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    Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”

    Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”

    Saturday 30 August 2025
    • Auvray, Payne, Ranjitsingh among T&T call-ups in Yorke’s 35-man WCQ longlist

      Auvray, Payne, Ranjitsingh among T&T call-ups in Yorke’s 35-man WCQ longlist

      Friday 29 August 2025
    • Back from the abyss: Tyra Gittens on hurdling grief, doubt and panic attacks to the podium

      Back from the abyss: Tyra Gittens on hurdling grief, doubt and panic attacks to the podium

      Wednesday 27 August 2025
    • Vaneisa: They have us standing tall—from Viv to Rudder and back

      Vaneisa: They have us standing tall—from Viv to Rudder and back

      Monday 25 August 2025
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    Noble: Nation-building musings—is T&T under construction or destruction?

    Noble: Nation-building musings—is T&T under construction or destruction?

    Saturday 30 August 2025
    • Dear Editor: T&T’s political parties are uninspiring; but here is how to change that…

      Dear Editor: T&T’s political parties are uninspiring; but here is how to change that…

      Thursday 28 August 2025
    • Dear Editor: T&T’s reckless unilateral stance on US-Venezuela standoff is a betrayal of Caricom

      Dear Editor: T&T’s reckless unilateral stance on US-Venezuela standoff is a betrayal of Caricom

      Tuesday 26 August 2025
    • Shameful, preposterous and disrespectful to Caricom! MSJ slams PM’s stance on US naval deployment

      Shameful, preposterous and disrespectful to Caricom! MSJ slams PM’s stance on US naval deployment

      Sunday 24 August 2025
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    Josie vs cancer: What they don’t tell you about cancer diagnosis, treatment and insurance

    Josie vs cancer: What they don’t tell you about cancer diagnosis, treatment and insurance

    Saturday 9 August 2025
    • Dear Editor: Credit were it’s due; Minister Padarath is bringing progress to Wasa

      Dear Editor: Credit were it’s due; Minister Padarath is bringing progress to Wasa

      Wednesday 6 August 2025
    • Vaneisa: Bammy on the brain—adventures in cooking

      Vaneisa: Bammy on the brain—adventures in cooking

      Tuesday 5 August 2025
    • Noble: Staying alive—addressing suicidal thoughts

      Noble: Staying alive—addressing suicidal thoughts

      Saturday 2 August 2025
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    Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”

    Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”

    Saturday 30 August 2025
    • Dear Editor: Girls’ football development should start in primary schools—not in High Performance programme

      Dear Editor: Girls’ football development should start in primary schools—not in High Performance programme

      Thursday 21 August 2025
    • Nine years since TTFA started its elite/high performance model, is T&T’s youth football better or worse off?

      Nine years since TTFA started its elite/high performance model, is T&T’s youth football better or worse off?

      Wednesday 13 August 2025
    • SSFL 25 Premier fixtures: Fatima, Benedict’s skip opening weekend while Eve-led ‘Naps’ spy chance

      SSFL 25 Premier fixtures: Fatima, Benedict’s skip opening weekend while Eve-led ‘Naps’ spy chance

      Saturday 9 August 2025
    • Dear Editor: Did TTFA breach own safeguarding rules with U-15 Boys troubling travel ordeal?

      Dear Editor: Did TTFA breach own safeguarding rules with U-15 Boys troubling travel ordeal?

      Wednesday 6 August 2025
    • Dear Editor: What every parent, coach, and young athlete should know about OSD

      Dear Editor: What every parent, coach, and young athlete should know about OSD

      Wednesday 30 July 2025
    • Dear Editor: How to build fitter, smarter and more resilient athletes

      Dear Editor: How to build fitter, smarter and more resilient athletes

      Thursday 10 July 2025
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    Political commentary rules as Helon dethrones Machel; Live Wire marks Calypso finals

    Political commentary rules as Helon dethrones Machel; Live Wire marks Calypso finals

    Monday 3 March 2025
    • Live Wire: Crimson Sky on Plantation as Regents vote on Party’s future while Opposition plots response

      Live Wire: Crimson Sky on Plantation as Regents vote on Party’s future while Opposition plots response

      Thursday 9 January 2025
    • Dem judges mudda can’t (be) serious? Live Wire reviews 2024 Calypso Monarch show

      Dem judges mudda can’t (be) serious? Live Wire reviews 2024 Calypso Monarch show

      Monday 12 February 2024
    • Piggy, pussy and politics: Live Wire on Watson Duke’s bizarre local govt campaign launch

      Piggy, pussy and politics: Live Wire on Watson Duke’s bizarre local govt campaign launch

      Thursday 16 February 2023
    • Missing the Faris for the trees? Mr Live Wire gets another political lecture from a mysterious man

      Missing the Faris for the trees? Mr Live Wire gets another political lecture from a mysterious man

