Best: Close first-person encounters; when real calypsonians tell their own stories…
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by Earl Best
37m ago
Shorty would be able to blame any negative feedback from Severe Licking on Baron. Or his informants, Bomber and Cypher. Gypsy’s troubles, however, are of his own making—in more than one sense! In his 1972 For Cane, the Little Black Boy singer complained that Ah really doh know how to rule mih wife. So great ..read more
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SSFL 24: Mucurapo relegated, Trinity East on brink, Speyside fight on
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by Editor
37m ago
East Mucurapo Secondary will join Miracle Ministries Pentecostal High School through the trap door of the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division, as the northern outfit were relegated today. Mucurapo travelled to Signal Hill Secondary needing their first away win since they edged Miracle Ministries 1-0 on Wednesday 25 September. Signal Hill Secondary forward ..read more
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“He will elevate T&T football!” TTFA announces Yorke as new Soca Warriors head coach
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by Editor
12h ago
Dwight Yorke, Trinidad and Tobago’s most celebrated footballer of all time, is the new head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team. The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFA) made the announcement in a press release today. No details were given with regards to the length of Yorke’s contract, remuneration or his ..read more
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You’re mad! On Guyanese accent, rum’s reputation and ‘clinical depression’
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by Charlene Stuart
1d ago
I grew up in Guyana and the earliest memories of my childhood were that my family was rich! The standard I used was this: my now deceased Dad bought us every single piece of wearable merch from then hit song “We are the World”. we lived in a “big house” in what was then a fairly ..read more
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SSFL confirms St Augustine’s seven-point deduction; St Anthony’s go to fourth
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by Editor
2d ago
Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) general secretary Azaad Khan has confirmed a seven-point deduction for St Augustine Secondary for using an unregistered player, Shumba Cudjoe, for four games and a suspended player, Aaden Maharaj, in one outing. All five games—two of which were previously won by St Augustine—are now tabulated as 3-0 wins for their ..read more
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Best: Insider women’s calypso stories and a sweet soca tale of a licking
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by Earl Best
3d ago
Calypso has given us a handful of unforgettable female figures. There is, for example, Kitchener’s Flag Woman and Scrunter’s Woman on the Base, there is David Rudder’s Bahia Girl and Sparrow’s Winer Girl from Princes Town. Not one of those four has a name. But the women I want to begin with all have names ..read more
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SSFL 24: “Zoom Zoom” stars as Benedict’s routs MMPHS; Fatima down Arima
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by Editor
3d ago
No other football team can catch St Benedict’s College now! Whatever their fate in the boardroom, there has been little doubt about which schools has ruled the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) playing fields in 2024. And, this afternoon, the “La Romaine Lions” put an exclamation mark on their form with an 8-0 mauling of ..read more
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SSFL 24: St Augustine lose protest over a second player, face seven point deduction
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by Lasana Liburd
4d ago
St Augustine Secondary have lost their second case before the Secondary School Football League (SSFL) Disciplinary Committee—this time, for using a suspended player. The “Green Machine” played left back Aaden Maharaj in their 3-0 win over East Mucurapo Secondary at their Warren Street, St Augustine home ground on Wednesday 9 October, although the player was ..read more
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SSFL 24: Travel issues force St Anthony’s – Signal Hill postponement; four games to play after last match day
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by Lasana Liburd
4d ago
The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division clash between St Anthony’s College and Signal Hill Secondary, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, has been postponed until Monday 4 November. SSFL general secretary Azaad Khan advised stakeholders of the change today, via an email. Wired868 understands that Signal Hill were unable to get a flight to Trinidad ..read more
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Daly Bread: PNM’s “ratification” confusion
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by Martin Daly
6d ago
Dr Eric Williams set the standard for the practice of party politics by the People’s National Movement (PNM), which he founded in 1956. As political leader of the PNM, after successive PNM general election victories, Dr Williams took office in 1962 as the first prime minister of independent Trinidad and Tobago when the process of ..read more
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