A spirited team performance and generous slice of good fortune paved the way for the first upset of the First Citizens Cup tonight as the modestly assembled St Ann’s Rangers stunned North East Stars 2-1 in a quarterfinal meeting at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain. Long-serving Rangers utility …
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Now Jack lectures the Anglican church
National Security Minister Jack Warner took his holier-than-thou routine to new heights yesterday after criticizing Anglican Reverend Dean Collin Sampson for supposedly lowering the bar in religious values by criticising the People’s Partnership government. Dean Sampson suggested, during Monday’s opening of the Law Term, that the nation was outraged by …
Read More »D/Martin grateful for small mercies
The People’s Partnership yesterday distributed cheques ranging in value from $7,000 to $30,000 to over 100 Diego Martin families affected by last month’s flood. The pay-out totaled $1.8 million or roughly $200,000 less than the State paid Machel Montano to sing “Advantage” last year. “I know there is no way …
Read More »Meet Central FC
New Trinidad and Tobago Digicel Pro League team, Central FC, will start its season on 21 September 2012 with a First Citizens Cup clash with Defence Force from 8 pm in the second game of a double header at the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella. Central FC, or “The Sharks”, …
Read More »Caledonia draws T&TEC in First Citizens Cup quarters
First Citizens Cup 2011 finalists Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA and T&TEC will face each other at the start of the 2012 edition after the two Trinidad and Tobago Pro League clubs were drawn in the opening quarterfinal round today. Caledonia AIA and T&TEC will meet from 8 pm on …
Read More »Connection eliminated from Champions League
A late header from veteran Xelajú defender Fredy Santiago ended DirecTV W Connection’s CONCACAF Champions League aspirations last night as the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League’s defending champions lost 3-2 at the Estadio Mario Camposeco in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Twice, Connection fought back from a goal down to hold the Guatemalan outfit …
Read More »Chants of a madman
People woke up a few days ago to Jack Warner making some incredible comments. The social media pages were abuzz and if our country was any bigger we could have crashed servers with the video clip of the Minister of national Security featuring in yet another interview while managing to …
Read More »PP spinners plot return to grace
Scene: PP emergency meeting Prime Minister: “Gentlemen, and ladies, I think you will all know the reason for this emergency meeting. Following yesterday’s march through the streets, it was clear to me from the television coverage that some of the trees around the Port of Spain savannah are in need …
Read More »Volney trumps clause 34; Machel law expected
(A deep, mysterious voice offers a monologue) IN THE FUTURE ONE NATION IS AFFLICTED WITH A NEW KIND OF GOVERNMENT. ONE WOMAN CONTROLS IT ALL. BUT JUDGEMENT IS COMING TO TAKE DOWN AN EMPIRE. HE MUST GO ALL THE WAY UP. HERBERT TWO …
Read More »PP scared of speedy divorce
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan admitted to a crisis yesterday but it was not the one that Chief Justice Ivor Archie and the rest of Trinidad and Tobago was most worried about. The Chief Justice and the Law Association chided the Government about the haste in proclaiming the Administration of Justice …
Read More »Hillsborough: two decades-plus later
I wasn’t there that day; I couldn’t get a ticket. Tickets for the F.A. Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield were like gold dust. But for football supporters in UK, 15th April, 1989 was our 9/11. I was working in a busy shopping centre …
Read More »Volney verbal volley to voters
Justice Minister Herbert Volney was identified in today’s Sunday Express as the Cabinet official responsible for the proclamation of the controversial Clause 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act 2011. Thankfully, the St Joseph MP had an explanation for the hasty proclamation of that clause, which he shared …
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