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Master’s Voice: Racism comes in more than one colour and is not just skin-deep
“The vast and overcrowded peninsula of India […] is in its native condition most miserable and no better in a moral point of view, as exhibited in the picture which Sir Emerson Tennet draws of the Tamils of Ceylon: ‘[…] Sensuality and gain are the two passions of their existence, …
Read More »Daly Bread: Runaway violent crime is the predictable outcome of political indifference
Anyone with a copy of The Daly Commentaries or a good memory will know that these columns have repeatedly condemned the dreadful expression “collateral damage”. On Monday last, that phrase was disparaged in an editorial in this newspaper entitled “Crossing the 200-murder mark.” Unfortunately, it is “more than a few …
Read More »Shade beaver-trick and “Baby” thunderbolt do USVI in as T&T Women romp to 10-0 win
Four years ago, the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team started their Canada 2015 World Cup qualifying campaign with a 10-0 rout of St Kitts and Nevis at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain. The opponents and the venue were different this evening but the appetite for goals remained …
Read More »Video: Santa Rosa coach gets two-match ban for “unnecessary contact” in RBNYL U-16 match
FC Santa Rosa coach Terrence Sealy has been suspended from the Republic Bank National Youth League (RBNYL) for two matches. The competition’s three-man emergency committee found him guilty of encroachment and unnecessary contact during an East Zone Under-16 contest against Malabar Young Stars at Constantine Park, Macoya on 12 May …
Read More »Salaam: Massy Stores’ plastic furore; and its relevance to the fight to save our environment
There aren’t too many red-blooded Trinis who can truthfully say they don’t like a little kangkatang or, a lil bacchanal. Four groups know that better than most and exploit it to the hilt: the calypsonians, the comedians, the politicians and the media—and I agree with those who say that it …
Read More »Kiryat kid: Levi Garcia swaps Dutch Eredivisie for Israeli Premier League
Twenty-year-old Trinidad and Tobago winger Levi Garcia will spend his immediate future in north Israel, after agreeing to swap the Dutch Eredivisie for Israeli Premier League club Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona FC. For Garcia, the surprise move ends a two and a half year spell in the Netherlands top flight …
Read More »Central suffer embarrassing elimination; Pro League team kayoed by Martinique amateurs
Trinidad and Tobago will not be represented in Concacaf’s first- or second-tier club competitions this season, after TT Pro League club Central FC were eliminated 2-1 by amateur Martinique team, Club Franciscain, in a play-off contest tonight in Kingston, Jamaica. The defeat means that, for just the second time in …
Read More »Shabazz: Time for T&T Women to re-establish reputation; Young and Mims named in 20-member squad
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team head coach Jamaal Shabazz says his players intend to re-assert themselves in the region, as they prepare to kick off their France 2019 Women’s World Cup campaign on Saturday against the United States Virgin Islands. The Women Soca Warriors tackle the USVI from …
Read More »Dear Editor: The Penal Papers; a satirical response to proposed doubles taxation
“The aloo pie vending bourgeoisie, the saheena ladies and lords, the noblemen who sell nuts and fruits in traffic—all hiding in plain sight—are the wealthiest of all. Even Anthony Bourdain wasn’t invited to their houses for dinner! “[…] Ever wondered why there are 30 different doubles vendors called ‘D Original’? …
Read More »Not Condemning: Will T&T’s first #MeToo help dynamite lasting bastion of male power?
Congratulations are in order for the Minister of Labour, Senator Jennifer Baptiste-Primus, on becoming the first Trinbagonian woman to stand up and be counted in the #MeToo epidemic! The good Minister took the brave step of announcing in a Sunday Express article that she too had been a victim of …
Read More »Judah, Jordan and Semper on U-20 squad for Guadeloupe tourney; Latapy: “Players technically above average”
Shiva Boys Hindu College student Judah Garcia was part of an 18-man Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 Team which left Piarco International Airport this morning for the six-nation Guadeloupe Invitational tournament, which runs from 18-21 May. Garcia, who debuted for the senior Soca Warriors against Panama last month and …
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