Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

SINGING SONIA captured the hearts of the audience and judges with her song The Weaker Sex, earning her a standing ovation and the coveted National Calypso Queen title. The competition hosted by the National Women’s Action Committee, took place at Queen’s Hall, Port of Spain on February 9. The second-place spot went to Kerine “Tiny” […]

REIGNING Calypso Monarch and seven-time Soca Monarch (power and groovy) Machel Montano will headline the list of contenders for the Chutney Soca title to be held at Skinner Park on March 1. The announcement was made on Monday by Southex CEO George Singh, promoter of the of bmobile’s CSM 30th Anniversary Show. Singh said due […]

CRICKET West Indies (CWI) has introduced term limits for the top positions of president and vice-president after a Special Meeting of members of CWI was held in Trinidad on February 9. A CWI media release on February 10 said that “its full member shareholders have officially approved a historic set of governance reforms.” “At the […]

BURLY Jamaican-based central defender Josiah Trimmingham went from hero to zero for the Soca Warriors as they played to a 1-1 draw with Jamaica in a friendly at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex, Kingston on February 9. Trimmingham, who represents Montego Bay United in the Jamaican Premier League, gave Trinidad and Tobago the lead with […]

The Tobago People’s Party (TPP) has selected retired assistant fire chief David Thomas as its candidate for Tobago East in the THA elections, constitutionally due in 2025. TPP held a marathon screening session for potential candidates for both Tobago seats on February 6, at Shaw Park Cultural Complex. Thomas got the committee’s nod over five […]

The United National Congress (UNC) is mourning the loss of former chairman of the Penal/Debe Regional Corporation (PDRC) and one of the party’s founding members, Premchand Sookoo. Sookoo, 77, died on Sunday February 9, from a suspected heart attack. In a statement on February 10, UNC Political Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she was deeply saddened […]

It didn’t take long for Jamaica dancehall artiste Beenie Man (Moses Davis) to walk back comments about the popular local street food, doubles. Speaking on a US podcast, Mr Davis declared that while TT was his second favourite country, he did not eat doubles “because dogs did not eat it.” Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Amery […]

Debbie Jacob I LOVED every subject in school except for mathematics, so if you had told me 55 years ago that a maths teacher would shape my future in unimaginable ways, I would have laughed and dismissed any possibility of that ever happening. Fortunately, I wasn’t clairvoyant, and I had no idea that anyone in […]

BitDepth#1497 Mark Lyndersay THE MORNING session of the TT Internet Governance Forum (TTIGF) on January 31 was supposed to be an online discussion of cyberbullying, but it turned into something else entirely. According to Raj Ramdass, director of Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC), a Penal-based technology learning initiative, “The original set-up involved multiple […]

Fr Martin Sirju WORLD Interfaith Harmony Week was celebrated from February 1-7. The week is set aside by the United Nations since 2010 to focus on the importance of interfaith relations and what we can do as a body to pray and work together to enhance peace, foster dialogue, undertake joint projects, and help save […]