Appoo wins ‘Join TheTeam’ contest
By a vote of seven to three, Chad Appoo beat out Chenelle Dookeeram for the 11th and final spot for travel to Spain, last Monday, ahead of Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League semi-final match between...
View ArticleForty-two graduate as ambassadors of peace
Forty-two participants in the Ministry of National Security’s Citizens Security Programme Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) recently graduated as the newest ambassadors of...
View ArticleWallace in tight race for Sky Sports top award
T&T’s goal shoot, Samantha Wallace of Hertfordshire Mavericks, is in a two-player battle for the 2016 Sky Sports Vitality Netball Super League Player of the Season in England.The 22-year-old first...
View ArticlePositive Costa Rica vibes for Aubrey
National defender Aubrey David is a regular starter with Costa Rican powerhouse club Deportivo Saprissa, and the former Caledonia AIA player says his decision to join the club in December has turned...
View ArticleTight race for second place in Pro League
With defending champions Central FC set to retain its Digicel T&T Pro League crown, the battle for the all-important runner-up spot to qualify for the 2017/018 Caribbean Football Union Club...
View ArticleCentral wants Pro Bowl as icing on cake
One win away from securing the Digicel Pro League 2015/16 championship and fresh from their Caribbean Footbal Union Club Championship 2016 crowning—repeats from last season—Central FC wants to complete...
View ArticleCaps, B’pore clash for Intercol title
The giant killers of Carapichaima East will face a consistent Barrackpore West outfit when the PowerGen Secondary Schools Intercol T20 boys final bowls off at the National Cricket Centre, Balmain,...
View ArticleGo to School Fete
Viren’s Army wont be a surprise if he causes one in the group three Dee Stakes over an extended ten furlongs of Chester this afternoon, when an eight-strong field offers an outstanding each-way...
View ArticleWalsh among top players in WI coaching course
BRIDGETOWN—Over 20 regional coaches, including former West Indies players, have assembled in Barbados for a high-level coaching programme to be staged over 10 days. Courtney Walsh, the legendary fast...
View ArticleNo decision yet on CPL finals venue
GEORGETOWN—Organisers of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) are disputing statements from top government ministers in Guyana that Trinidad and Tobago have been chosen to host the finals of the CPL....
View ArticleRussell aiming to set high bar
KOLKATA—Global trotting T20 Super star Andre Russell says his ultimate goal is to create a rich legacy in cricket’s shortest format by setting the bar as high as he possibly can.The West Indies...
View ArticleTTFA set to make major changes
WALTER ALIBEYMajor changes are coming to the T&T Football Association (TTFA) and sources say that general secretary Azard Khan is facing the axe, as president David John-Williams begins to flex his...
View ArticleTrafficked takes on the world
Joanne BriggsSince its appearance at the T&T Film Festival last year, the movie Trafficked has been on its own festival tour. A few weeks ago, it was featured at the New Voices in Black Cinema...
View ArticleShiv Shakti dances for mothers
Blink BMobile Shiv Shakti Dance Company Limited will honour survivors of breast cancer this year at its annual Mother’s Day Spectacular. Billed as the biggest event in local Indian dance, the show...
View ArticleEuropean Film Festival celebrates 20th birthday with a bang
The European Film Festival (EFF) - one of the earliest film festivals to launch in T&T - this year celebrates its 20th anniversary, with an exciting line-up of films and a chance to win great door...
View ArticleBar patrons ‘went too far’
Eight days after being beaten during a robbery at a Claxton Bay bar, Curtis Pierre, 16, succumbed to his injuries at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital.Pierre was one of two...
View ArticleWoman describes attacker before death
Police have launched a manhunt for a second suspect in the attempted rape and murder of a 24-year-old Eastern Regional Health Authority employee yesterday.Nerissa Nickey Goora, 24, a clerk at Sangre...
View ArticleClico still insolvent
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday that Clico still has a deficit of close to $1 billion and the insurer’s 2014 after-tax profit of $5.13 billion was just an “accounting transaction” resulting...
View Article$10,000 fine for gun jammers
Police are warning citizens that any attempt to jam their radar signals from speed detection guns with the use of electronic devices is illegal and can cost you ten times the amount of a speeding...
View Article‘Worse than we anticipated’
Director of the Children’s Authority Sharifa Ali-Abdullah yesterday revealed that 5,500 sexual abuse, neglect, physical abuse and lack of care and guardianship cases were reported to the authority in...
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