The Ministry of Health has vetoed the West Indies Cricket Board’s attempt to host South Africa in Trinidad next month, with chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram credited with the final word. The two cricket nations are scheduled to face each other in two Tests and five Twenty20 internationals and …
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Konstin hails ‘amazing’ accomplishment of T&T Futsal Team, despite four defeats in as many games
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Futsal Team head coach Constantine Konstin credited his outfit for an ‘amazing’ showing after their feisty clash with hosts Guatemala last night, which the twin island republic lost 4-3. The defeat meant the Soca Warriors were eliminated after just two matches, as they lost their …
Read More »Dear Editor: For the players’ sake, TTFA must save futsal from self-appointed president Geoffrey Edwards
“[…] Educators refer to ‘recency and frequency’ as part of the learning process, and when you look at our players, they all possess tremendous individual skill. It follows therefore that the more they play futsal, the more adept at it they will become. “A national futsal league, not necessarily a …
Read More »Ché screamer temporarily stuns hosts before Guatemala quell T&T’s futsal revolution
Trinidad and Tobago were eliminated from the 2021 Concacaf Futsal Championship last night after two successive group stage defeats against the Dominican Republic (6-2) and Guatemala (4-3) respectively. But the Soca Warriors can claim to have left their mark in the confederation’s showcase tournament regardless, after an extraordinary goal from …
Read More »B&B Ep 7: Shaka Hislop on TTFA’s Hadad-led normalisation committee
Iconic former Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper and ESPN analyst Shaka Hislop joins the Burdie and Barney Show for a discussion on the stewardship of the Robert Hadad-led normalisation committee and the current state of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). Subscribe for free to the Burdie and Barney Show …
Read More »Dominican Rep thump T&T 6-2 in Futsal opener, Konstin’s team face early exit
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Futsal Team face an early end to their 2021 Fifa Futsal World Cup dreams as the Soca Warriors lost 6-2 to the Dominican Republic last night in Concacaf Championship action in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The Warriors face Guatemala tonight but are unlikely to find …
Read More »Six more deaths as MoH confirms 235 more infections; 278 hospital beds left
Trinidad and Tobago suffered six more deaths due to Covid-19 over the last 24 hours, with another 235 confirmed infections and 24 more hospital spaces taken up. The County Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) offices, as always, will determine how many of the newly infected persons require hospitalisation, based initially …
Read More »Truce! Hadad skips coaches meeting but NC members promise response in four days
Normalisation committee chairman and de facto Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) boss Robert Hadad was a no-show yesterday as the Fifa-appointed body hosted officials from the National Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (NFCTT), in a crucial virtual meeting. NFCTT interim president Jefferson George and executive member Angus Eve …
Read More »Hospitals just 10 days from being overrun; street food and non-essential retail face imminent shutdown
“We want you not to come out if it isn’t absolutely essential,” said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, “because then you become a part of the problem… Stay at home!” Trinidad and Tobago are set for another series of measures meant to keep citizens at home, in an effort to …
Read More »‘Workers became more laid-back’: Day in Life of a standards officer
“[…] I had set goals for the south division—one of which was that our service would be excellent so that no one would complain about us. “I have this goal in my head; but when they decided to station all workers closer to home, the workers became more laid-back. Sometimes …
Read More »Barney’s bible: Fixing T&T football—standard curriculum, ‘shadow teams’ and new SSFL age group
Leave the egos at the door and instead bring bags and bags of patience. Fixing our football will require much more time than it took to drive it down to its current position. For too long, we have attempted to hold conversations in which each leader tried to look like …
Read More »Daly Bread: Evading reality and the unsafe pathway to our doorsteps
Many of us know that the government is prevaricating and attempting to evade responsibility for what the population generally knows to be realities in plain sight, for example porous borders persistently penetrated by persons fleeing from Venezuela. The condonation of ‘society’ events, which were held—contrary to ministerial and other exhortations—to …
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