The Skyfall from Timbuktu, with Paddington and a Straw Boyhood
1. Timbuktu: This Mauritanian film—from the Northwestern Islamic Republic, not the Indian Ocean tourist destination—is a clear, unimpeachable winner. A fictional film based on the hardest fact...
View ArticleReforestation workers receive more salaries
National Reforestation workers have so far received five of the seven outstanding fortnight payments which was able to bring some relief over the Christmas holidays from some.The money was enough to...
View ArticleWhose Wars is it now?
Last week I spent two hours and fifteen minutes in a local cinema in a state of deep conflict. On the screen was Star Wars: The Force Awakens (TFA), a film that every fan of the franchise hoped to see...
View Article4 men on $80,000 robbery charges
Four young men were denied bail yesterday when they appeared in court for allegedly robbing two people at gunpoint a few days before Christmas.Donny Edwards, Akinda Reid, Kion Paul and Devon Raymond...
View ArticleOnward to a sustainable life
A new year provides us with the drive to start afresh; out with the old and in with the new. With each passing year I am getting closer towards a sustainable life, with less wasted time and energy and...
View ArticleWinchesters replace Cummings and Plaza
WALTER ALIBEYT&T coach Stephen Hart has summoned Shahdon Winchester as the replacement for attacking midfielder Keron Cummings who has been ruled out of the Copa America Centenario qualifier versus...
View ArticleStressed out father turns to cocaine for comfort
Stressed out by his loan payments and by his efforts to assist his pregnant, newly-wed daughter start her home, William Gunness fell into his old habit of using cocaine.Yesterday, Gunness was ordered...
View ArticleInjured Lewis adamant about representing T&T in Rio
Olympic sailor Andrew Lewis spent Christmas Day at the Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, where he is recovering from corrective surgery performed on Monday on his jaw and left...
View ArticleShot footballer: Gunman was after my gold
Doctors have postponed surgery to the right foot of national midfielder Keron Cummings today.Cummings, 27, was shot while returning home from a boat cruise lime around 2 am on Sunday at Bagatelle,...
View ArticleBorel, Cedenio, St Fort in line for TTOC top honours
The first People’s Choice Award will be distributed today when the T&T Olympic Committee (TTOC) hosts its 18th Annual Olympic Committee Gala at the Port-of-Spain Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency...
View ArticleWelder shot dead in bed
After spending the Christmas weekend at their father’s Marabella home, two San Juan children awoke to harrowing sight of his bloodied body lying next to them.Police said Roger James, 45, was asleep on...
View ArticleFirst Super50 trial match called off
Inclement weather over the past weekend has dealt a blow to the plans of Trinidad and Tobago senior cricketers and their preparation to retain the Nagico Super50 regional tournament which gets underway...
View ArticleListen to Burmese Whisper
Burmese Whisper finally gets a clear-cut opportunity in the Maiden Auction Stakes over five furlongs of Southwell fibresand today and I’ll bet this Approve colt takes it and gains victory at the ninth...
View ArticleGoodbye to a tough year for sport
The year 2015 is about to say bye bye. What a tumultuous 12 months it has been. For most sport fans, their memorable moments would surround the FIFA scandal and the IAAF revelations regarding Russia....
View ArticleBravo, Brathwaite make Windies smile
MELBOURNE—Stylish left-hander Darren Bravo missed out on a second successive hundred while the enterprising Carlos Brathwaite struck a half-century on debut, as they combined to produce West Indies’...
View ArticleMohammed banned from interviewing WI players
Well-known cricket commentator Fazeer Mohammed has been banned from interviewing any West Indies player currently in Australia taking part in the Sir Frank Worrell cricket series. Mohammed made the...
View ArticleAgostini’s profits crawl, but assets skyrocket
Publicly traded, imported-goods distributor, Agostini’s Ltd, has declared profit after tax of $82.1 million for its year ended September 30, 2015, which is an increase of 2 per cent over the profit for...
View ArticlePM ready to meet unionists
Prime Minister Rowley is willing to meet with trade union leaders and other stakeholders at mutually convenient times in the interest of the development of T&T, the Office of the Prime Minister...
View ArticleCapital city a filthy disgrace
I have been following the issue surrounding the QPS vendors and I would like to put in my two cents.Firstly, I have always enjoyed visiting the Savannah to purchase from a wide variety of food and...
View ArticleChristmas cheer preferred
Last week, including the few days prior to Christmas, I noticed a much larger than usual number of Jehovah Witnesses who encouraged passers-by to partake of their Awake! and Watchtower publications in...
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