30 June 2024—a period that includes the 2022 and 2024 T20 World …

The Trinidad and Tobago men’s 3×3 basketball team has already booked its place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, which starts on 28 July. Whether they get to participate, though, will hinge on a significant thawing of relations between the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) and the …

“[…] NJAC calls on the Government to urgently implement […] a special hazard allowance or similar benefit […] for all frontline workers throughout the health sector. “NJAC notes with interest, that there is already a precedent for this existing throughout the Caribbean and other parts of the world…” The following …

New Public Services Association (PSA) president Leroy Baptiste made his first public statement today, three days after taking office, and it was a call for workers to ‘reject outright the Government’s coercive attempt to force vaccination on the citizenry’. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced on 18 December that, to …

There is something disturbing, and callous, about the way in which the government in general, and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in particular, can sit back and watch the dozens of citizens dying from Covid-19 on a daily basis. Thirty-one deaths in 24 hours are nothing to pat yourself on …

“[…] CWI must request the governments of its member countries to mandate, by September 2022, the addition of West Indies cricket history to the curriculum of all primary and secondary schools within the region.  “CWI should similarly ask governments to also mandate the addition of a paid cricket coach to …