After a two and a half year drought, North East Stars returned to winners’ row last night with a 5-4 penalty shootout triumph over defending champions, DIRECTV W Connection, in the 2015 TTFA FA Trophy final at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. There were roughly 1,000 fans at the …
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Love’s diary: Missed you, baby
Budding author Raheema Sayyid-Andrews shares another powerful love story with Wired868: “I missed you,” he says. She has just stepped through the door and he meets her at the threshold and wraps his arms around her. Her face finds its place between his neck and shoulder and she breathes in his …
Read More »Panama school Warriors; but Hart savours individual successes
Trinidad and Tobago’s Russia 2018 World Cup charge started off with a baby step at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva last night as the “Soca Warriors” fell 1-0 to Panama in an international friendly affair. At the final whistle, Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo had not been stretched once. Trinidad …
Read More »Tammy Yates: How I became one of Canada’s top HIV advocates
Ever since I was an embryo in my mother’s womb, I knew that I wanted to work with the United Nations (UN) for three simple reasons. Firstly, I wanted to leave the world in a better way than I found it—cheesy, but still very true. Secondly, I wanted to travel …
Read More »Warriors kick off 2018 W/Cup preparations against Panama today
The “Soca Warriors” will officially start preparations for their Russia 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign today when they face the Panama senior international football team from 7 pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The Panamanian outfit, which is the fourth ranked team in CONCACAF, brought a full-strength squad …
Read More »Shocking Toppin: Tobago East MP molests Rowley family… And Charlotteville!
The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament was yesterday the scene of the most spectacularly unsuccessful revenge missions since a one-armed bounty hunter cornered “Tuco” in a bathtub in the classic western movie, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” “I see hate, I see bitterness, I see acrimony, I see animosity …
Read More »Party gone! Colm leads PNM conga line out of Parliament
It was the biggest and best coordinated mass evacuation of a Trinidad venue since Machel Montano finished singing “Like a Boss” at the 2015 Soca Monarch final. If the next General Election does not go as planned, PNM MP Colm Imbert could at least look forward to a future with …
Read More »Transparency International: T&T Police violated our civil liberties
Transparency International defines corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. This is a modern definition designed to reflect the multifarious facets of abuse of power. This line of reasoning is premised upon the idea that public official are trustees of the public good in respect of the powers …
Read More »Remembering Alloy Lequay: Cricket’s antidote to Jack Warner
As Austin Jack Warner was to Trinidad and Tobago football so was Alloy Remigus Lequay to Trinidad and Tobago cricket. The two men give the lie to the old adage that insists that politics and sport don’t mix. They do, they did—felicitously in the case of Lequay, who devoted his …
Read More »Fenwick’s back! Feisty Englishman makes shock return to Central FC
Call him the unsinkable Terry Fenwick. The former England World Cup defender left Trinidad and Tobago Pro League club, Central FC, last year for greener pastures with Belgium lower division club, CS Visé, and took three of Couva-based team’s best players with him. The Visé dream turned into a nightmare …
Read More »Live Wire notes: Police pull kyat tail; plus media vs media vs media…
Read slowly: The police are about to launch a police investigation into the actions of the police in conducting a nationwide exercise that used police officers to frustrate motorists and essentially bring Trinidad and Tobago to a standstill. The police top brass have asked for two weeks to find out …
Read More »Fixin’ T&T asks private sector to support policemen
Fixin’ T&T asks the T&T Chamber, AMCHAM, TTMA and DOMA to support the local police via an open letter: Dear Sir/Madam, FIXIN’ T&T both sympathises and empathises with members of the public who were inconvenienced yesterday; the lessons not taught to and exams not written by our nation’s children, the …
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