Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

SOUTH East held off a strong allround performance from Fatima College student Kaiden Pollard as they got a gripping 12-run win against North in the final of TT Cricket Board’s Under-15 Interzone competition at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain, Couva on February 26. South East won the toss and batted first, getting to a […]

A motorist and his passenger were robbed in Moruga after bandits blocked the road with burnt logs. The 37-year-old electrician told police the incident happened around midday on February 26 while he was driving his silver Nissan Tiida along Penal Rock Road, with his 37-year-old female friend. The victim said he saw two burnt logs […]

THE EDITOR: The Minister of Finance has said that the idea behind the Revenue Authority is not to go after the “small fry,” but to be able to tackle the “big fish.” Respectfully, this is naïve. Empowering of tax collection as an executive exercise can fall into the hands of the same big fish when […]

Jerome Teelucksingh THIS YEAR is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. It was a conflict that spanned 1954-1975. There was a racial dimension to this war which is sometimes identified. In 1961, the US began sending troops to Vietnam. And, by 1969, approximately 550,000 American troops had been sent to defeat […]

IN A FEW weeks’ time, on March 15, it will be the Ides of March. It is a date of huge symbolic significance, being the day on which Julius Caesar’s fate was sealed. The very next day, Keith Rowley, 75, will leave politics. The Prime Minister has selected a moment for his departure that could […]

THE EDITOR: Talk about being kicked when you are down. Given that the nation was enthralled by the detention, arrest and charge of the first black female police commissioner, I am still waiting to hear from one of the many women’s groups to defend the sister. Indeed, as is the custom, not even the PNM […]

Voice sings, “They don’t want me in their party,” in his phenomenal pan song Too Own Way, which is due to be performed by not one but two bands at Panorama on March 1. Part of why the song resonates is because it taps into the sense of exclusion often seen at Carnival. That sense […]

Wind shear is a sudden change in wind speed and direction over a short distance in the atmosphere. It can occur at different levels of the atmosphere, but it is most dangerous at low levels. Wind shear has caused numerous aircraft accidents resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives. It is defined as a […]

Trinidad and Tobago’s women’s Under-20 team bore the cost of their errors in a 12-0 thrashing against Canada in their final Concacaf Women’s U20 Qualifier match at Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva on February 25. The result kept TT (six pts) in second place on the Group E standings while Canada (nine pts) affirmed pole […]

Charges against two former employees of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) and a police officer have been dropped by the court because the prosecution failed to comply with court directives, including the timely preparation and prosecution of the case. Master Kimitra Gray freed Ian Albert Ezekiel Brown, pastor of the Jerusalem Bride Church and self-proclaimed […]