Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

TRINIDAD and Tobago’s indigenous women leaders were recognised on March 7 by the Embassy of Mexico in commemoration of International Women’s Day, which was celebrated on March 8. Cacica of the Warao community Anicia Ortancia Benjamin and indigenous stalwart Jackie Bernadine Khan were recognised for their contribution, at the Mexican Embassy on Hayes Street, St […]

THA SECRETARY of Education, Research and Technology Zorisha Hackett has urged young women to resist societal structures that limit their potential to excel. She was addressing a symposium to commemorate International Women’s Day at the Division of Community Development, Youth Development and Sport, Glen Road Scarborough, Tobago, on March 7. International Women’s Day is observed […]

TWO VERY different stories about Sea Lots have been told in recent days. There is the story of Yung Bredda’s Carnival season rise, culminating in him becoming the people’s choice at Dimanche Gras on March 2. And there is the story of crime, paraded to the office of acting Commissioner of Police Junior Benjamin by […]

Dara E Healy Jouvé baré yo Pa lévé lamen asou yo …Jump in the line and smack yuh lips Roll yuh eyes, hold yuh head And shake yuh hips Jouvé baré yo Pa lévé lamen asou yo – Jouvé, Baré Yo, Roaring Lion AS I WAS heading out for Jouvay (J’Ouvert) I picked up a […]

THE EDITOR: This year International Women’s Day falls on a Saturday, a day when the noise of corporate PR campaigns, performative speeches, and token gestures can take a back seat. No forced breakfasts, no panel discussions where the same voices echo empty promises, no hashtags masking inaction. Instead, today is for real reflection – a […]

A five-wicket haul and man of the match performance from North’s Sanjiv Bachu was not enough, as South emerged victorious by 63 runs over their opponents in the North/South Under-15 Classic, played at the National Cricket Centre in Couva on March 7. North’s captain Kaiden Pollard won the toss and chose to field first. South […]

TT RED Force resume the final day’s play of their round four West Indies Four-Day Championship tie with a lead of 254 runs with one wicket in hand, and West Indies Academy still to bat a second time on March 8. After concluding day two on 162/5 on March 6, in response to TT’s first […]

THE EDITOR: The unpredictability of Donald Trump’s White House is both its defining trait and its most destabilising force. From day one Trump’s brash, erratic leadership left allies, adversaries, and Americans struggling to decipher his true intentions. For him, unpredictability isn’t accidental – it is a deliberate strategy honed through decades in New York real […]

Songwriter, producer and artiste Kernal “Kitch” Roberts believes he and Road March champ 2025 Machel Montano will earn that title again next year, as he and Montano are once again working together. Montano tied the late Aldwyn “Kitchener” Roberts’s record of having the most Road March titles this year. He won his 11th title with […]

Annaya Baird, winner of Coco Velvet International Top Model 2024 contest made her international runway debut at Milan Autumn/Winter 2025 Fashion Week on March 1. The statuesque graduate of Bishop East High School walked for Florence-based fashion label Ermanno Scervino, making her Tobago’s first fashion model to walk at Paris or Milan Fashion Week, a […]