MOST OF US ARE EMANCIPATED ALREADY. UNFORTUNATELY. No, I haven’t gone completely mad. I just thought I’d try to grab your attention and so make you understand the importance of understanding the power words have. Today is Emancipation Day when we celebrate the end of the enslavement of African people. …
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July 1990 extra: An ex-Jamaat elder speaks out; how the shot was called on me
“I have earned the right to speak because of my commitment to Islam and because of the blood that gushed forth from me because of speaking out and being critical. “I speak on the authority of the four 357 magnum bullets from the gun that Mark Guerra gave to Quincy …
Read More »Joint CLICO bailout statement: The more we know, the more we know we don’t know!
“After eight years and a half of expensive governmental control, the population is now being told that the government did not know what was being done or how taxpayers’ monies were spent while government appointees were ‘in the saddle.’ “What other surprises remain hidden?” The following joint media statement on …
Read More »Joevin agrees move to Germany second division; Frings: He’s an absolute favourite!
Trinidad and Tobago international football star Joevin Jones will play his football in Germany from January 2018, after the Seattle Sounders wing- back agreed a move to second tier outfit, SV Darmstadt 98, last week. The 25-year-old Jones, who is the Soca Warriors’ joint highest scorer in the 2018 World …
Read More »Daly Bread: Marcia’s retort, contrasting responses from AG/JLSC and Big 5’s Ode to Panorama
One of the pillars of the administration of justice is the principle that open justice is fundamental to the rule of law and democratic accountability. That principle reaches its highest expression in judicial review cases and constitutional motions. The whole purpose of such cases is to put the processes by …
Read More »Pro League scores: “Lobo” scores but D/Force clobber Connection, Sando hold Central
Early Pro League leaders W Connection ended their seventh match week in second place after a shock 4-1 loss to Defence Force yesterday at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Pre-season signing Marcus “Lobo” Joseph grabbed his joint League high fourth goal this season for Connection to pull him level …
Read More »Cafu leads international stars for ‘Laventille Nights’ exhibition match on Monday
Former Brazil World Cup winning captain Cafu will lead an array of local and global international football standouts in an exhibition match at Soogrim Trace Recreation Ground on Monday evening as part of the “Laventille Nights” series. The series is an initiative led by Tony Lee and I95.5FM while the …
Read More »Is TTPS “extorting” public with exaggerated figures at events?! Ex-MoNS blows whistle
“Nowhere in the world, in any business, [does] the provider of a service demand how [many officials] should be hired and the host cannot verify if the officials he hired even arrived. “The host also cannot advise the provider of what they should be doing [at the venue] as the …
Read More »Pro League scores: Froggy strikes against Police FC as N/East Stars leapfrog Connection
Former Trinidad and Tobago National Under-20 Team winger Akeem “Froggy” Garcia continued his revival—after a long term knee injury threatened to derail his promising career—with the winning goal at the Arima Velodrome last night as North East Stars edged Police FC 3-2 in 2017 Pro League action. Garcia’s item, which …
Read More »MEDIA MONITOR: Oh mih Guardian! End of buy, buy; start of bye, bye
The end is beginning. Lest you think that I should make myself a proper doomsday THE END IS NIGH placard and go and stand under Cipriani Statue so that my friends can laugh me out of town, let me say that I refer not to the end of the world …
Read More »Warriors to reconvene on 14 August; TTFA fails to land Emancipation Day friendly
Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team head coach Dennis Lawrence said his squad will reconvene on 14 August to prepare for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Honduras and Panama on 1 and 5 September respectively. It means, almost certainly, that the Soca Warriors have failed to land an Emancipation …
Read More »Yasinism—Part 2: The unravelling: Pyrrhic victory, greed, disillusionment and corruption of power
1990: A JAMAAT CHILD REMEMBERS—Part 2 Today marks the 27th anniversary of, in the splendid words of David Rudder, the night of the day when the prophets died” because “a man opened a door and showed us our other side.” To mark the occasion, Wired868 exclusively presents the second installment of a …
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