The welter of negative stories in the Trinidad and Tobago media has left a bad impression on the country from an outsider’s perspective. In this particular case, the outsider is former Soca Warriors goalkeeper and Trinidad and Tobago 2006 World Cup standout, Shaka Hislop. Speaking on the final day of …

Former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan was a no-show while UNC Senators Wayne Sturge and Gerald Ramdeen refused to defend their own requisition, as a no confidence motion in Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) president Reginald Armour SC and vice-president Gerry Brooks came to a crushing defeat at a special …

It is not uncommon for people to hear statements like “but it is a free country,” “I can do what I want” or “I have a right to my opinion.” But, in Trinidad and Tobago, we have a myth of free speech. If we think we can speak truth to …

Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) president Reginald Armour SC and vice-president Gerry Brooks will need the support of their membership to keep their respective positions, as they attempt to stave off a vote of no confidence instigated by a faction that includes former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan SC …

Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team captain Kenwyne Jones will spend the next five months in the local Pro League, after the former England Premier League forward agreed terms with defending champions, Central FC. The 31 year old forward, who recently signed for new United States Major League Soccer (MLS) …

Currently, as has happened in the past, race talk has surfaced in the aftermath of a change of Government. Part of the problem is the widespread use and abuse of statutory corporations and so-called state enterprises as the vessels through which illegitimate or corrupt activity flows. When an election is …

If Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump is Sat Maharaj dipped in curry—and that is definitely a dish designed to induce bowel movement—then former president George W Bush is surely Dr Fuad Khan without a stethoscope. Simplicity is certainly not next to genius with those two. Let’s just say someone’s …

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams today failed in his bid to wrest the post of Caribbean Football Union (CFU) president from incumbent leader and Antigua and Barbuda FA general secretary, Gordon Derrick, in a regional football election in Miami, Florida. Derrick got 18 votes while John-Williams …

“It is a lonely life,” said Rio-bound Trinidad and Tobago international cyclist Njisane Phillip. “I am up at 6am and I’m out of the house at 7am. I’m on the track at 9am, I’m off the track at 12pm and I am back in the gym at 3pm. “I’m out …

Alana Abdool takes a closer, sympathetic look at Kelvin Baldeosingh’s controversial Trinidad Guardian column in our Letters to the Editor page: Dear brothers and sisters in Islam, I have a confession to make. And a warning to sound. Truth be told, Kevin Baldeosingh said atheists and white people are offended …

The only thing necessary for myths and mischief to be recorded as historical facts is for informed persons to say nothing. I liberally paraphrase Irish philosopher Edmund Burke’s injunction to responsible persons to speak out or act when tyranny threatens, to respond to one lie Sat Maharaj peddled when he …

Trinidad and Tobago’s Men’s Under-17 football team will start their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) campaign at home in September without the services of the man who trained then for the last 12 months. Ken Elie, who served as national youth coach on several prior occasions and was assistant to Hannibal Najjar with …