“[…] Trinidad and Tobago football is underperforming not due to lack of talent, but because of fragmented systems, weak development pathways, and inconsistent leadership. “The goal to success is to create a clear, sustainable pipeline from youth to senior national teams, supported by modern coaching, sport science, and consistent national …

The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team relinquished their dream of appearing at the Brazil 2027 Fifa Women’s World Cup last night in Port of Spain, as they fell 2-0 to El Salvador in their closing Group F affair at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. The Women Soca Warriors needed …

Trinidad and Tobago is just 180 minutes away from a place at the Brazil 2027 Fifa Women’s World Cup. On Friday, the Women’s National Senior Team face El Salvador from 6pm in a virtual knock-out contest at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. The Women Soca Warriors need …

Yes, I personally hate the term “first world” but it drives the point home emphatically in this instance. Trinidad and Tobago has always had a pattern of importing first world style without having the first world substance to back it up. We pave over mangroves and build skyscrapers without proper …

A recent comment from a visiting sailor has stayed with me in a way that is both embarrassing and deeply concerning. He shared that as he approached Trinidad by sea, he did not need a map to know where he was. The number of plastic bottles floating in our waters …

Controversial Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) administrator Laurence Seepersad should have resigned his post in shame, according to Scarborough Secondary representative and school teacher Salisha James, after Seepersad’s alleged misdirection led to sanctions and, ultimately, relegation from the Premier Division for the Tobago school. Instead, Seepersad has risen, unopposed, to …

Before international matches begin, it has become customary to play the national anthems of the teams. It wasn’t always so. In fact, that helped the West Indies cricket team avoid the dilemma of finding a song that represented its constituents fairly. Ours was (and still is) the only multi-national Test …

We trust Google more than doctors. And it is costing us. We are living in the most medically advanced time in human history. Unfortunately, trust in medicine has never felt more fragile. It has worsened since Covid. We can map the human genome. We can replace failing organs. We can …

“[…] In his 1971 book The Mechanics of Independence, ANR Robinson wrote that: ‘As financial rewards are lower in the less developed country, the decisive factor of keeping its skilled people from emigrating are likely to be career opportunity and job satisfaction.’ “Simply put, if we do not value our …

Talented box-to-box midfielder Asha James has rejoined the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team for next Friday’s closing Group F contest against El Salvador at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. The Women Soca Warriors need a win to qualify for the 2026 Concacaf W Championship and …

The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) executive committee has abandoned four outstanding games from the 2025 season, with a significant impact on the respective divisions. The abandoned matches are: the Boys U-14 and U-16 National finals (both involving Naparima College and Signal Hill Secondary); the Girls Big Five final between …

“[…] It was a bit of a slap in the face. Knowing the work we put in to take that team to where we did, what we had to go through to get the players to join, the change in the dressing room, and the culture of the football. “[…] …