In 1976, Elton John penned these words: “What’ve I gotta do to make you love me?/ What’ve I gotta do to make you care?/ It’s sad, so sad/ It’s a sad, sad situation/ And it’s getting’ more and more absurd/ It’s sad, so sad/ Why can’t we talk it over?/ …
Read More »NGC SSFL Super Cup moved to POS; Fatima and “Pres Lions” renew rivalry
The Secondary Schools Football League 2024 season will kick off with the National Gas Company (NGC) SSFL Super Cup from 4pm on Friday 6 September at the Hasely Crawford Stadium—and not at the Diego Martin Sporting Complex on Saturday. The schools football body confirmed the adjustment today, via a release …
Read More »NGC/NAAATT Jnr & Snr Champs: Aaron Antoine endures tough opening day
Star attraction Aaron Antoine faces up to tough physical challenge while Tenique Vincent, Keneisha Shelbourne and Peyton Winter make encouraging starts on Day One of 2024 NGC NAAATT Junior and Senior Championship: More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024 Trinidad and Tobago’s 4x100m relay …
Read More »NGC partners with SportsMax for Paris 2024 Olympic coverage
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be aired on TTT and SportsMax, with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) acting as a “significant partner” in the broadcast. SportsMax forecast that its Olympic coverage, approximately 2,000 hours of content, will reach over three million Caribbean homes via …
Read More »CYG 2023: A Journey of Triumph and Inspiration (Video)
Wired868 revisits the Trinidad and Tobago 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games, with the help of our sponsor NGC, through a lively and visually stunning montage: More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024 Trinidad and Tobago’s 4x100m relay teams close the curtain on Day Three as …
Read More »Daly Bread: “Stay safe”—T&T’s collective vulnerability to violent crime; and the need for national archiving
For the last two weeks I have focused on how successive governments—PNM and UNC, or UNC-led—miserably failed us in providing the equipment and specially trained personnel capable of detecting and interdicting illegal firearms importation through the legal ports. We now have an unqualified acknowledgment from McDonald Jacob, the acting commissioner …
Read More »YEP Rising Stars: Meet 15-year-old track and field starlet, Janae De Gannes
Wired868 talks to 15-year-old long jump athlete and 200m talent Janae De Gannes of Bishop Anstey PoS about her goals in track and field in the fourth instalment of our NGC Youth Elite Programme (YEP) series. More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024 Trinidad …
Read More »YEP Rising Stars: Shakeem McKay opens up on his goals and the impact of Deon Lendore
Wired868 talks to teenaged sprinter Shakeem McKay about his goals, motivation and the legacy of mentor Deon Lendore in the third instalment of our NGC Youth Elite Programme (YEP) series: More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024 Trinidad and Tobago’s 4x100m relay teams close …
Read More »YEP Rising Stars: Meet Gianna Paul, T&T’s budding heptathlon heroine
Wired868 talks to El Dorado West Secondary student and budding heptathlon queen Gianna Paul in the second instalment of our NGC Youth Elite Programme (YEP) series: #NGC #AtTheForefrontOfEnergy #SmallStepsToChange #AGreenNewFutureStartsWithYou #YEP More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024 Trinidad and Tobago’s 4x100m relay teams …
Read More »YEP Rising Stars: Meet high jump wonder-boy, Aaron Antoine (Video)
Wired868 opens its four-part series on a gifted NGC Youth Elite Programme (YEP) quartet with a chat with star high jump and long jump athlete and Presentation College (San Fernando) student Aaron Antoine: More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024 Trinidad and Tobago’s 4x100m …
Read More »Open season: Jereem lives the dream, Keshorn sets new Javelin challenge, and Antoine leaps towards history
It was more than a Dream! As athletes braced sporadic showers and fans “oo-hed” and “ahh-ed” as lightning lit up the overcast skies over the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago’s ace sprinter Jereem “The Dream” Richards smashed his personal best time in the 200m event at the NGC-NAAATT National …
Read More »‘We measure ourselves against intn’l standards’: NGC becomes T&T’s first GRI Community member
The National Gas Company (NGC) has laid claim to being Trinidad and Tobago’s first business to be registered as a member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Community. GRI is the global standard-bearer for impact reporting and its network comprises over 500 private and public organisations from more than 70 …
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