Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

PHASE four of the repairs to the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago, is scheduled to be completed in March, a Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SporTT) statement said on February 5. The stadium was closed on December 24 for renovations, which include repairs to the plumbing system, main pavilion, the changing rooms and […]

FROM March 4, Trinidad and Tobago Premier Football League (TTPFL) tier one defences will have another attacking weapon to contend with when they meet current league leaders Defence Force, as forward Reon Moore is set to join the Defence Force team after a stint in Canada. Moore, 28, signed to Canadian Premier League outfit Pacific […]

KING of soca Machel Montano is planning to deliver a performance of “Machel Monday proportions” in south at Mega the Concert, his only show in south Trinidad for Carnival 2025. Mega will be held at Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba, on February 7. On his return to south, despite shelling down Skinner Park in San […]

A MAN of African descent was found beheaded near Damian’s Bay in Blanchisseuse on the afternoon of February 6. A senior police source said the man’s hands were tied behind his back and his head was cut off. He said the facts of the incident were still uncertain. If classified as a murder however, this […]

The Court of Appeal has begun hearing appeals filed by Financial Investigations Unit (FIU) director Nigel Stoddard and the Attorney General against a High Court ruling that found the FIU acted unconstitutionally in an attempt to access private banking information of former police commissioner Gary Griffith and his wife Nicole Dyer-Griffith. The appeal also challenges […]

ASKED by a reporter on February 3 if there is a capacity deficit in dealing with fatal incidents in the oil and gas industry in the wake of the 2022 Paria diving tragedy and the recent collapse of Rig 110, Energy Minister Stuart Young was unequivocal. “The answer is no,” Mr Young said, “because you […]

TREVOR SUDAMA MANY comments, both partisan and independent, have expressed consternation at the inappropriateness, disconnect and irrelevance of the statement made by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar purporting to give the reasons for the defeat in the recent US presidential elections of the Democratic Party’s candidate. I, too, am of the view that the statement was […]

Jerome Teelucksingh FEBRUARY 7 is the 100th anniversary of TT’s first general election. Voting patterns and issues in the 1925 election have continued today to influence the electorate and strategies of political parties. In the early elections of 1925, 1928 and 1933, the race factor was obvious in the electoral districts of St Patrick and […]

THE EDITOR: If you know your child needs extra lessons to pass an exam, please, if you can afford it, hire an outsider from somewhere else to give your child the opportunity to understand a new teacher who may explain the lessons differently. In case it is a scam to make extra money, the same […]

War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Whether it is a military conflict between countries, a clash between gangs or a “cold” one, wars, more often than not, result in more pain and suffering for all, rather than gains. Since US president Donald Trump announced a swathe of tariffs to be imposed on countries […]