After 180 minutes of football plus stoppage time, there was no separating the national women’s teams of Trinidad and Tobago and Panama. The two outfits played to their second successive draw today as a 1-1 result at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva followed last Thursday’s goalless tie. Once more, it …
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CWI selects 24 players for Best v Best match-up, ahead of Sri Lanka tour
The West Indies Test team will continue preparations for next month’s tour of Sri Lanka with two three-day fixtures in a ‘Best v Best’ match-up of the top red ball players in the region. The teams are led by Kraigg Brathwaite and Jermaine Blackwood and will do battle at the …
Read More »Daly Bread: All farcical and tangled up—between an evasive Govt and an unattractive Opposition
Many readers will recall the political controversies in which President Anthony Carmona, the immediate predecessor of our current president, was involved—arising out of the purported exercise of powers that he thought he had. As a result, citizens hoped that the presidency would return to calmer waters, not made turbulent by …
Read More »Noble: Not waiting for night to come—why Dr Rowley dismounted the tiger
As a child, I learned a saying, ‘Don’t wait until night comes to light a candle to see what you could see in the day’! By this, my mother meant, ‘Don’t wait for a problem to come upon you when it could have been prevented long beforehand’. As a purveyor …
Read More »T2021 W/C: Are Pollard’s men finally ready to change the tune, after ‘collapso’ mess?
At 25 for 1 in the fourth over of England’s pursuit of 55 in the West Indies’ opening match of the 2021 T20 World Cup campaign, Win Predictor gave Kieron Pollard’s side a 1% chance of victory. On commentary on television at the time, former England captain Michael Atherton questioned …
Read More »Massy Stores, IMax and RBC join bmobile, as Wired868 Write Start gathers more prizes
There will be at least 20 winners in the inaugural Write Start essay writing competition, as RBC, Massy Stores and CinemaONE Ltd joined bmobile in bolstering the prizes at stake for young writers. Write Start challenges Trinidad and Tobago-based students aged between 11 and 18 to show off their ideas …
Read More »Nakhid threatens Vieira with Privileges Committee referral; senators clash on impeachment sitting
“[…] Senator [Anthony] Vieira fails to realise the irony and hypocrisy of such a blanket statement against unnamed members of the Opposition, effectively against all of us. And if Senator Vieira does not immediately withdraw this statement—which implicates myself and other senators, who made no such remarks—the Senator will be …
Read More »T2021 W/C: Pollard: ‘Unacceptable… but we won’t panic’; WI out for 55 in disastrous opener against England
The West Indies’ T20 World Cup title defence got off to a disastrous start today as, asked to bat first, the ‘Men in Maroon’ posted the third lowest total ever at this level, managing just 55 runs against England at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the UAE. Only 42-year-old …
Read More »Question for TECU: Is credit union moving further away from its working class roots?
So Thursday was World Credit Union Day. Who exactly in this country celebrated it and what exactly was being celebrated is kinda hazy to me at this moment, what with the way the credit union movement is slowly shifting away from its moorings, the working classes. Slowly, imperceptibly, there is …
Read More »T2021 W/C: If WI ever needed you is now; Pooran makes Best change his tune
October, which sees the start of the 2021 T20 Cricket World Cup, is also Calypso History Month. So it makes sense to me, if we are going to be clear about what this is all about, to allow David Rudder to tell us. In his ‘Rally’, he has found just …
Read More »How will T&T remember the colourful 1990 coup character, Yasin Abu Bakr?
I so wanted to write about the theatrics and the vaudeville-type show just recently put on in Parliament by some seasoned actors and let’s say some neophyte starlets who saw an opportunity to have their names lit up in neon lights. The show debuted on 21 October 2021 and from …
Read More »MSJ: Whose agenda are the UNC seeking to promote by weaponising the Parliament?
“[…] Some commentators are suggesting that there should have been a debate so that answers to questions that the public have could have been obtained. We disagree. “[…] Neither the President nor the former Chair of the PolSC sits in the Parliament so that, given what we’ve heard in the …
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