Trinidad and Tobago’s Digicel Pro League football competition will offer a $1 million first prize to its champion club for the 2013/14 season, which kicks off at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva on Friday 13 September. The first prize is more than double last season’s cash award of $400,000, …
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Can you recall a day in your life that you wish you could take back? Jason “Scotty” Scotland, a former trainee electrician from a poor neighbourhood in Morvant, Trinidad, does. His mother, Ann, now lives in a comfortable and sizeable two-storey home in Barataria. He drives a Range Rover. This July, …
Read More »Pro League given grounds for optimism
Whatever may be the Pro League’s perceived flaws, neither a poor work ethic nor a lack of transparency is ever included among them. League CEO Dexter Skeene is aided by an enthusiastic young staff knitted together by Corporate Secretary Julia Baptiste—whom he describes as a phenomenal person and asset—and press …
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