“[Terminix La Horquetta Rangers] start their matches incredibly fast,” said Point Fortin Civic head coach Dexter Cyrus, before pausing to think some more. “I haven’t seen a team start a game that fast in some time…” Rangers are still waiting for their first trophy, two years since Terminix director Richard …
Read More »Football saviour or cash cow? Ferguson faces grilling from ‘Faz’ and surprise text from police commissioner
“It seems that football has more bacchanal than national politics,” TV6 Morning edition host Fazeer Mohammed asked Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) presidential candidate Richard Ferguson on Friday 8 November, “why would you want to get involved in this?” “That is a good question,” Ferguson responded. “To be honest, …
Read More »Dear Editor: Phase Two steals Big Five night; should we add a Lil One for the foreigners?
The following letter, designed to ‘offer a few thoughts on the recent Big Five pan concert, staged at the Queen’s Park Savannah last Saturday evening’, was submitted to Wired868 by Earl Best, who asked that we stress that pan music is emphatically NOT one of the several areas in which …
Read More »On a higher note: Best asks if are we raising the bar for pan’s fans
“You’re going to love me,” she sang, raw emotion inhabiting but not inhibiting her voice. And the crowd roared. “She” is Arielle Cowie, the passionate young singer who performed with Renegades at last month’s International Steelband Foundation’s BIG 5 concert. And she was right; I loved her. As did, as …
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