I wasn’t at last night’s Concacaf Men’s Under-17 Qualifiers game. I took it for granted that we would get past Barbados and the other Caribbean nations, so I was planning to go to the Mexico game only. I guessed wrong. But something I’ve been pointing to comes to the fore …

Just a few days after a rough friendly outing away to Lima, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago’s Under-17 Men’s football team got another gut punch last night, as they fell 1-0 to Barbados at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo in their opening Fifa Under-17 World Cup qualifier. With further group …

Randolph Boyce’s tenure as Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-17 Team head coach could only get better from here. It could not, surely, get any worse. After his first two international outings saw the young Soca Warriors concede 12 goals while scoring once, away to Peru, Boyce’s troops started their …

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Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) general secretary Azaad Khan passed away this morning. Khan, 71, had been ailing for some time and could not perform his duties during the 2025 season, due to poor health. A former Malick Secondary teacher, Khan was manager during the school’s heyday in the late …

Scarborough Secondary have appealed against the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Disciplinary Committee’s decision to overturn their 1-0 win over San Juan North Secondary and instead give the East Zone school a win by three clear goals. The Disciplinary Committee’s ruling effectively relegated Scarborough to the Championship Division, just a …

Trinidad and Tobago’s dream of qualifying for the Morocco 2026 Fifa U-17 Women’s World Cup was extinguished in just three games, as the young Women Soca Warriors were routed 7-0 by El Salvador in their final Concacaf Qualifier today at the Stadion Rignaal ‘Jean’ Francisca in Willemstad, Curaçao. The result …

My father considered music of any kind to be unpleasant noise. In his later years, when he became a bible-toting Witness, he listened to some form of gospel. But as children, we were not allowed access for a long time. He was rough about it. I came to really hear …

Carnival is supposed to be joy. It is colour and music and rhythm and release. It is sweat on skin, feathers in motion and the collective permission to forget who we are for a moment. Carnival, we say, is culture. Carnival is freedom. Carnival is who we are. And yet, …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-17 Team completed their two-match friendly series with Peru today, with a 6-1 loss in Lima. The games were preparation for the Concacaf U-17 Qualifiers, which start on Tuesday 3 February with Trinidad and Tobago hosting Group F at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in …

The Secondary School Football League (SSFL) Disciplinary Committee’s ruling to penalise Scarborough Secondary for fielding sixth form student Johan Elliot in their final Premier Division fixture against San Juan North Secondary left the Tobago school distraught for multiple reasons. First, it spoiled a remarkable comeback. When Scarborough Secondary replaced head …