Tag Archives: Live Wire

Crissy touch down… the whole place shell down! (Best read aloud over a soca beat). The Russia 2018 World Cup had lift off today as Portugal and Spain raised the roof in a entertaining 3-3 clash in Sochi. Cristiano Ronaldo got a hattrick for Portugal—who, lest we forget, are the …

It was about as close and nail biting as a Russia presidential election. The opposition party seemed to be putting in all the effort in Moscow this morning but, by the final whistle, the tally was a lopsided win for the establishment as the Russia football team kicked off the …

Trinidad and Tobago will have their work cut out for them if they are NOT to qualify for the FIFA 2026 World Cup tournament, after member associations voted this morning to hold the 48-team competition between three Concacaf nations: United States, Mexico and Canada. As host nations qualify automatically and …

In one of the coldest hits since Benny Blanco (John Leguizamo) iced Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) in Carlito’s Way, the political career of Diego Martin Central MP Darryl Smith was snuffed out this afternoon—presumably just before he could form his first queue of desperate women seeking government housing. Smith, who …

First, the good news. New Commonwealth Games gold medalist Michelle-Lee Ahye will not be told—in a fierce, sleazy whisper—how good her pants looks on her, when she meets the Sport Minister in the Piarco International Airport’s VIP Lounge, later this week. The bad news? Well, single mothers on the market …

While much of Trinidad and Tobago’s workforce will be stuck in rush hour traffic tomorrow morning, the trio of Michelle-Lee Ahye, Khalifa St Fort and Reyare Thomas will be sprinting after destiny in the Carrara Stadium, as all three earned places at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games women’s 100 …

If ignorance is really bliss, then the happiest man alive is not Machel Montano anymore. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley—once a “raging bull” against internal PNM corruption,“teacup tosser” for slick MPs and “Rottweiler” to political shenanigans—gave some insight into his new ‘inner Zen’ yesterday, with breezy responses to the stewardship …

Get in allyuh lane! Trinidad and Tobago got its Commonwealth Games adventure off to a curious start this morning, as 25-year-old sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye carried the flag for the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee’s (TTOC) contingent at the Carrara Stadium in the Gold Coast, Australia. Ahye—or, as Mr Live Wire …

If Marlene McDonald is Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s answer, then what the hell is the question? On Thursday 1 March, Keithos made a surprise move to steal the spotlight from the “Black Panther” as he announced his endorsement of Marlene III—despite the fact that Marlene I was about as …

If chivalry really is dead, maybe the Police Service should consider bringing in Sport Minister Darryl Smith for questioning. The Diego Martin Central MP set a new mark for family values today—and Mr Live Wire is thinking ‘skid mark’—when he took to Facebook to threaten to throw his wife of 12 …

Scene: COSTAATT campus. In an effort to spice up its media programme, the tertiary level school has hired Mr Live Wire to teach “Principles of Journalism” to students and would-be journalists. The class is in session… Live Wire: Okay, class, so today we are going to look at a real-life …

Scene: Balisier House. Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi and Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General Fitzgerald Hinds stride purposefully up to the secretary. Faris: My goodly madame secretary, it behoves me to solicit you for an acute convocation with the Honorable Dr Prime Minister over an affair of grave …