Charles takes Bravo’s spot in T20 squad
ST JOHN’S—Attacking batsman Johnson Charles will replace Darren Bravo in the 15-man West Indies squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in India next month, the West Indies Cricket Board confirmed yesterday....
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Regional cricket at Lara Stadium at year’s end
The Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba is set to host opening round matches in the West Indies Premier Cricket League Four-Day Tournament in the 2016-2017 season which gets underway in November.This is the...
View ArticleT&T shows no force against Miller
West Indies spin bowler Nikita Miller snatched seven wickets for the Jamaica Scorpions as the T&T Red Force batsmen failed to deliver on the second day of the seventh round in the West Indies...
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US Ends T&T Women Olympic Dreams
T&T’s senior women had their Rio Olympic Games aspirations ended on Friday night as Alex Morgan netted a hat-trick to lead the United States to a 5-0 victory in Concacaf Olympic semifinal round...
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Accident survivor says driver saved him as car hurtled towards them
A Cunupia man who died in the horrific car accident on the Uriah Butler Highway on Saturday night had pushed his best friend, in the passenger seat, out of the way to save his friend’s life moments...
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Barrackpore man latest road victim
When Wayne Brown ran off the road early yesterday morning, he hit a lamp pole with so much force, that the engine of his Nissan Medallist car detached and landed about 20 feet away from the vehicle...
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Classes restart amid heavy police presence
Classes at the Chaguanas North Secondary School are set to resume as normal today, albeit with an increased police presence.Education Minister Anthony Garcia said yesterday that police officials have...
View ArticleNipdec to make back-payments to pharmacies
Chairman of the National Insurance Property Development Company Ltd (Nipdec) Michael Toney has given the assurance that millions owed to 290 pharmacies for services rendered under the Chronic Disease...
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Elections for COP: Ramadhar says only his blood to be spilled
The national council of the Congress of the People has agreed with a proposal by the outgoing leader of the party Prakash Ramadhar to hold elections for the Political Leader and national executive...
View ArticleMATT raps CNC3, Alexander and police over Ian Alleyne clash
The Media Association of T&T says CNC3 breached journalistic ethics in airing an edited video clip of Tuesday’s clash between Crime Watch host, Ian Alleyne and Inspector Roger Alexander. According...
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Wonders of wood carving
Wooden carvings (often of human faces and figures, steel pans and local flora and fauna) are a common sight in Tobago. Sold largely at roadsides, on beaches or in small stalls in populated areas, these...
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Chow men
Corn chow, dongs chow, peewah chow, mango, pineapple, pommerac, green apple, whatever fruit is in season, you can be sure Hot Mouth on Main Street in Chaguanas has it. There is always a small crowd...
View ArticleT&T to showcase cuisine
The Trinidad Hotels, Restaurants and Tourism Association (THRTA) is to host an awards ceremony at Hyatt Regency at 10 am, to announce the Trinidad & Tobago National Culinary Team 2016. CEO of the...
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The privilege of service
My name is Robert Alexander Kendal Lee and I fought Ebola in Liberia.I am fifth-generation Trinidadian, descended from people who arrived from Canton, a small town outside Paris and either Northern...
View ArticleAbout human and intellectual property rights
Ajay Baball Student, Hugh Wooding Law SchoolWe hear about “human rights” regularly and we seem to know a couple of them. The right to life; the right to liberty; the right to freedom of expression. But...
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ILO director: No quick recovery for Caribbean economies
Though the current downswing in the economic fortunes of Latin American and Caribbean countries cannot rate in shock value against the global, economic “heart-attack” of 2007-2008, for some it can...
View ArticlePlanning for the next 25 years
A cursory examination of the industrial development of this country has shown that for the last 60 years, there have been major structural shifts in this country’s revenue generators that occur in...
View ArticleMickey Mouse running Child Guidance North Clinic?
As a parent of special needs children and the president of the Autism Parents Association of Trinidad & Tobago (APATT), I receive a lot of positive feedback from parents about the Child Guidance...
View ArticleKublalsingh’s essay should be required reading
If I were still in the classroom, Wayne Kublalsingh’s essay, entitled The ethnic of Carnival, published in Saturday’s Guardian, would be required reading. And because it is such a gem of an article, a...
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Destination: Texas?
Three rock bands from T&T have the chance to perform next month, at one of the biggest music events in the world, the annual South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. However, as the...
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