Seeing a big picture requires a lens shaped by multiple streams of information. If you live within the confines of a cave, everything you know is defined by its walls. Not so? It follows that how you respond to events is determined by the knowledge that you have to work …

“[…] His death is a profound loss not only to his family but also to the profession he elevated and the region he served so passionately. “[…] Jones P Madeira’s career was a masterclass in the power of journalism as the fourth estate and a vital pillar of democracy…” The …

Scarborough Secondary are just one point away from an unprecedented spot in the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division, after a 3-1 win over Pleasantville Secondary in Big 5 action at Shaw Park yesterday. The result did not have an immediate effect on the league placings. However, it moved …

TTGameplan was unveiled as the new management company for the Republic Bank National Youth Football League (RBNYFL) at the launch of the 2025 tournament this morning. The organisation, led by veteran sports reporter Dennis Tayé Allen, replaces Gateway Athletics International, which administered the league from 2022 to 2024. “The focus …

“[…] Sadly, after raising and investing over a million dollars and helping thousands of youngsters and after donating thousands of pounds of hamper items, the tournament committee feels highly frustrated, harassed and disrespected. “[…] As a result, the committee has decided to suspend all NLCL Community Cup tournaments for 2025, …

On a faraway, remote island in a time long, long before yesterday, a great Party that always prevails—it is on their calling card—summons its regents to a meeting at Tobago Plantation. The aging taikō, Lord Keithos, has made it known on several occasions that he wants to leave public affairs …

“[…] Arresting and imprisoning individuals removes them from society, preventing them from committing more crimes while incarcerated. But there are hundreds more to take their place, who are likely to never face arrest or imprisonment. “Research shows that while punitive measures can temporarily reduce crime, they often fail to address …

NLCL directors Brian Jordan and his wife Germaine Jordan officially announced the cancellation of the 2024/25 season of the NLCL Under-19 Community Cup, one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most prominent nationwide youth football competitions, on 30 December 2024. Their decision to pull the plug on the competition was preceded by …

The “well-coordinated hit with pinpoint accuracy” that felled Randall Hector was entirely predictable. The roots of this current situation started with the 2011 State of Emergency. Then, the Attorney General told us: “When the state of emergency was declared by His Excellency, it was in response to intelligence received from …

Responses to the declaration of a state of emergency have predictably been draped in political flags. As usual, everyone knows what should be done, and just as in West Indies cricket, everyone knows where the blame falls. What continues to be apparent is that it is not politically expedient to …

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley gave a superficial description of our country’s state of narco-infiltrated crime to the media on Friday last before his melodramatic announcement of his intended resignation from office as prime minister “before the end of the legal limits of this term” and his departure from electoral …

St Benedict’s College have appealed the decision of the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) to strip them of 12 points—and, effectively, the 2024 Premier Division title—due to their use of an invalid player, captain Derrel Garcia, for four matches. The appeal was lodged on Friday 3 January and Wired868 understands …