Tag Archives: children

Ex-TTFA coach ponders youth football return despite ‘sexting’ schoolboy scandal

Terrence Marcelle, a former Pleasantville Secondary and Trinidad and Tobago national youth team football coach, has a passion for developing youths and the qualifications to place him in the top echelons of local coaches in that field. However, Marcelle’s past indiscretion with a schoolboy is threatening to derail his effort …

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Principal suspended for slapping standard three boy

A Rio Claro primary school teacher has been suspended and may face criminal charges after slapping a standard three student. The student, according to the Trinidad Guardian report, was allegedly struck with such force that the principal’s hand printed out on his face. Medical officials, we cannot confirm, said the …

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Save the Wotless Generation

“These young people today have no respect… They don’t want to work… It’s not like it was in our day.” It seems that the youth of today, “The Wotless Generation”, is always under attack. But do their accusers ever stop and consider who created this lost generation? Perhaps if they …

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Children’s Life Fund CEO falls to dangerous wordplay

Children’s Life Fund chairman Varun Maharaj revealed that the organisation parted ways with its former CEO Geoffrey Lewis after he told the Trinidad Express that the charitable body had not received promised contributions from People’s Partnership ministers for most of their two years in government. A Cabinet note on 4 …

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Nature mocks San Fernando court order

Kezi Doughty, a mother of nine children, had five children taken away by the San Fernando Magistrate’s court on 28 June 2012 after she was found guilty of neglect. On Saturday, Doughty gave birth to twins. Tropical Storm Isaac was one thing but now Nature is messing with Trinidad and …

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Suffer The Children… Then Take Them Home

Port of Spain police celebrated “very few” reports of lost children in the capital during 2012 Carnival celebrations after taking the radical step of asking parents to properly watch their children at public events. Police sources raved about the Police Commissioner’s successful 21st Century Policing Initiative; naysayers credited common sense. …

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Toilet principal unflushed

Blackman’s Private School principal Arlene Blackman was yesterday charged on two counts of cruelty after allegedly flushing the heads of two students in a school toilet; or, in American jargon, adding First World “intensive, interrogation techniques” to the school’s disciplinary code. Blackman faces a fine of between $5,000 and $10,000 …

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