The Pro League will kick off without its marquee Trinidad and Tobago international players as Soca Warriors head coach Dennis Lawrence got the green light to take a home-based squad to Colorado on 23 May to prepare for next month’s 2018 World Cup qualifier away to the United States. The …

Central FC and San Juan Jabloteh started their respective 2017 Caribbean Club Championship final group stage campaigns with comfortable wins over Antigua’s Grenades FC and Haiti’s Racing Club FC respectively at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain last night. Central conceded first but roared back to win 3-1 …

My deceased mother, Celia, had a number of priceless expressions.  Many of them applied to persons who got “too big for their boots.” Getting too big for your own boots could be a gradual process. When it happened overnight she discerned that it was an immediate attack of “position-itis”—a condition …

“The Constitution does […] permit laws to infringe constitutionally protected rights. Such laws must be ‘reasonably justifiable’ and passed with a special majority… “The Property Tax Act, however, was passed with a simple majority. It cannot benefit from this Constitutional exception.” The following Letter to the Editor regarding the legality of the …

“I feel great satisfaction when I get difficult applications approved for customers who are in tough situations and really need the help. I had a client who brought a market bag filled with provision and also her whole family to introduce them to me after. She was so happy.” Wired868 …

The statement issued on Tuesday by the JLSC is little more than a confession that it failed to do independent due diligence of its own and was duped as a consequence. This is obvious from the core defence of the JLSC that: Reasonable due diligence is satisfied by seeking an assurance that …

Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga  and dashing South Africa opener Hershelle Gibbs are among a host of stars of yesteryear who will don cricket gear once again and take to the pitch tomorrow evening for the opening of the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium in Tarouba. Former West Indies …

Central FC will attempt to become the first club in Caribbean history to win three successive regional titles when the final round of the Caribbean Club Championships gets going on Sunday 14 May. And the “Couva Sharks” will seek to do so with possibly up to a dozen players who could …

“The disproportionate prosecution of working class criminals ultimately serves to maintain ruling-class power and to reinforce ruling class ideology—thus performing ‘ideological functions’ for the ruling class.” Orson Rogers considers potential flaws in the way that Trinidad and Tobago deals with crime: As an armchair crime watcher and based on considerable …

Hear ye, hear ye, O people of the babagreen—I cyar really say “grassroots” no more since in most places the grass cut and covered over with Bestcrete or pitch. Anyway, leh mih make mih point. The point is that ting happening and, Sherma Wilson, forgive me for calling your name …

Kick off! Wired868 captures Republic Bank National Youth League (RBNYL) action at Constantine Park, Macoya on 6 May 2017: More from Wired868 RBNYFL 25: QPCC take U-20 title; Pro Series, B/Blasters, Trendsetter scoop up crowns QPCC, Trendsetter Hawks, Ball Blasters Youth Academy and Pro Series snagged a trophy apiece as …

“The Media, at least the traditional mainstream part of it, is not a clear glass window, giving an unobstructed view into the society; it is rather, a lens. It can serve to focus and direct public attention to specific areas of national life and equally, to obscure or obfuscate other …