Foo terror for South Africa
Enter Jonathan Foo, the 19-year-old cricketer who can hit a ball as hard as anybody alive.
Legend has it that when Ellis Edgar “Puss “ Achong, the first and only West Indian cricketer of Chinese descent to play for the regional team bowled an English batsman in 1934, the said Englishman was heard to mutter on [...]
Cricinfo All Star All-Time West Indies Team
From Cricinfo staff
Five players from the all-star West Indies stars of the Eighties have made it to Cricinfo’s West
Indies all-time TEST XI. Read more….
Five players from the all-star West Indies sides of the 80s have made it to
Cricinfo’s West Indies all-time Test XI: Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards, Curtly
Ambrose, Michael Holding and Malcolm Marshall.
Viv Richards was [...]
Calypso cricket vs Reggae on Wednesday
The local boys will have to play harder at home to Jamaica in the Caribbean T20 championships
Trinidad and Tobago, reigning T20 cricket champions, will have to scale another hurdle in defence of their title in their bid for another birth in the Airtel T20 championships, when they meet Zone A leaders Jamaica in the [...]
PNM expected to lose ground in today’s Local Govt polls
In 2003, a mere 38 per cent of the electorate bothered to vote. Today, many families are in North America and elsewhere on vacation.
Early reports indicate that this hastily called Local Government has attracted a large turnout in some polling stations, particularly in the Prime Minister’s Siparia constituency, but voting was slow elsewhere.
Just [...]
Ambassadors Crawfie, Ganga
His Excellency Hasely Crawford!
His Excellency Daren Ganga.
Both sports heroes have been elevated by the new Government to the level of Sports Ambassadors with Ganga, who has led the national cricket team with distinction over the past several years, being given the added assignment of helping bolster the country’s economic profile in some of the cricketing [...]
Umbala back in your ear
The master of mayhem will be back on the airwaves. Anglo-Grenadian Umbala Joseph has joined Robert Amar’s 104.7.
George “Umbala” Joseph is coming back..
Just a couple of months after completing a brief spell with Iwer George’s 91.9 FM, he will be joining Robert Amar’s 104.7 FM talk shop, hosting an all day talk programme . [...]
Requiem for three Trinis
Large turnout for Dennis Pantin at UWI.
Photographer Trevor Hackett, who died recently, narrowly escaped death as a three-year old toddler, 60 years ago, when his uncles, Fitzroy and Hollis, saved him from their collapsing house in Point Fortin.
The modest three-bedroom house, which was being renovated, slipped from its supports and collapsed.
Trevor, 63, [...]
Mary King queen of the new economic model
Mary has been preaching the gospel of an economy driven by local entrepreneurs and skills. Trouble is, local businessmen do not share her vision.
To all appearances, the country will be returning to orthodox economic planning rather than Patrick Manning’s dicey policy of industrialisation based on direct foreign investment in the energy sector.
Irishwoman Mary [...]
Goodbye, Patrick Manning
Keith Rowley, as he warned during the election campaign, will not be placing Manning on court martial. Instead, he wants him honoured for his contribution to Trinidad and Tobago
One week ago, as he addressed the party faithful at the PNM rally at Eddie Hart Grounds, Tacarigua, Patrick Manning repeated his stock cardinal points boast about [...]
No honeymoon for Kamla
Kamla was unable to partake of the eats and drinks at her inauguration yesterday as she had to rush to see about business-flooding in central and south Trinidad.
The People’s Partnership whipped up a mighty political storm that blew away the formidable People’s National Movement (PNM)- but , literally, on day one in office the victors [...]