I arrived 20 minutes prior to kick off at the Estadio Centroamericano in Mayaguez to a populated parking lot with a surprising stream of fans in red, white and blue. The Puerto Rican Football Federation president Ivan Rivera stated on 15 March that the game would be played behind closed …
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Dear Editor: New NCRHA tents prevent the mixing of Covid and non-Covid patients
“[…] Our objective was to effectively set up an alternative system where we would be able to assure patient and staff safety in light of Covid-19 and also assure consistent service …” The following was submitted to Wired868 by the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA): According to the chief …
Read More »Dear Editor: We must all applaud the members of the Spiritual Baptist faith!
‘[…] Today, all the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago need to applaud the members of the Spiritual Baptist community—for their struggles and the achievement of their liberation is, in fact, an achievement that we all benefit from …’ The following Letter to the Editor commemorating Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day was …
Read More »Dear Editor: Arimians Maxie and Mary were ‘sterling examples of human decency’
“[…] The deaths of Maxie Assee and Mary Trotman saw an outpouring of love and appreciation to two outstanding Arimians who dedicated their lives to the promotion and development of young people, and to the entire community of Arima. “These unlettered heroes were sterling examples of human decency, working for …
Read More »Dr Hinds: Rising Covid-19 cases coincide with relaxing regulations for sports
At the Ministry of Health’s virtual media conference, the technical director of the epidemiology division, Dr Avery Hinds, seemed to link the rise in new cases to recent changes to the public health ordinances relating to group sports. “The overall increase did begin approximately two weeks after one of the …
Read More »Fenwick: ‘We’re in transition from the oldest squad in world football’; Wired868 fact-checks coach
“The way I am looking at this, it’s a point away from home against a very good side,” said Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick, when a Puerto Rican reporter asked how he felt about a draw in Mayaguez yesterday evening—a result that meant the …
Read More »Look Loy: Thank God for Frenderup; T&T need multiple improvements—plus ‘Froggy’ and Rampersad
“[…] Is the selection [of defenders] based on a physical prototype preferred by coach Terry Fenwick—tall, big and strong? I ask because for the third match now we saw Neveal Hackshaw, who is known as a defensive midfielder and now plays central defence for his club, appearing as the left …
Read More »Joevin strikes first but Puerto Rico tie T&T 1-1, Warriors trail St Kitts by two points
Trinidad and Tobago will need to come from behind to advance from their Concacaf preliminary group, after dropping two points today in a 1-1 draw away to Puerto Rico at the Mayaguez Athletics Stadium in Mayaguez. Flanker Joevin Jones got the opening goal in the 55th minute, only for the …
Read More »Skerritt v Sanasie postponed, as Barbados and Guyana boards fail to attend CWI AGM
The 2021 Cricket West Indies (CWI) annual general meeting, which includes the election of a president and vice-president, was adjourned today due, remarkably, to the body’s failure to reach a quorum in its virtual meeting. The CWI Articles of Association stipulate that nine representatives of full member bodies must be …
Read More »Harper, Hope, Holder, Brathwaite, Blackwood, Bonner, Bravo, the baby and the bathwater
Kraigg Brathwaite’s eighth-ranked West Indies now look more likely to go on to lose the series against seventh-rated Dimuth Karunaratne’s Sri Lanka than to win it. And whether or not they do, some serious questions have to be asked of lead selector Roger Harper and his panel. And answered, one …
Read More »Daly Bread: Jab Zeneca tun’ ol’ mas; how the gov’t botched its ‘vaccine roll-out’
It is now clear that the government was vainglorious in suggesting it had a definite, phased Covid-19 vaccination programme. It used the gift of vaccines, which it so ungraciously accepted from Barbados, to mamaguy us. The extent of the mamaguy was underlined when a television station ran again last week …
Read More »West Indian winning, winners and madness of persistent perversity; Best changes for 2nd Test
A winning team. You could safely describe Clive Lloyd’s late Seventies and early Eighties West Indies team thus. Perhaps the tag is also applicable to Vivian Richards’ 1980/90s team which indisputably had what their skipper called ‘the winning habit’. A team that won. That tag befits Kraigg Brathwaite’s second-string side …
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