Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace has promised to erase the local football body’s TT$50 million debt within three years, as he announced a kit deal with England-based supplier Avec Sport this morning. The TTFA and Avec Sport stated that the partnership is for four years with …
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Que Serrant, Serrant! T&T U-20s squeeze past Cayman Islands to book Round of 16 place
The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 Team are through to the Concacaf Championship Round of 16, after a 2-0 win over the Cayman Islands today—but it is probably not a game that head coach Richard Hood will enjoy reviewing. The Women Soca Warriors laboured for much of the game …
Read More »Media musings—Pt 2: Opinion, reporting and commentary; the reason I write
“If you believe only in facts and forget stories,” Cassandra Clare writes in Lord of Shadows, “your brain will live but your heart will die.” So here is a short story that illustrates, I think, how the brain keeps itself alive, serendipitously collecting its own facts. Green Corner, Port-of-Spain, circa …
Read More »Hood forced to freshen up U-20 squad; coach faces dilemma over Concacaf schedule
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 Team head coach Richard Hood will have the first test of his squad’s depth tomorrow afternoon, as he suggested at least three changes to the starting team that will face the Cayman Islands in their second Concacaf Championship affair. The young Women Soca Warriors …
Read More »Awesome Afiyah inspires as T&T set Concacaf records in 6-0 whipping of St Kitts
Trinidad and Tobago captain Afiyah Cornwall became the first player to score four times for the twin island republic in a Concacaf tournament, as the Women Soca Warriors opened their 2020 Under-20 World Cup qualifying campaign today with a 6-0 win over St Kitts and Nevis at the Estadio Panamericano …
Read More »Media musings: I tweet, therefore I am? Facts, truth and reader education
Lloyd Best used to say that Trinidad and Tobago is a country where people walk about with their heads empty. That may explain why, for so many of us Trinis, facts are sacred things. “Facts are facts,” India’s Jawaharlal Nehru once declared, “and they will not disappear on account of …
Read More »Tobago’s turn to party: Daly on Panorama’s Presidential delay and THA bacchanal
The late ‘De Fosto’ opened his 1993 Carnival song Is My Turn with words: “For too long I have been knocking on the door. Now I fed up, I don’t intend to knock no more. This time I going to break it down.” He then launched into ‘now is my …
Read More »Hood wary of St Kitts’ North American links, as T&T kick off U-20 campaign
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 Team head coach Richard Hood said his players will not underestimate St Kitts and Nevis, despite a lack of information on their first opponent for the Concacaf Under-20 Championship. The young Women Soca Warriors kick off their 2020 Under-20 World Cup qualifying campaign tomorrow …
Read More »“I’m tiny but mighty!” One on one with T&T women’s football star, Aaliyah Prince
“I was the only girl in the community playing football amongst the boys but they never looked at me differently… I had a lot of trophies from running but I was always so talented in football, so I decided to switch over.” Nineteen year old Aaliyah ‘Apples’ Prince stands at …
Read More »Dark meat to the world! Terri Lyons takes Calypso throne via Prince Harry’s abdication
Dr Hollis ‘Chalkdust’ Liverpool suggested that everything happening in Trinidad and Tobago and elsewhere pales in significance to the ongoing ‘Murder Frenzy’—be it the Law Association’s fight to remove Chief Justice Ivor Archie, or whoever putting ‘dog in the curry’. But, last night, the nine-time Calypso Monarch champion was wrong. …
Read More »Olliviera notches double as Defence Force hold off Cunupia to extend Pro League lead
Defence Force stretched their lead atop the Pro League standings by nine points yesterday evening, as they defeated table proppers Cunupia FC 2-1 at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Winger Darius Olliviera notched a second half double for the Army/Coast Guard combination, which was enough to secure the three …
Read More »PEA claims ignorance of reporter’s race before ‘half pint house negro’ slur, case heads to Tribunal
A case of racially-charged ‘offensive behaviour’ filed by TV6 journalist Kejan Haynes against then Progressive Empowerment Party (PEP) political leader Phillip Edward Alexander will be referred to a Tribunal for adjudication, after the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) rejected Alexander’s defence and a conciliatory meeting between the two parties failed to …
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