Like a passing cloud, our discussions about the SEA performance of our children have come and dissipated. While we anticipated that there would be some learning loss due to the effects of Covid on our schools and our children’s education, the results are astounding. In every tier of the results, …
Read More »T&T will co-host Concacaf NextPlay Cup, 56 local primary schools involved
Trinidad and Tobago will be one of four host nations for the Concacaf Scotiabank NextPlay Cup, which takes place from 10 November to 8 December. Jamaica, Bahamas and Barbados are the other hosts. Concacaf launched the invitational youth tournament earlier this week at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica. …
Read More »Corneal aims to widen player pool through TTFA Primary School programme
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical director Anton Corneal will attempt to widen the pool of local players and introduce children to the game at an early age via the Nationwide Primary Schools Project, which was launched on Wednesday morning at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar. Corneal was …
Read More »MASTER’S VOICE: Save us from this arseness! Only dinosaurs would suggest shortened lunch breaks
Sherma Wilson, you don’t know me; we’ve never met. I think we traded messages briefly on Facebook a couple years ago, but I giving yuh wuk to do. Most of your listeners are from the lower-income, depressed communities in the country; try and get some of them into Parliament nah—and …
Read More »Doh hot yuh head: Crime Watch featured in primary school textbooks
Trinidad and Tobago’s first Prime Minister Eric Williams said the country’s future lies in our children’s bookbags. If so, then pray. In the “Trinidad & Tobago Social Studies for Primary School: Standard 2” book, author Kevin Jeanville listed crime shows and letters to the editor among the country’s viable solutions …
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