Joseph Biden, president of the United States, and our former Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who became our country’s constitutionally appointed leader of the Opposition in 2015, have something in common. They have been assessed as electoral liabilities. Biden’s liability was more precisely revealed by the regular opinion polls published in …

June 29, the T20 World Cup final. David Miller, the finisher who came in at #6, has just given his hand away. Unnecessarily. Kagiso Rabada can win the coveted trophy for South Africa. True, he’s batting at #10. But cometh the hour, cometh the batsman. Even a #10 can get …

I don’t mean to be harping on health issues, especially given my lack of medical credentials. But as I said, I’ve experienced enough to feel that it is worth sharing information when it relates to the public good. So bear with me. Please. A few weeks ago, my offspring called …

The Trinidad and Tobago Girls National Under-15 team missed out on a place in the Concacaf Championship League B finals today, after suffering a 1-0 defeat to Dominican Republic at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. A late Kaylee Lainez freekick decided the outcome of the match, just …

Trinidad and Tobago will face the Dominican Republic in the Concacaf Girls Under-15 Championship League B semifinal round after closing their Group C assignments with a comprehensive 5-0 rout of Grenada at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain today. The young Women Soca Warriors and Dominican Republic square …

Outgoing Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve had another 17 months left on his contract with the Soca Warriors when he was sacked by the new Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) executive, led by president Kieron Edwards. However, crucially, there was a termination clause. …

“[…] The term ‘mental slavery’ suggests that even after physical chains have been broken, the psychological and cultural chains imposed by centuries of oppression can persist. “These chains are manifested in the form of internalized racism, self-doubt, and a sense of inferiority that can be deeply ingrained in the consciousness …

Trinidad and Tobago teams picked up matching wins on the second match day of the 2024 Concacaf Girls Under-15 Championship today, with both outfits within touching distance of semifinal berths in League B. The Trinidad and Tobago Girls National Under-15 team edged Curaçao 1-0 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in …

Trinidad and Tobago football fans endured 140 minutes with no goals and few clear scoring opportunities, as their Girls National Under-15 and High Performance teams kicked off their respective campaigns in League B of the Concacaf Girls Under-15 Championships today at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo. Trinidad and Tobago …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has appointed Derek King as “caretaker coach” of the Men’s National Senior Team. King, 44, replaces his former boss, Angus Eve, and will have the responsibility of leading the Soca Warriors at the start of their 2024-25 Concacaf Nations League journey. Trinidad and …

St Benedict’s College coach Randolph ‘Balo’ Boyce has been selected as the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 Team head coach, in the second major appointment done by the Kieron Edwards-led Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). He replaces Brian Haynes, who led the young Soca Warriors to a first …

“Questions of silence always raise questions of memory. Who and what has been forgotten? Which peoples and events are downplayed? “[…] Memory is a site of conflict, ‘in which many contrary forces converge and in which the interactions between memory and forgetting are contingent as much as they are systematic…” …