Sixteen-year-old Orielle Martin gave Trinidad and Tobago football fans another glimpse of her rare talent yesterday as the Women’s National Under-17 Team kicked off their Concacaf Women’s U-17 qualifying campaign with a 5-0 win over the United States Virgin Islands at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Martin led her …

We begin 2025 with the shocking reports of a teen being murdered by his ‘best friend’. The reality that gangs are everywhere causes us to pause. We are struggling to get food on our tables. Life is closing in on us. We are living in grim times. We can no longer …

The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-17 Team start their Fifa 2025 U-17 Women’s World Cup campaign tomorrow against the US Virgin Islands from 8pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The fixture is the second match of a Group B doubleheader, with Honduras and Belize meeting from 5pm …

Trinidad and Tobago will be a player short for the 2025 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Qualifiers, which kicks off tomorrow in Trinidad—with Honduras, Belize and the United States Virgin Islands grouped together at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. All four nations announced 21-member squads to Concacaf roughly a week ago …

I intended to write an open letter to the chair of the San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporation, Richard Walcott. Initially, it was to ask what the municipal body can do about the posse of feral cats that has overtaken the area. When the street was overrun by dozens of free-range chickens …

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley (the PM) has evaded having his choice of Minister Stuart Young as successor to the leadership of the party and the country (or indeed any other person desiring such leadership) sent to a vote at a convention of the membership of the People’s National Movement …

The Republic Bank National Youth Football League (RBNYFL) has announced its participants for the 2025 season, with the number of competing clubs swollen from 124 teams in 2024 to a new high of 133 outfits. Tobago, whose number of participating teams rose from 13 to 22 clubs, is the only …

For the first time in the 10-year history of the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division, the champion school has been effectively stripped of its title. Today, the SSFL executive committee confirmed that its Arbitration Committee ruled against St Benedict’s College and upheld prior sanctions by the school body’s …

“[…] A close relative of mine presented an opportunity to start as a labourer. Over time, I worked my way up to my current position [as an industrial mechanic]. “[…] My biggest responsibility is ensuring that the steam boiler consistently maintains about 90 pounds of steam to be used in …

Scarborough Secondary are a Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division team for the first time, as they were one of three schools who clinched promotion on the last day of the 2024 SSFL Big Five competition today. Scarborough needed a point at the St Mary’s Recreation Ground in Freeport …

Today, we face a myriad of problems. It seems as though there is a cascading chain of events that seeks to deaden our response. We do not finish dealing with one thing before another arises. How, then, will we run our country? How will we manage to survive? Which course …

Imagine that you could have every single thing your heart desires. No restrictions. Do you think you could envisage it all at once? I mean, do you believe that on any given day you know precisely what it would take to make you absolutely content? Unlikely, I’d say at first, …