Kieron “Bo” Edwards is the new president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). Edwards, the Eastern Football Association (EFATT) president, was elected with 38 from a possible 57 votes—66 percent of the electorate—after a 100% turnout of the TTFA membership today. He will now serve a four-year term …
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Wharfe vs Edwards; Wired868 looks at upcoming TTFA elections
“Pick your poison…” A football stakeholder who will vote at Saturday’s Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) general election summarised their perceived options in three words. For the first time in four years, the TTFA will start next week with an elected official in charge. But, based on a few …
Read More »Early Bird: Can Minister Marvin punch above his weight in wasteful WASA?
“What’s really going on with this WASA water tank?” Bobby inquired, in the middle of our walk last Wednesday morning. In the area to the west of the tank, there was heavy machinery, a tractor and a front-end loader. I know that put Bobby’s mind at ease. He is a …
Read More »RBNYFL 24: Photo finish for East U-14 title race; World Class coach claims youth football success formula
World Class Soccer Clinic and the Arima Araucans Academy are in a neck-and-neck battle to capture the East Zone Under-14 crown, after match day six (the penultimate round) in the Republic Bank National Youth Football League (RBNYFL). At the Republic Bank Sports Ground in Barataria on Saturday, World Class defeated …
Read More »Daly Bread: Celebration of life—toast to Dumas, de la Bastide and Brown
It is 22 years to the day that my very first column appeared in the Sunday Express newspaper. It has done so every Sunday since, save and except odd days when I let my caring editors know in advance that I will not submit a column on a particular weekend. …
Read More »Noble: Battling for our nation’s soul—T&T cannot continue like this
Each day, we are assaulted with new stories about our crime situation. It appears that the front pages of our daily newspaper will soon be unable to shock us. We are growing numb to the suffering spread across the land. Everywhere we turn, we are confronted by violence. Stunning pictures …
Read More »Vaneisa: Mancrab and the river—man’s struggle against time
A conversation about imagining our future planet raised a jumble of issues for me. I could grasp the substantive points being made by the 30-year-old, but many of them had not occurred to me before. It seemed that it might be a world where basic survival would define all activities. …
Read More »Jaric Titans leave 11-year-old boy in London; High Commission arranging travel docs
Jaric Titans managing director and head coach Brian Browne finally led his travelling party of roughly 90 persons back to Tobago from the Manchester International Easter Cup today, via a flight from the London Gatwick Airport. But they will be short of one child when they hit the tarmac at …
Read More »EPL blackout set for court; CSport accuses Digicel and Flow of “anti-competitive” behaviour over tv rights
The Verticast Media Group yesterday claimed to have filed an “anti-competitive lawsuit” against Digicel (Jamaica) Limited and Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited and Cable and Wireless Jamaica Limited (subsidiaries of Liberty Latin America) in the Jamaica Supreme Court. Liberty Latin America operates the Flow network in the Caribbean. The alleged lawsuit …
Read More »TTFA confirm electoral candidates; green light for Teams Edwards and Wharfe
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has confirmed its list of candidates for the Saturday 13 April Extraordinary Congress, which will see a new president and executive committee elected. All 18 persons who chose to run for office—led by presidential candidates Kieron Edwards and Colin Wharfe—were cleared to do …
Read More »Remembering Teacher Percy and our journey into education
Bring back the old-time days… Do you remember the primary school days when we sat in the dusty school yard under the tambrand, tree, the downs tree, the immortelle tree, the padoo tree, or whatever tree that was in the yard while teacher Percy preached hellfire and brimstone and brought …
Read More »Noble: Good Friday trials—compromised leaders don’t recognise their power
We tend to centre the Easter weekend observances on the Resurrection in our modern-day society. We skip past Good Friday—but there would be no Easter without Good Friday. We must face Good Friday’s trials and darkness before we can appreciate the dawn of the Resurrection. The events of Good Friday …
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