Did you see Monday evening’s World Cup programme or last week’s promo for it? The one in which ex-WI captain Darren Sammy matter-of-factly asserts that ‘West Indies are winning the World Cup’? I mean, really matter-of-factly. As if he were saying ‘The sun rises in the east.’ Promo and programme …

Iconic Trinidad and Tobago table tennis player Dexter St Louis passed away today in France, where he played professionally in Bordeaux. He was 51. A release from St Louis’ family, issued through attorney Matthew Gayle, said he died after ‘a short illness’ surrounded by his wife, Jeromaine Chung-St Louis and …

Trinidad and Tobago will face Canada in an international friendly on 10 June in Los Angeles, just eight days before their Concacaf Gold Cup opener against Panama in Minnesota. Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams suggested the fixture was a make-up game for the scrapped exhibition match …

“[Gordon Pierre’s] defamation was done maliciously and with the conscious intent to injure and destroy [Lasana Liburd] in his workplace and personal life,” stated Master of the Supreme Court Martha Alexander, in her 17-page judgment on 7 May 2019. “This court viewed the defendant’s defamatory action as actuated by malice, …

“The womb is the home of beginnings.” Leroy Clarke, 2019 What kind of beginnings did 3,777 of our citizens experience between 2014 and 2018? 3,777 young women had children for whom they were neither psychologically nor financially prepared to nurture. 3,777 people have been born of trauma in a society which …

Trincity Nationals, FC Ginga, FC Santa Rosa and Matura United came out smelling like roses on Saturday 11 May, as East Zone action in the Republic Bank Youth League (RBYL) continued apace at Constantine Park, Macoya. Trincity and Ginga advanced to the quarterfinal round in the Under-15 division with contrasting wins …

God understands suicide. There are seven stories about suicide in the Bible, including Samson, seen as victorious, killing more in death than in life and finding his way into the Hall of Fame (Hebrews 11). Suicide is a complicated story in the Bible. It is a short-circuiting of God’s plans …

A blistering anchor lane run by Machel Cedenio paced Trinidad and Tobago to their first ever gold return at the IAAF World Relays yesterday, as the twin island republic stunned defending champions, United States, to take gold at the 4×400 metre event in Yokohama, Japan. Deon Lendore, Jereem Richards and …

I was finishing last week’s column about the unrelenting grip in which murderous crime holds our country when I read our Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley’s plaintive cry: “What have we become?” Dr Rowley was mourning the reportedly gruesome murders of a life long Tobagonian friend and his wife of …

“In the context [of the police searches of homes in the Gulf View area, National Security Minister Stuart Young’s] words are, with respect, equivocal and misleading…” The following Letter to the Editor on recent warrantless searches by the Police Service was submitted to Wired868 by attorneys, Dr Emir Crowne, Matthew …

Shooting wars begin as culture wars and culture wars are initiated by ideas. So let’s for a minute set aside Uncle Sam’s amoral adventures in Venezuela; or not—because this issue is partly about what led to it in the first place. A few years ago Professor Merle Hodge wrote an …

“I hope this election coming up we vote that ‘clown’ out and vote in someone who can help uplift our football from this deplorable state it is in right now. “They could say whatever dey want about Mr Jack Warner; he did both bad and good. But under his guidance, …