Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 Team head coach Brian Haynes announced his 21-man squad for Concacaf Under-20 Championship qualifying action today, with 11 players graduating from the previous under-17 team. Midfielders Lindell Sween, Jeremiah Cateau, and Josiah Ochoa, flankers Derrel “Zoom Zoom” Garcia, Rio Cardines, and Malachi Webb, forwards …

Made In La Brea and Caledonia AIA will clash in a playoff at the Mahaica Sporting Complex in Point Fortin from 5.45pm on Thursday 15 February to determine the final quarterfinal team in the 2023-24 NLCL U19 Community Cup tournament. Both teams finished fourth in their respective groups on Carnival …

Canada will travel to Trinidad on Friday for Concacaf Under-20 Championship qualifying action with six players who participated at the 2023 Fifa Under-17 World Cup. Only one team will advance from Group D, which includes hosts Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica. And, although TTFA technical …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) will hold its first presidential election in over four years on Saturday 13 April 2024, according to correspondence from the Robert Hadad-led Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee. The suggested date was proposed to members two weeks ago but is now confirmed by the Bureau of …

And the 2024 Calypso Monarch crown goes to: Argentina’s Lionel Messi! Who mother can’t believe that one, eh? Well, actually the TUCO judges had to confine their choice by geography—and, in particular, the 12 calypsonians who crossed the Queen’s Park Savannah stage with mic in hand last night. So, instead, …

There is speculation how tomorrow and Tuesday’s Carnival will turn out, as it is taking place amid concern about the price of Carnival participation and the possible deterrent effect of rampant violent crime. At last, there is also intensity of concern about the changing character of the mas’. Social media …

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Milan Kundera, a Czech and French novelist, in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979). The book discusses how people tolerate the torture and suffering over which they have no control. These lessons apply to us as …

One thing this country is extra­ordinarily gifted at is its creative impulses, and Carnival is the premier showcase for it. The sound of steel pans was my first and abiding connection to Carnival. It is still the most powerful bond. Just as cricket fills me with a sense of West …

“[…] It is totally unfair to all semi-finalists that a calypsonian who won a competition in Tobago months before, under completely different circumstances in a completely different environment and possibly judged by a different panel of judges, can be automatically ushered into the Calypso Monarch Final on Carnival Sunday night. …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 team got a lesson in humility at the Larry Gomes Stadium yesterday, as they fell 2-1 to a makeshift National Senior Team in Malabar. The score summary flattered the teenagers. The senior players, led by Soca Warriors coach Angus Eve, kept the ball …

From the onset I wish to indicate that I hold no brief for either the outgoing office holder or the newly appointed President of the Industrial Court. However, as an industrial relations practitioner I wish to indicate that without any transparency on what transpired in this instance a lot of …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus today named a 35-man training squad, comprised almost entirely of local-based players, as he ramps up preparations for next month’s Copa America Playoff against Canada. Eve’s players will enter camp from 5 to 8 February and they are expected to …