      Thursday 17 March 2022
    • Protesters push back against ‘little prick’; Live Wire alarmed as tension boils over at QPS

      Protesters push back against ‘little prick’; Live Wire alarmed as tension boils over at QPS

      Sunday 16 January 2022
    • Live Wire sheds a tear as Minister of Hypocrisy uses time-travel to join Boxing Day boat party

      Live Wire sheds a tear as Minister of Hypocrisy uses time-travel to join Boxing Day boat party

      Thursday 30 December 2021
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    Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024

    Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024

    Tuesday 2 July 2024
    • Unplugged: Jereem Richards, Keshorn Walcott and Tyra Gittens speak from the heart

      Unplugged: Jereem Richards, Keshorn Walcott and Tyra Gittens speak from the heart

      Sunday 30 June 2024
    • NGC/NAAATT Jnr & Snr Champs: Aaron Antoine endures tough opening day

      NGC/NAAATT Jnr & Snr Champs: Aaron Antoine endures tough opening day

      Saturday 29 June 2024
    • CYG 2023: T&T sprinter Trevaughn Stewart’s journey from sorrow to success

      CYG 2023: T&T sprinter Trevaughn Stewart’s journey from sorrow to success

      Monday 15 January 2024
    • CYG 2023: T&T’s Janae De Gannes reviews her epic long jump battle

      CYG 2023: T&T’s Janae De Gannes reviews her epic long jump battle

      Friday 12 January 2024
    • CYG 2023: A Journey of Triumph and Inspiration (Video)

      CYG 2023: A Journey of Triumph and Inspiration (Video)

      Tuesday 9 January 2024
    • YEP Rising Stars: Meet Revell Webster

      YEP Rising Stars: Meet Revell Webster

      Tuesday 23 August 2022
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  • Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”
  • Auvray, Payne, Ranjitsingh among T&T call-ups in Yorke’s 35-man WCQ longlist
  • Dear Editor: T&T’s political parties are uninspiring; but here is how to change that…
  • Back from the abyss: Tyra Gittens on hurdling grief, doubt and panic attacks to the podium
  • Dear Editor: T&T’s reckless unilateral stance on US-Venezuela standoff is a betrayal of Caricom
  • Vaneisa: They have us standing tall—from Viv to Rudder and back
  • Valencia, Horizon and Phoenix claim Laventille Netball League titles
  • Shameful, preposterous and disrespectful to Caricom! MSJ slams PM’s stance on US naval deployment
  • Daly Bread: T&T must press on with New York pan business and commercialisation of steelpan
Noble: Nation-building musings—is T&T under construction or destruction?
Saturday 30 August 2025

Noble: Nation-building musings—is T&T under construction or destruction?

“On August 31, 1962, a country will be free, a miniature state will be established, but a society an…

Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”
Saturday 30 August 2025

Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”

Sport administrator, businessman and football coach Shem Alexander has pleaded guilty to “conspiracy…

Auvray, Payne, Ranjitsingh among T&T call-ups in Yorke’s 35-man WCQ longlist
Friday 29 August 2025

Auvray, Payne, Ranjitsingh among T&T call-ups in Yorke’s 35-man WCQ longlist

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dwight Yorke named four uncapped players i…

Dear Editor: T&T’s political parties are uninspiring; but here is how to change that…
Thursday 28 August 2025

Dear Editor: T&T’s political parties are uninspiring; but here is how to change that…

“[…] Madam Prime Minister 2.0 I suggest the development of an Innovation/Creative fund to encourage …

Back from the abyss: Tyra Gittens on hurdling grief, doubt and panic attacks to the podium
Wednesday 27 August 2025

Back from the abyss: Tyra Gittens on hurdling grief, doubt and panic attacks to the podium

Tyra Gittens-Spotsville’s bronze medal at the 2025 North American, Central American and Caribbean Ch…

Dear Editor: T&T’s reckless unilateral stance on US-Venezuela standoff is a betrayal of Caricom
Tuesday 26 August 2025

Dear Editor: T&T’s reckless unilateral stance on US-Venezuela standoff is a betrayal of Caricom

“[…] The Government’s position, as expounded by the Prime Minister and the Foreign Affairs Minister,…

Vaneisa: They have us standing tall—from Viv to Rudder and back
Monday 25 August 2025

Vaneisa: They have us standing tall—from Viv to Rudder and back

I don’t know about you, but for years I have listened to David Rudder’s music on an almost daily bas…

Valencia, Horizon and Phoenix claim Laventille Netball League titles
Monday 25 August 2025

Valencia, Horizon and Phoenix claim Laventille Netball League titles

Horizon, Phoenix Phury and Valencia Eagles will have some silverware to show for their exertions ove…

Shameful, preposterous and disrespectful to Caricom! MSJ slams PM’s stance on US naval deployment
Sunday 24 August 2025

Shameful, preposterous and disrespectful to Caricom! MSJ slams PM’s stance on US naval deployment

“[…] Today the government is putting us on the wrong side of history and in support of a colonial an…

Daly Bread: T&T must press on with New York pan business and commercialisation of steelpan
Sunday 24 August 2025

Daly Bread: T&T must press on with New York pan business and commercialisation of steelpan

World Steelpan Day falls in August, which was a month designated as Steelpan Month in Trinidad and T…

View Point

Noble: Nation-building musings—is T&T under construction or destruction?

