Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

DAVID SCARLETT THE TT Football Association (TTFA) officially launched the 2025 season of the TT Women’s League Football (WoLF) on January 18 at the TTFA Technical Centre in Couva. The ceremony presented the 14 teams competing in this season’s league: defending champions Club Sando, Defence Force WFC, Police WFC, Terminix La Horquetta Rangers, MIC Mathura […]

In December, Parliament approved the Elections and Boundaries Commission’s (EBC) 2024 report on constituency boundary changes without amendments. However, the proposed name change of the Arouca/Maloney constituency to Trincity/Maloney has largely gone unnoticed by residents, who expressed little concern, focusing instead on more pressing community issues. Along with the Trincity/Maloney name change, four other constituencies […]

MEMOIRIST and teacher Savitri “Savi” Naipaul Akal died on December 29, 2024, but her legacy and that of her family will live on in her memoir The Naipauls of Nepaul Street, published by Peepal Tree Press in 2018. She was 86 when she died. Naipaul Akal was born in the Lion House in Chaguanas in […]

Outgoing US Ambassador Candace Bond received the Hummingbird Gold Medal at President’s House on January 17, mere days before her tenure ends, and as Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as US president, succeeding Joe Biden under whose administration she was assigned to TT. While some awards can be granted to non-nationals, this […]

SINGING makes Crystal Charles happy. And she loves sharing that joy with others. The smiles on the faces of audience members and seeing them have fun remind her of this all the time. She is now the lead female vocalist of the Brass 2 The World Band and is looking forward to a successful Carnival […]

In a January 16 Newsday article entitled Rowley bids media farewell: Please don’t forget me, Dr Keith Rowley recounts how, on visiting his Goodwood Park home, a book he won as a boy in a public speaking contest in Tobago fell off the shelf. Unfortunately, the article did not state the book’s title, but I […]

A woman was shot by a stray bullet during a high-speed chase and shootout between police and car thieves along the Beetham Highway shortly after 5.30 pm on January 18. Initial reports said police were alerted about a stolen vehicle, which was taken from Bon Air, Arouca by armed men. Officers on patrol spotted the […]

A man who was hospitalised after being set on fire in Tobago more than a week ago has died. Djan Melville, 30, had been warded at the Port of Spain General Hospital on January 17. He was set on fire in Bon Accord on January 8. Around 8.15 pm, police at the Crown Point Police […]

THE 2025 Panorama season is on its way and the kids are getting in on the action. The preliminaries of the schools’ competition kicked off on January 16. There are 34 primary schools and 24 secondary schools vying for top spots. The finals take place on February 2 at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of […]

A SERIES of strategic operations in the Southern Division on January 17 has led to the arrest of 13 people for various offences, including kidnappings and robberies. A police statement on January 18 said the exercises were part of a co-ordinated initiative under the state of emergency (SoE) operations, targeting priority offenders. It was aimed […]