New Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team interim head coach Kenwyne Jones vowed to help stabilise a traumatised team and build on the work of former coach James Thomas, as he faced the media for the first time this afternoon in a virtual press conference. Jones, who has a …
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TV6 ME: Making the Write Start; on Wired868’s $26,000 essay writing contest
Patron Sean Powder and Wired868 copy editor Earl Best talk to the TV6 Morning Edition show about the Wired868 Write Start, which offers TT$26,000 in cash prizes to students aged between 11 and 18. Click HERE to find out how to enter the Write Start contest. More from Wired868 Daly …
Read More »Jones appointed T&T Women’s head coach; N/C: Konstin had ‘personal commitments and conflicts’
The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team have their fourth international head coach in just two weeks, after the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee announced former Soca Warriors captain Kenwyne Jones as head coach this evening. Jones, whose coaching experience thus far comprises two assistant jobs under Stern John at Men’s …
Read More »TTPS finds only damaged dustbin and cracked glass at AG’s bldg, after claims of bombs, shooting and ‘shattered glass’
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has so far found no link between detonated firecrackers in a dustbin at the Parkade on the corner of Queen and Edward Streets in Port-of-Spain and an incident at the Office of the Attorney General on a hectic morning for law enforcement officers. …
Read More »Dear Editor: Don’t condone law-breaking, Fazeer! TTPS have to enforce law in Barrackpore
“[…] Based on the video images provided by the local news media, it would appear that the actions of some of the protesters were illegal… The police officers have a duty to enforce the law. “[…] Mr Fazeer Mohammed unleashed a tirade of abuse against the police… The police officers …
Read More »American Futsal coach, Konstin, faces axe after ONE session; Kenwyne tipped for Women’s job
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is set to appoint former Soca Warriors captain and England Premier League forward Kenwyne Jones as Women’s National Senior Team head coach. Wired868 was informed that the 37-year-old Jones, who represented Trinidad and Tobago at the Germany 2006 World Cup and the 2001 …
Read More »T2021 W/C: WI batsmen smothered in 7-wkt warm-up loss to Pakistan, despite late Pollard cameo
In Dubai today, in the first of two warm-up games before their opening T20 World Cup cricket contest, Kieron Pollard’s West Indies failed to get going. In a comprehensive defeat to Pakistan, they managed only 130 for 7, going down by six wickets with 27 balls to spare. The ‘Maroon …
Read More »T2021 W/C: WI have explosive batsmen and wily death bowler, but large boundaries can be factor
“[…] No fewer than eight of the 15 players chosen, namely Evin Lewis, Lendl Simmons, Chris Gayle, Shimron Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran, captain Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell and Fabian Allen, have repeatedly proven themselves to be fully capable of winning T20 matches on their own, with their very powerful, often destructive …
Read More »Dear Editor: By what logic is Dr Rowley’s solution to the Tobago impasse ‘autocratic’?
“[…] Both the PNM and the PDP sought to resolve this issue by seeking to reach some sort of compromise solution/consensus in order to establish a workable bi-partisan administration. All such efforts failed miserably. “Good governance demanded that the issue be resolved as quickly as possible. What better way to …
Read More »‘Should PolSC have been left in the dark?’ President says Merit List for CoP was received and ‘withdrawn almost immediately’
“[…] I confirm that an Order of Merit List in respect of the commissioner of police was delivered on 11 August 2021 to the OTP and withdrawn almost immediately thereafter that day. I therefore had no list from which a notification could issue. “[…] If there exists apparently credible information …
Read More »Noble: Fixing our ‘superfluous’ mess; how the Judiciary, President, and Prime Minister stood up
Within the last two years, the world has had two pivotal moments: the arrival of Covid-19 and the development of the vaccine. The virus started small but has taken lives and wrecked economies, changing the way we live forever. Even though ‘Operation Warp Speed’ delivered vaccines way ahead of schedule …
Read More »Daly Bread: Concerns remain over Al-Rawi’s half-Nelson and the Office of the President
Who aborted the process for the appointment of a substantive commissioner of police and why? Is the unprecedented situation of the top leadership positions in the Police Service now being vacant the outcome of the President’s acts and omissions concerning the merit list which the Police Service Commission had settled, …
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