Dear Editor: T&T’s political parties are uninspiring; but here is how to change that…

Dear Editor: T&T’s reckless unilateral stance on US-Venezuela standoff is a betrayal of Caricom

Shameful, preposterous and disrespectful to Caricom! MSJ slams PM’s stance on US naval deployment

Daly Bread: T&T must press on with New York pan business and commercialisation of steelpan

Dear Editor: Rights come with responsibilities—T&T must grasp social contract to grow as mature nation

MSJ: Hypocritical USA must not escalate tensions in south Caribbean—focus on Netanyahu instead!

Dear Editor: Gov’t gave criminals symbolic win by cancelling Independence Day parade

Dear Editor: If TTPS “neutralised” threat that caused SOE, where are the arrests? Where’s the rocket launcher?

Volley

  • Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”

    Sport administrator, businessman and football coach Shem Alexander has pleaded guilty to “conspiracy to smuggle …

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  • Auvray, Payne, Ranjitsingh among T&T call-ups in Yorke’s 35-man WCQ longlist

  • Back from the abyss: Tyra Gittens on hurdling grief, doubt and panic attacks to the podium

  • Vaneisa: They have us standing tall—from Viv to Rudder and back

  • Valencia, Horizon and Phoenix claim Laventille Netball League titles

Youth Football

  • Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”

    Sport administrator, businessman and football coach Shem Alexander has pleaded guilty to “conspiracy to smuggle …

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  • Dear Editor: Girls’ football development should start in primary schools—not in High Performance programme

  • Nine years since TTFA started its elite/high performance model, is T&T’s youth football better or worse off?

  • SSFL 25 Premier fixtures: Fatima, Benedict’s skip opening weekend while Eve-led ‘Naps’ spy chance

  • Dear Editor: Did TTFA breach own safeguarding rules with U-15 Boys troubling travel ordeal?

Other Sports

  • Back from the abyss: Tyra Gittens on hurdling grief, doubt and panic attacks to the podium

    Tyra Gittens-Spotsville’s bronze medal at the 2025 North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships (NACAC) …

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  • Valencia, Horizon and Phoenix claim Laventille Netball League titles

  • Laventille Netball League offers hope for future; as Unity and Transcend girls show promise

  • Jereem, Bertrand headline star-studded NAAATT Senior Championships

  • Dear Editor: What every parent, coach, and young athlete should know about OSD

Noble: Nation-building musings—is T&T under construction or destruction?

“On August 31, 1962, a country will be free, a miniature state will be established, but a society and a nation will not have been formed. “After August 31, 1962, the people of Trinidad and Tobago will face the fiercest test in their history—whether they can invest with flesh and …

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Shem pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms; family says US judicial system “loaded the deck”

Sport administrator, businessman and football coach Shem Alexander has pleaded guilty to “conspiracy to smuggle firearms from the United States to Trinidad and Tobago”, according to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office. The outcome of the case was verified by Alexander’s family in Trinidad and Tobago, although both …

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Auvray, Payne, Ranjitsingh among T&T call-ups in Yorke’s 35-man WCQ longlist

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dwight Yorke named four uncapped players in his 35-man long list to face Curaçao at the Hasely Crawford Stadium next Friday. Yorke is expected to select his final squad by next Monday, as the Soca Warriors prepare for the final Concacaf …

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Dear Editor: T&T’s political parties are uninspiring; but here is how to change that…

“[…] Madam Prime Minister 2.0 I suggest the development of an Innovation/Creative fund to encourage our students to promote math, science, and inventors’ competitions with compensations for our normal citizens to bring whatever inventions they have. “The key here is to start an innovation culture because we have a culture …

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Back from the abyss: Tyra Gittens on hurdling grief, doubt and panic attacks to the podium

Tyra Gittens-Spotsville’s bronze medal at the 2025 North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships (NACAC) was more than just a place on the podium—it was a statement of survival. The 27-year-old long jumper’s 6.64m leap in Freeport, Bahamas, earned Trinidad and Tobago’s only medal at the meet, and her first …

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Dear Editor: T&T’s reckless unilateral stance on US-Venezuela standoff is a betrayal of Caricom

“[…] The Government’s position, as expounded by the Prime Minister and the Foreign Affairs Minister, is not neutrality by any diplomatic or regional standard. “[…] Authority without principle, without consultation and without regard for Caricom unity and regional peace is not leadership—it is recklessness masquerading as sovereignty…” The following guest …

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