The prominent sold out fetes this June provided precursor vibes of the 2023 Carnival season as fete goers celebrated “we outside again”. The coming season was loudly announced by the Tribe band launch in July, which drew large crowds behind music trucks on Ariapita Avenue. Other promoters remained at event …
Read More »Wired868 turns 10 years old! And here’s how we got there…
On 12 January 2012, Wired868 went live for the first time with a report from a groundbreaking case at the Port-of -Spain High Court. Thirteen members of Trinidad and Tobago’s World Cup 2006 football team—more than half of the history-making 23-man squad—were suing their former employers, the Trinidad and Tobago …
Read More »Dear Editor: Open letter to T&T’s women—vaccinate your children and your households
“[…] Sisters, I urge you to make the right choice and ensure that all our eligible children are vaccinated, so that they can carry those school bags into their schools again. “Just as we carried them as babes in arms to get their first vaccinations, let us now ensure that …
Read More »Pierre’s attacks were ‘vicious, systematic, widespread and targeted’! Court awards Liburd $550k Facebook libel judgment
“[Gordon Pierre’s] defamation was done maliciously and with the conscious intent to injure and destroy [Lasana Liburd] in his workplace and personal life,” stated Master of the Supreme Court Martha Alexander, in her 17-page judgment on 7 May 2019. “This court viewed the defendant’s defamatory action as actuated by malice, …
Read More »Team ‘Speng’ prevail: Glen and Martin tip scales at Wired868 Football Festival VI
The Darin “Speng” Lewis XI didn’t have to wait long for revenge as they stole bragging rights in the Wired868 Football Festival VI with a 2-1 triumph over the Wired868 XI at UWI’s St Augustine Campus. Central to “Team Speng’s” triumph was the performance of the UTT duo of goalkeeper …
Read More »Jemmott, Dwarika and Theobald shine; but Oliver, Stewart and Jorsling give Wired868 bragging rights
Well, it took us long enough… The Wired868 XI finally won its own football festival—at the fifth time of asking—as MVP Marvin Oliver and sizzling Ryan “Fry” Stewart led their all-star team to a 4-1 win over the Darin Lewis Invitational XI at the UWI admin ground in St Augustine …
Read More »Snap: Darin, Glasgow, Leonson and the Wired868 Football Festival IV in photos!
Steups! For the second straight year, the Wired868 XI lost in its Football Festival by a solitary goal. The Darin Lewis Invitational XI stole bragging rights yesterday with a 6-5 win over a decidedly more mature Wired line-up at the UWI SPEC ground in St Augustine. Darin “Speng” Lewis turned …
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