Anthony Harford, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) marketing manager, said that ongoing High Court action might have influenced the TTFF’s failure to invite the 2006 World Cup players for the Sport Ministry’s 50 Greatest Legends in Sport award ceremony. And he insisted that their absence from the Jubilee …

Defending Digicel Pro League champions DirecTV W Connection and 2012 Digicel Pro Bowl  winners Defence Force will lift the curtain on the 2012/13 domestic top flight season today when they battle from 5 pm at the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella for the Digicel Charity Shield. Today’s winner will be awarded …

Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb confirmed on Thursday that the United States’ Internal Revenue Services (IRS), accounting firm BDO International and global legal company Sidley Austin LLP are working in tandem to scrutinize the legacy of his predecessor and Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security Minister Jack Warner. The CONCACAF Executive was …

Sport Minister Anil Roberts and, by extension, the Trinidad and Tobago government spared little expense in celebrating the finished article as it recently feted Olympic gold medallist Keshorn Walcott and 50 of the country’s top sportsmen. But the feeling within local football circles is that the Sport Ministry is not …

Trinidad and Tobago’s acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams said the Police Service has accepted DPP Roger Gaspard’s advice to investigate his line minister and ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner over a June 2011 bribery scandal involving disgraced former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohamed Bin Hammam. Williams warned that, although the …

The sudden collapse of six feet of the Beetham Highway yesterday afternoon prompted concerned Sea Lots resident Gabriel Garraway to race on to the road to warn motorists. According to Trinidad Express reporter Joel Julien, Garraway was cheerily and graciously greeted by one driver who told him: “Get out of …

COP leader Prakash Ramadhar has refused to support an ultimatum from his party’s vice-chairman Vernon De Lima over National Security Minister Jack Warner’s continued Cabinet presence. Ramadhar, who once considered the loss of San Fernando Mayor Marlene Coudray to be an unpardonable offence, prefers to fight over ladies. Warner retorted …

“Reprehensible, unacceptable, unprofessional.” Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams was referring to the slap meted out by a plainclothes police officer to citizen Terrence Augustine, which was posted on youtube, rather than his own decision to make a public statement on a matter that is still being investigated. Williams was not …

Newly formed outfit, Central FC, is set to become the latest entrant to Trinidad and Tobago’s Pro League ranks after being accepted for the Digicel Pro League 2012/13 season. Central, which lists its address as 53 West Boundary Street, California, Couva, will be the 20th football club to take a stab …

Can you recall a day in your life that you wish you could take back? Jason “Scotty” Scotland, a former trainee electrician from a poor neighbourhood in Morvant, Trinidad, does. His mother, Ann, now lives in a comfortable and sizeable two-storey home in Barataria. He drives a Range Rover. This July, …

Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic athletes continue to wait for their heroic homecoming. Sport Minister Anil Roberts promised a gala ceremony on September 3. However, this has now been adjusted to a “function” sometime between September 10 and 18. Wired868 wonders if Olympic athletes who don’t throw javelin and run 400 …

South Africa’s famous sprint amputee, Oscar “Blade Runner” Pistorius, did not defend his Paralympic 200 metre crown yesterday but still caught up to former United States track icon and sour grape extraordinaire, Carl Lewis. Pistorius lamented an uneven playing field after losing to Brazil’s Alan Oliviera in a race that …