Trinidad and Tobago will return to the Estadio Rommel Fernandez in Panama City on 8 January 2016 for a decisive 2016 Copa America Centenario play off clash with regional neighbours, Haiti. The winner will advance automatically to the special centennial South American championship, which will be staged in the United …
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Feisty Carapichaima and Speyside relegated on SSFL final day
Despite a valiant performance, Carapichaima East Secondary could not avoid the dreaded drop from the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division yesterday, as they succumbed to a 3-2 defeat at the feet of St Augustine Secondary on home soil. The “Caps” schoolboys were not the only ones shown the …
Read More »FIFA reject Nakhid candidacy; ex-T&T star claims “political sabotage”
Former Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain David Nakhid’s attempt to challenge for the FIFA presidency appeared to have ended today in controversial fashion, as his candidacy was invalidated by a spoilt nomination from the US Virgin Islands (USVI). A FIFA spokesman confirmed that Nakhid’s nomination was declared invalid. …
Read More »Petrotrin sends NSL KO final warning to Guaya
“Guaya will have to play the game of their lives next week to beat us and walk away with the $100,000,” warned Petrotrin Palo Seco head coach Dexter Cyrus at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva Sunday. Cyrus was putting Guaya United F.C. on notice that his side, which had …
Read More »Police under fire: Raffique blazes local officers for unsolved murders
With crime, especially murder, being the number one issue on the national agenda for more than two decades, the police cannot escape being targeted as the most blameworthy for the barrels of blood in which the nation is swirling. In the most recent sensational case, the Tobago double-murder, the police …
Read More »Déjà vu: Naps stop Shiva to clinch 2nd SSFL Premier Division title
“North-South-East-West, Naparima is the best!” Naparima College students and supporters were in good voice yesterday as their team retained its SSFL Premier Division championship with the easiest of 1-0 victories over challengers Shiva Boys Hindu College at the Ato Boldon Stadium. For the second straight season, Naps have secured the …
Read More »Sunity: Why old information culture survives; and new GISL won’t work
Under the deluge of data and detail, Trinidad and Tobago remains a society run by the old privilege of “contact” with power rather than the individual’s right to information. Know the right person and all is yours; demand your right to know and chances are you will hit the wall …
Read More »The elder’s gesture: Daly tackles State’s exorbitant legal fees and POS wrecking
Owing to my commitment to take part in Raoul Pantin’s play Hatuey I was unable to write a column last Sunday. I was therefore unable to make timely comment on the contentious Budget debate and the feeding trough for favoured lawyers exposed in the course of that debate. Happily the …
Read More »Goliaths keep David at bay: Central and Connection cruise into FCB Cup final
It will be 2015 Couva Clásico II in next Friday’s First Citizens Cup final at the Ato Boldon Stadium. Last night at the same venue Bankers Central FC and Direc TV W Connection thumped their semi-final opponents to earn their shot at the rich payday. Connection outplayed and dominated a …
Read More »NSL final 4: Guaya, Phoenix, Prisons and Petrotrin rumble in Couva tomorrow
The CNG National Super League Knock Out competition will kick off its semi-final round tomorrow at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva with just Guaya United, Prisons FC, Tobago FC Phoenix 1976 and Petrotrin Palo Seco left from 25 teams in the Premiership and Championship Divisions. At stake is a …
Read More »Politics abusing children: has T&T always been a dark, violent place?
A homemade video of a child being abused and forced to drink milk is yet another window opened into the culture of violence in T&T. You can be sure that had the perpetrator and amateur filmmaker known that police would be searching for them, they would not have uploaded that …
Read More »Wired868 introduces the TTFA’s five presidential aspirants
Five persons have declared their candidacy for the post of Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president, although it might not be until November 19 that the football fraternity and the hopefuls know who they are for sure. W Connection president David John-Williams, Veteran Footballers Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago …
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