“What’s really going on with this WASA water tank?” Bobby inquired, in the middle of our walk last Wednesday morning. In the area to the west of the tank, there was heavy machinery, a tractor and a front-end loader. I know that put Bobby’s mind at ease. He is a …
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RBNYFL 24: Photo finish for East U-14 title race; World Class coach claims youth football success formula
World Class Soccer Clinic and the Arima Araucans Academy are in a neck-and-neck battle to capture the East Zone Under-14 crown, after match day six (the penultimate round) in the Republic Bank National Youth Football League (RBNYFL). At the Republic Bank Sports Ground in Barataria on Saturday, World Class defeated …
Read More »Daly Bread: Celebration of life—toast to Dumas, de la Bastide and Brown
It is 22 years to the day that my very first column appeared in the Sunday Express newspaper. It has done so every Sunday since, save and except odd days when I let my caring editors know in advance that I will not submit a column on a particular weekend. …
Read More »Noble: Battling for our nation’s soul—T&T cannot continue like this
Each day, we are assaulted with new stories about our crime situation. It appears that the front pages of our daily newspaper will soon be unable to shock us. We are growing numb to the suffering spread across the land. Everywhere we turn, we are confronted by violence. Stunning pictures …
Read More »Vaneisa: Mancrab and the river—man’s struggle against time
A conversation about imagining our future planet raised a jumble of issues for me. I could grasp the substantive points being made by the 30-year-old, but many of them had not occurred to me before. It seemed that it might be a world where basic survival would define all activities. …
Read More »Jaric Titans leave 11-year-old boy in London; High Commission arranging travel docs
Jaric Titans managing director and head coach Brian Browne finally led his travelling party of roughly 90 persons back to Tobago from the Manchester International Easter Cup today, via a flight from the London Gatwick Airport. But they will be short of one child when they hit the tarmac at …
Read More »EPL blackout set for court; CSport accuses Digicel and Flow of “anti-competitive” behaviour over tv rights
The Verticast Media Group yesterday claimed to have filed an “anti-competitive lawsuit” against Digicel (Jamaica) Limited and Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited and Cable and Wireless Jamaica Limited (subsidiaries of Liberty Latin America) in the Jamaica Supreme Court. Liberty Latin America operates the Flow network in the Caribbean. The alleged lawsuit …
Read More »TTFA confirm electoral candidates; green light for Teams Edwards and Wharfe
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has confirmed its list of candidates for the Saturday 13 April Extraordinary Congress, which will see a new president and executive committee elected. All 18 persons who chose to run for office—led by presidential candidates Kieron Edwards and Colin Wharfe—were cleared to do …
Read More »Remembering Teacher Percy and our journey into education
Bring back the old-time days… Do you remember the primary school days when we sat in the dusty school yard under the tambrand, tree, the downs tree, the immortelle tree, the padoo tree, or whatever tree that was in the yard while teacher Percy preached hellfire and brimstone and brought …
Read More »Noble: Good Friday trials—compromised leaders don’t recognise their power
We tend to centre the Easter weekend observances on the Resurrection in our modern-day society. We skip past Good Friday—but there would be no Easter without Good Friday. We must face Good Friday’s trials and darkness before we can appreciate the dawn of the Resurrection. The events of Good Friday …
Read More »Vaneisa: Paying to learn—the lingering issue with VAT on books
In the late 1990s, in response to one of my weekly columns, retired Professor Emeritus Desmond Imbert called me. It was the beginning of a rather odd friendship that went on for years—when he died in 2010, we had still never met in person. Communication was always at his instigation, …
Read More »The Gov’t will pay! Inside Jaric Titans’ $3.6 mil Manchester “joyride”
On Wednesday 27 March, Jaric Titans Sports and Development Club managing director and head coach Brian Browne and team manager Tracey Coldeira strolled into the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Manchester with a large contingent of adults and children from Tobago. Browne made a booking at the four-star hotel for …
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