The West Indies Cricket Team belatedly peered out from behind the dark clouds this morning with a comprehensive win over Pakistan in their second 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup outing. But they did not take their controversial boss Dave Cameron into the sunlight with them. It is just as well, …
Read More »Help feed T&T women footballers: Chaos as Princesses reach Dallas
The Trinidad and Tobago national women’s football team captain Maylee Attin-Johnson was scrambling to join her teammates in the United States today after a visa delay meant she did not travel with the “Soca Princesses” when they left yesterday for a pre-World Cup qualifying camp in Dallas. At least, Attin-Johnson …
Read More »Fillip for race-baiting: T&T survives Fay-Ann and Rachel spat
The sun rose and set today on all of Trinidad and Tobago and there were no obvious signs of the implosion of one race of people as a result of a Twitter spat between local entertainers Fay-Ann Lyons and Rachel Price. Somewhere in Diego Martin, one suspects a part-time blogger …
Read More »Warner’s questionable lawsuit
Minister of Works and Infrastructure and ex-FIFA Vice President Jack Warner sent a pre-action protocol letter to me—the Wired868.com editor and publisher—on Friday 24 February 2012 through his attorney Om Lalla. The legal document, which claimed defamation and libel, was published on the website of State-owned television station, CTV, and …
Read More »Ex-FIFA VP threatens Wired868… And Twitter
Ex-FIFA Vice President and Minister of Works and Infrastructure Jack Warner has allegedly threatened legal action against Wired868.com owner and investigative journalist, Lasana Liburd, and, by extension, social networking and microblogging service, Twitter, for “completely unacceptable defamation and libel”, according to Trinidad and Tobago television station, CTV. Warner claimed to …
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