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Fatima College dusted off the disappointment of their Big 4 Premier Division Final loss to St Benedict’s College with a 5-0 spanking of Queen’s Royal College (QRC) at the Hasely Crawford Stadium this evening to get their first Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) North Zone Intercol win since 2013. Today’s …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) yesterday revealed the current local-based longlist of Men’s National Under-17 Team head coach Shawn Cooper, with a remarkable 28 from his 35 member provisional squad coming from just four schools. Fatima College, the beaten Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Big 4 finalists, account …

Tranquillity Secondary produced the shock of the 2022 Coca Cola National Intercol competition so far, as they edged Trinity College (Moka) 4-2 yesterday, via kicks from the penalty mark, to advance to the North Zone quarterfinals. Their reward is a match-up with Premier Division outfit, Queen’s Royal College, from 3.30pm …

Feed Faustin and he will score! That was the apparent game plan for Trinity College East as they faced QRC in Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division action at the Hasely Crawford Stadium today. And boy, did it work like a charm. On Wednesday, 17 year-old Jaheim Faustin battled …

After being on the wrong side of a 13-0 thumping against San Juan North Secondary in Bourg Mulatresse on Saturday, Chaguanas North Secondary battled back valiantly yesterday to earn a dramatic 2-2 draw away to QRC in Group B action of the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division. The …

I woke up one morning a few weeks ago to news that dulled the effulgence of the light that usually comes over a city like Madrid in early June. A message from my brother that Patrick White had died.  “At school when we were all students it seemed normal,” my …

It was in primary school that we were introduced to Charles Wolfe’s ‘The Burial of Sir John Moore’. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note/As his corpse to the rampart we hurried./Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot/O’er the grave where our hero we buried. Those lines came …

“[…] It is believed that [Brian Bain] got his goalkeeping skills from his elder brother, Brendan, who also had a stint in the same capacity at QRC. “The brothers held the spotlight when they faced each other in the AFL competitions on opposing teams—Brian for Ramsbottom and Brendan with Fulham…” …

Trinidad and Tobago lost a giant of its youth football arena today, at roughly 3am. Former St Anthony’s College and Queen’s Royal College (QRC) football coach Nigel ‘Grovy’ Grosvenor passed away at the Couva Hospital this morning, more than a month after he was admitted there—following a positive test for …

When I told Sheldon Anthony Gomes that Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards had reminded me of him, his response was immediate. “He as good as you?” I had asked in jest. “Nah, skip,” he responded, “ten times better—at least!” Richards had singlehandedly run out three Australian batsmen in the 1975 World …

Iconic Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) coach and former Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) national youth team coach Nigel ‘Grovey’ Grosvenor is among 828 persons being treated for the novel coronavirus at present, within the Ministry of Health’s parallel health care system. Grosvenor was admitted to the Couva General …

The following is the fourth part of Owen Thompson’s recall of that unforgettable summer in 1976 which ushered in the West Indies cricket team’s glory years: From the very first snippets we heard of the Rastaman Vibration album, the Queen’s Royal College Sixth Form, Upper and Lower, launched into fervent …