The Warriors must show their motion
With the year 2015 behind us all, the search for an exciting 2016 is facing the Soca Warriors. The general consensus regarding the improvement of the team has been given a good rating, which means that...
View ArticleHayden Lee’s Christmas present
Hayden Lee, 49, has come from far. DR remembers when, more than 15 years ago, he was the “bobolee” of the coterie of top class chess players who regularly practised on the tables of Lara Promenade on...
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N/E Stars hires coach Russell
Sacked Central FC coach Ross Russell was this week, hired by Sangre Grande outfit North East Stars where he will serve as the head coach. Roland Clarke, who took over at the helm of the team earlier...
View ArticleGayle—a real cricket ‘player’
I really wanted to start off the New Year with an article on a topic filled with positivity and promise, but alas! I cannot resist this one. It just begs for commentary. Once again, Facebook has not...
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Bandit kills man after getting no loot
A Valencia man who refused the request of an armed bandit to pass over his cash, jewelry and cellphone was shot and killed on Wednesday night after the bandit locked his wife, child and friend in...
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‘Warriors’ hunt historic Copa spot
T&T’s Soca Warriors will have it all to play for when they face off with Haiti in a win or nothing Copa America Centenario qualifying match at the Estadio Rommel Fernandez from 6:30pm (TT time)...
View ArticleLewis, Emrit leave Force fighting
Showing that their recent stint in Bangladesh was worthwhile, Evin Lewis and Rayad Emrit guided T&T Red Force to a fighting score of 221 in their opening match of the 2016 Nagico Super50 series at...
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Holder blanks victory chance
SYDNEY—West Indies captain Jason Holder says he rejected a proposal from his opposite number Steve Smith to open up the third and final Test with a dramatic last-day run chase, because he did not...
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I begged for my life
Chutney soca artiste Samraj “Rikki Jai” Jaimungal had to beg for his life after a gunman who shot at him and missed kept the loaded gun pointed at his waist for approximately three of the most...
View ArticleDocs involved in C-section death suspended
The Tobago Regional Health Authority Board (TRHA) has suspended the doctors who were involved in the surgery to Rose Gordon, 35, of Charlotteville, who died on New Year’s Day after delivering her baby...
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Probe thwarted as WASA fire re-ignites
Investigations into the cause of the blaze at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) St Joseph headquarters have stalled because of a re-ignition of the fire on Wednesday afternoon.Fire Services...
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Cuffie: Cabinet thorough in making pick
Cabinet yesterday agreed to the appointment of Col George Robinson as the new director of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA).Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie made the announcement during...
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SIS out to stop NGC injunction
Super Industrial Services (SIS) has moved to get an injunction freezing $180 million of its assets removed. On Monday, lawyers representing the company and its associate company, Rain Forest Resorts...
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Jit Samaroo is dead
Candice Andrews-Brumant, captain of nine-time Panorama champion bp Renegades Steel Orchestra, said even though members of the band accepted that death was inevitable for its celebrated arranger Dr Jit...
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Minister mum on opening of Couva hospital
Media questions on the status of the Couva Children’s Hospital at yesterday’s post-Cabinet media conference were dismissed by Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie as “Opposition questions,” which he...
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Deputy mayor: Politics behind drain protest
The United National Congress (UNC) internal elections may be over but the rivalry between slates which supported Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her contender, Dr Roodal Moonilal, may not...
View ArticleSwine flu scare... ‘Don’t capitalise on fear of citizens’
While news of the fifth confirmed H1N1 (swine flu) death swept the country yesterday, there has been a call for companies and medical institutions not to capitalise on the fear of citizens.This comes...
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Jit was a dreamer and practical man
During his lifetime, pan icon Dr Jit Sukha Samaroo straddled the “delicate balance between dreamer and practical man.”This, according to his daughter Amrita in a moving tribute read by Hollick Rajkumar...
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Pantrinbago gets $30m, biggest slice of the pie
Chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Kenny Da Silva says it is time the commission raises its own funds and not depend on the public purse to stage the greatest show on earth.When...
View ArticleCops rake in $43m from bad drivers
President of Arrive Alive Sharon Inglefield says while there has been a 12 per cent decrease in the number of road deaths in 2015, the fact that more older people were dying on the roads is a cause for...
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