Canada Soccer has named the 20 players who will represent Canada at the CONCACAF U-20 Women’s Championship in Trinidad and Tobago, which serves as the qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018 to be held later in the year. The tournament running from January 17 to January 28 will see Canada, […]
Clyde McNeil, widely known promoter of Caribbean music who owned Club Trinidad, died at hospital in Tobago on January 3 last. He was 69. Friends of the promoter said that he had been ailing with kidney problems and high blood pressure McNeil who came to Canada in 1966, worked as a lab technician at the […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -Trinidad and Tobago will get its first female President later this month. Madam Justice Paula-Mae Weekes, a Court of Appeal judge in the Turks and Caicos Islands, has been nominated to succeed Anthony Carmona as the next head of state. On Monday the Opposition yesterday gave approval for the Government’s sole […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former President of Trinidad and Tobago Professor George Maxwell Richards died at hospital here on Monday night. He was 86. A source close to the family said Richards was taken to hospital on Monday night after suffering a heart attack. Richards who was a former principal of the University of […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – After a hiatus spanning several years, mas’ icon Peter Minshall is back on the Trinidad Carnival scene. Minshall, well known internationally for his spectacular and sometimes macabre presentations, is producing The Eyes of God for Trinidad Carnival 2018. It’s a sailor band that will be accompanied by the Exodus steelband. […]
PORT OF SPAIN – Soca artistes Machel Montano and Kernel Roberts were granted TT$50 000 bail each after the Court of Appeal here on Friday ordered a retrial in their case dating back to 2007. The court allowed the appeal by Montano and Roberts, the son of the late calypsonian, Lord Kitchener, against their convictions […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad— A doctor in Trinidad has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a newborn baby — five months after the infant’s corpse was found in a freezer at his office. Dr Ronald Budhooram was denied bail when he appeared in the magistrates’ court last week but his attorneys later applied […]
Betty John who created carnival history in Trinidad by winning both the national carnival queen contest in Port of Spain and the local queen contest in her hometown, San Fernando, in 1962, died at Bridgepoint hospital in Toronto on November 17 last. She was 75. Her son, Joel, said his mother who suffered from diabetes […]
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuban leaders ended their sixth summit in Antigua on Friday reiterating calls for the region to be declared a zone of peace and urging the United States to lift the decades old trade and economic embargo on Havana. In addition, the leaders of the 15-member group and Cuba […]
A Brampton, Ontario resident, Vishnu Narine, was killed in his native Trinidad and Tobago last week Friday, during his vacation with his wife in the twin-island republic. The body of the 56-year-old Narine was found on a gravel road, with what appeared to be gunshot wounds. The police in Trinidad and Tobago believe he was […]
