The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team inflicted a historic 5-1 whipping on neighbours, Guyana, last night to advance to the CONCACAF 2016 Olympic qualifying series semifinal round on Friday. It was Trinidad and Tobago’s joint largest margin of victory in a CONCACAF women’s tournament, after a 6-2 win against …
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Insp Alexander wets Alleyne: Lawman arrests TV rival on taxpayer’s time
What should have been a police investigation into a domestic violence matter in Chaguanas this morning turned into a cocolooks measuring competition between rival television hosts, Inspector Alexander and Ian Alleyne. And, to summarise, Alleyne ended up flushed, begging for mercy and getting treatment for a sore hand. While the …
Read More »Media misleads public again on Tim Kee; Live Wire demands their resignation
The following is the actual excerpt from an an interview with Raymond Tim Kee on Sky 99.5 FM, just after lunch today: Interviewer Jessie-May Ventour: Mr Tim Kee, at the 12 o clock news we found out that you are still the mayor of Port of Spain, that you have …
Read More »Sparta?! Ha-ooh! Battle lines drawn as Tim Kee finally calls emergency meeting
Franklin Khan: A thousand armies of the PNM empire will descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun! Raymond Tim Kee: Then we will fight in the shade. Well, Mr Live Wire paraphrased slightly but it appears to be time for a royal battle. Four days later than …
Read More »Anatomy of a political suicide: Mr Live Wire, Tim Kee… and the Easter Bunny
It’s been a tumultuous weekend for Trinidad and Tobago, as two of the country’s larger than life characters appear to be on a collision course, after a startling public statement, subsequent inflation of egos and gathering of defiant supporters as well as the potential for a legal challenge. But enough …
Read More »Durity and Belgrave double up as Army move within one win of glory
Defence Force FC are now one win away from lifting the CNG National Super League (NSL) Premiership Division title after defeating WASA FC by a 4-2 margin yesterday in a thrilling encounter at WASA’s St Joseph compound. The Super League’s Army/Coast Guard combination sits atop the Premiership standings with 63 points …
Read More »Canada clobber Women Warriors; but Hood promises semis spot for T&T
The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team got an ice cold reality check in Houston yesterday evening, as they were clobbered 6-0 by Canada in a CONCACAF 2016 Rio Olympic qualifying fixture at the BBVA Compass Stadium. At kick off, Canada and the “Women Soca Warriors” had three points …
Read More »Reaching across the divide: examining a culture of violence to women
Another woman is killed. Flung to the top of a mountain of murdered women so high her gold bikini lights up the sky. Broken body upon broken body, raining red waterfalls upon us. Down the streets, across the land, inside our homes and into our lives. Violence unrelenting, pain unrelieved, …
Read More »Divided masquerade: Trinidad Carnival is increasingly a “minority sport”
Two of my previous reviews of Carnival unequivocally set out issues within the festival that are troubling, particularly if Government is to continue funding the festival at the significant levels that it does. Last year’s review The minority sport of Carnival, referred to “the obvious acceleration of Carnival’s decline into …
Read More »Tim Kee: I won’t be crucified; beleaguered POS Mayor may fight for his job
Port of Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee has apparently vowed not to allow himself to be crucified in a statement posted on the Facebook page of his wife, Natasha Babwah. Tim Kee, who is also the PNM treasurer and the former Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president, promised to …
Read More »W/Warriors hunt upset against Canada in key Olympic qualifier
The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team can take a massive step towards the Rio 2016 Olympic Games tomorrow, as they tackle Canada in a key Group B affair from 5 pm at the BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas. A triumph for the “Women Soca Warriors”, after their …
Read More »Roffey rear-ends Express; Tim Kee debate goes bottom up
Saturday 13 February 2016 would go down in Trinidad and Tobago media history. Or at least it should. Finally, the One Caribbean Media (OCM) group, which includes the Trinidad Express newspaper and TV6, has chanced across an image deemed so graphic that it could not, in good conscience, share it …
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