Passage to poetry
I never appreciated poetry. Perhaps this is one of the drawbacks of my education. I viewed most poems as being akin to cleverly completed word puzzles that demonstrated brilliance through the creative...
View ArticleHarrison credits Saunders’ new system for Central run
Central FC director of operations, Kevin Harrison, says the team’s new playing system under interim coach Dale Saunders is behind its 11-match unbeaten run of the reigning Digicel T&T Pro League...
View ArticleTTOC Long-Term Athlete Development programme begins
In an effort to enhance it chances of attaining its gold of #10orMoreGold2014, the T&T Olympic Committee will commence and 18-month Long-Term Athlete Development LTAD) programme from Thurday.The...
View ArticleUTT, Toco Youths face SUVA volleyball test
Following last weeks impressive serve off of the Flow T&T Volleyball Federation Premier Division League with a double-header at the Central Regional Indoor Sports Arena, Chaguanas, matches will...
View ArticleShak Attack, Heat register semi-final wins
Four players reached double-figures for Valencia Heat as it drew first blood in the opening match of the best-in-three semifinals series of the Men’s National Basketball Championships on Saturday night...
View ArticleFour former winners among 54 nominees
Four-time women’s award recipient Cleopatra Borel is among a quartet of former winners list in a field of 54 athletes (29 men and 25 women) nominated by their respective sporting association for the...
View ArticleAlexander praises team spirit for $240,000 title
Tobagonian Kelshall Alexander says that team spirit from the entire technical staff and players was key to Defence Force capturing the $240,000 winners cheque in the 2015/2016 CNG National Super League...
View ArticleT&TOC to host Marketing and Sport Conference
Founding Editor of Sport Business, Englishman Kevin Roberts will be the feature speaker at the T&T Olympic Committee (T&TOC) Sport Marketing and Business of Sport Conference carded for March 9....
View ArticleScotiabank’s investment pays off at U-19 W Cup
Scotiabank has an extra special reason to celebrate the West Indies Under-19 team’s historic victory at the recent ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Several members of the team who took the region to its...
View ArticleValue with ‘Krystal!’
Zio Gianni should prove a gilt-edged bet in a five-runner Maiden Stakes over twelve furlongs of Wolverhampton Tapeta today, if he stays an extra half mile!On the time-handicap this Lemon Drop Kid colt,...
View ArticleMaking sense of purpose and priority
T&T has an abundance of world class talent and potential. If only we believed in ourselves and not spend too much time focusing on what’s wrong. When life happens and things don’t go the way you...
View ArticleLeg-spinner Lewis is WI interim manager
ST JOHN’S—Former West Indies leg-spinner Rawl Lewis has been appointed interim West Indies team manager for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in India. The 41-year-old, currently a West Indies Cricket...
View ArticleU-19s offer hope for WI revival says Patterson
Kingston—One of the region’s foremost cricket students, PJ Patterson, said the success of the Under-19 team at the recent World Cup offers hope for a revival in West Indies cricket.“It is the sign that...
View ArticleLewis maiden hundred powers Red Force
KINGSTON—Evin Lewis’s maiden first class 100 headlined a convincing T&T Red Force win as they predictably trounced Jamaica Scorpions by eight wickets yesterday.The visitors needed just 55 minutes...
View ArticleTeachers, students were living in fear
Less than a week after police were alerted to a planned gun attack at the Chaguanas North Secondary School, 24 students have been “removed” from classes there.Some of the 24 reportedly hold criminal...
View ArticleBad parenting partly to blame—TTUTA
President of the T&T Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA), Davanand Sinanan, is blaming parenting for the current “dysfunctional and anti-social” behaviour displayed by the nation’s students.He...
View ArticleFIUTT in Senate report: More $$ from T&T going to terrorism
The amount of financial transactions suspected of being linked to terrorist activity has tripled in T&T over 12 months. So said the director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of T&T (FIUTT)...
View ArticleMinistries rallying to help troubled children
Social Development Minister Cherrie-Ann Crichlow-Cockburn says ministries are rallying to assist indiscipline students in schools.She was speaking yesterday at the ministry’s Sowing Empowerment through...
View ArticleDr Tim on PM’s ‘monsters’ remark: He must apologise
Former education minister and Caroni East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh is calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to apologise for referring to the nation’s delinquent children as “monsters.”Participating in...
View ArticleTeens plead guilty to threat charges
Two teenagers of the Chaguanas North Secondary School appeared in court on Monday and yesterday charged with threatening to kill a security guard and threatening to physically harm a teacher.The two...
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