Commentators and editorial writers have already assessed that the showing of our Trinidad and Tobago athletes at the recent concluded Tokyo Olympic Games was poor and below the medal standard that we have achieved in every Olympics since Barcelona 1992. Ironically, at the previous Tokyo Olympics in 1964, our then …
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Noble: The virus and our democracy—the problem with ‘us’ and ‘them’
The Covid-19 pandemic hit our shores at the wrong time. Indeed, there is no right time, but the state of our nation had made us incredibly vulnerable. We were in a crisis, adjusting to the economic woes and experiencing lowered trust levels in our leaders. In the heat of Covid-19, …
Read More »T2021 W/C: With unselective six-seeking, Pollard’s ‘Fab Four’ musketeers can go wrong—Best’s WI dream team
Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan. Remember them? One for all and all for one? French figments of Alexandre Dumas’ fertile 19th Century imagination. How many of us have seen ourselves in these swashbuckling heroes? Sixty thousand Frenchmen cannot be wrong, right? Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell. …
Read More »Pull up a chair, Wired868’s Premier League Fantasy Football challenge is here!
Yuh ent fed up bad talk the coach? Are you ready to show what YOU know about football? Wired868 now offers Trinidad and Tobago’s England Premier League football fans the chance to win more than just bragging rights with its own Fantasy Football challenge, which is a subset of the …
Read More »Dear Editor: Why upgrade NP gas stations with taxpayers’ money then sell to private owners?
“[…] Is it that we are spending tens of millions of the people’s money to upgrade facilities only to then hand these facilities over to private owners? “With the end of subsidisation of fuel prices coupled with the handover of the people’s assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to …
Read More »Soca Warriors remain 103rd in world and 11th in Concacaf, for sixth straight cycle
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team remain 103rd in the world and 11th in Concacaf for the sixth straight cycle, according to the latest Fifa ranking today. The Fifa ranking is based on results in full international matches, while a weighting system designates different marks depending on if …
Read More »Jordan sets 22 August deadline for NLCL U-19 competition, despite outstanding approvals
The Next Level Consulting Limited (NLCL) U-19 Community Invitational Tournament 2021 has vowed to launch its second season on 18 December, pending approvals from the Ministry of Health, chief medical officer Dr Rosham Parasram, the Ministry of Sport and Community Development and the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), which …
Read More »Two returning nationals test positive for Delta variant; unvaccinated travellers came from USA and Mexico
Trinidad and Tobago has its first two confirmed cases of the Covid-19 Delta variant. The Ministry of Health revealed that both patients are recently returned nationals, who entered the country on the back of negative PCR tests—before testing positive while in state-supervised quarantine. Both are unvaccinated. At present, both persons …
Read More »Lewis: ‘It will all pan out in the end’; TTOC president hails ‘awesome’ Olympic effort, defends ‘10golds24’ target
Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Brian Lewis has hailed the ‘awesome’ effort of the Team TTO athletes, despite their failure to medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Trinidad and Tobago have not failed to climb the podium since the 1992 Barcelona Games—almost two decades ago—while, according to a TTOC …
Read More »Afra: What’s Mayor Martinez hiding behind the scenes in Nelson Mandela Park affair?
I wish to present in this article a summary of my main points on the proposed ‘revitalisation’ of the Nelson Mandela Park (formerly King George V Park or, before that, Pompeii Savannah) in west Port of Spain. Some spaces are of such significance that they should be altered only after …
Read More »Cummings: I’m hungrier than ever! ‘Ball Pest’ discusses his health, the Soca Warriors and the Pro League’s problem
“[…] Years ago, there were three rounds [in the Pro League] plus a cup and a Reserve League. Now it is two rounds with eight or nine teams and no cup, with no Reserve League. “[…] The younger players are not getting to play enough football anymore. Judah Garcia played …
Read More »St Bernard: Why New York City boasts of ‘the now generation of pan’
A couple months ago, Yvette Rennie, the president of J’Ouvert City International in New York City, hired me to do a video documentary with some prominent people involved in the NYC steel pan movement. She wanted to focus on the economic development of steel pan in NYC. The interviewees included …
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