Jamaica denies U-17 Women Concacaf spot
This country’s Under-17 Women Soca Warriors missed out on a spot at next year’s Concacaf Women’s Finals to be held in St George’s, Grenada, March 3-13 after going under to rivals Jamaica, 1-0 in the...
View ArticleWilliams, Whitfield reach Tobago vball quarters
Top T&T men’s beach volleyball pair, Daneil Williams and Fabien Whitfield advanced to the quarterfinals for the third straight tournament when round-robin pool play ended at the seventh and final...
View Article‘Lil’ Bravo’s confidence boosted by award
Humbled! That’s how West Indies and T&T left-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler Darren Michael Bravo has responded to the T&T Cricket (TTCB) decision to name him as its International...
View ArticleSolozano hits century for Red Force
When it is your day, it is your day and Jeremy Solozano found it was his yesterday, as he recovered from two dropped catches to record a century to give T&T a first innings score of 271 on the...
View ArticleWaugh: Leadership, T20s to blame for WI decline
SYDNEY—Successful former Australia captain Steve Waugh has blamed poor leadership and the lure of global Twenty20 tournaments for the demise of West Indies cricket. Speaking in Bangkok at a global...
View ArticleLatapy quietly confident about Warriors World Cup chances
Former Soca Warriors footballer and head coach Russell Latapy is optimistic about this country’s chances of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but does not want the team to get complacent and...
View ArticleForbes scores winner as Women Warriors top CFU Olympic qualifiers
Karyn Forbes got the lone goal as T&T Women Soca Warriors battled past Puerto Rico 1-0 to top their Caribbean Football Unions Olympic Qualifiers at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva on Friday...
View ArticleMoonilal to stage protest march, Kamla plans to sue
The political arena is heating up as Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and the Opposition United National Congress (UNC) clash over the legality of the new reduction to the qualifying salary for accessing...
View Article‘Well-to-do must pay their own way’
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says it is financially impossible to continue to provide state-subsidised houses for high-income earners. Rowley, speaking at the key handover ceremony at Chaconia...
View ArticleLeave it in God’s hands
Do not seek revenge, leave it in the hands of God. That was the advice given to the parents and, in particular, the father of Keyra Singh who was gunned down as she slept in the family’s Good Session,...
View ArticleCreative TT CEO fired by phone
Ria Karim, the daughter of former minister of tertiary education and skills training Fazal Karim, was fired by phone on Friday as CEO of the T&T Creative Industries Company Ltd (Creative TT).Sunday...
View Article‘Asia-Marie playing with angels’
Baby Asia-Marie Small who died on November 9 is in heaven and will not have to account for any sins. These were the words of comfort offered to her parents, 19-year-old Chelsea Robinson and Brian...
View Article‘I nearly joined Isis’
Thirteen years after Umar Abdullah, leader of Waajihatul Islaamiyyah, also known as The Islamic Front, was sought by US and British Intelligence for supporting al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and jihad (holy...
View ArticlePeople unhappy with govt’s silence on crime and food prices
Government’s silence on crime and rising food prices in T&T is a cause for concern among the population says Vasant Bharath, former opposition senator and minister of food production under the PP...
View ArticleMoonilal: Stop bullying candidates, supporters
Candidate for the UNC political leadership post Dr Roodal Moonilal is calling on his opponents in the party’s internal election to stop bullying hopeful candidates and their supporters.Moonilal was...
View Article2,500 cases for Children’s Authority
Director of the Children’s Authority of T&T, Dr Shariffa Ali-Abdullah, says more than 2,500 cases have been received, inclusive of more than 150 emergency cases.She said the recent placement of the...
View ArticleNo million-dollar houses built under my watch
Former Housing Development Corporation (HDC) chairman Rabindra Moonan yesterday said there were never any multi-million dollar government-sudsidised houses built under his watch at the state...
View ArticleKamla should steer clear of internal electoral process
Kamla Persad-Bissessar is continuing her double-speak on national issues.On the one hand, she is challenging the fairness of the Government’s decision to remove eligibility to public housing for...
View ArticleTransport minister should address hike in fares
This is an open letter to the Honourable Minister of Transport Mr Fitzgerald Hinds urging him to set up a committee on behalf of the Government that will negotiate the rise in transportation fares. It...
View ArticlePreserving T&T’s economy for future generations
With the recent passing of the budget by the Government for fiscal 2016, citizens must begin to seriously consider the key issues facing the nation as we will eventually approach a situation of...
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