Sports Roneil Walcott An Hour Ago From left-right: The West Indies quartet of Romario Shepherd, Gudakesh Motie, captain Shai Hope and Sherfane Rutherford. Photo courtesy Windies Cricket. – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force wicket-keeper/batsman Amir Jangoo had a One-day international (ODI) debut to remember at Warner Park in Basseterre, St Kitts on December 12 as he scored an unbeaten 104 off 83 balls to help the West Indies to a four-wicket win against Bangladesh in the third and final ODI. The West Indies sealed a 3-0 series sweep, and their chase of the 322-run target was the highest successful run chase at the venue. With their previous ODI series win against Bangladesh coming ten years ago, the Shai Hope-led team made a big statement to floor the visitors. The 27-year-old Jangoo has had a terrific year, and his chart-topping return of 446 runs in the CG United Regional Super50 tournament...

Sports Roneil Walcott 45 Minutes Ago The Signal Hill Secondary football team. – SIGNAL Hill Secondary (21 points) jumped to places to eighth in the 2024 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) premier division table on December 9 after getting an exciting 3-2 win against the fifth-placed Arima North Secondary (24 points) in Signal Hill, Tobago. Signal Hill’s hopes of claiming a national crown were dashed on November 29 when they lost to eventual winners St Benedict’s College in a penalty shootout in the national intercol semifinals. Signal Hill were able to close off their season on a high, though, with their top-scorer Kyle James netting in the 68th minute to settle the five-goal thriller. Signal Hill jumped out to a 2-0 lead after just 18 minutes through goals from Damario Henry and Nickel Williams. The “Dial Dynamos” roared back as Darren De Four scored in the 37th minute, before Nkosi...

News Ryan Hamilton-Davis 6 Hrs Ago NGC executives Ian Walcott, VP operations, left; Edmund Subryan, acting president; Verlier Quan-Vie, VP commercial and Dr Joseph Ishmael Khan, chairman; stand in front of the LNG cargo ship. – Photo courtesy NGC THE first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Atlantic’s Trains Two and Three left its facility in Point Fortin over the past two weeks, the company said in a press release on December 11. The release said the gas from Train Two left for Italy on November 26 and Train Three left for Egypt on December 6. “Under the new commercial structure of Atlantic, NGC, through its shareholder company NGC TT LNG Ltd (NGC LNG), acquired a 5.7 per cent shareholding interest in Trains Two and Three with effect from October 1, 2024,” the release said. The release added the shareholding interest will further increase to ten per cent on...

News Sean Douglas 3 Hrs Ago From left, CTU deputy director Dane-Marie Marshall and CTU director Allan Meiguel. – Photo by Gregory Mc Burnie WHILE 102 individuals have been identified as victims of human trafficking in Trinidad and Tobago, one person has been convicted on this heinous criminal activity, learnt a forum to mark Human Rights Day held on December 10 at the Brix Hotel, Cascadia. It was hosted by the UNHCR and the Counter Trafficking Unit (CTU) of the Ministry of National Security. CTU head Allan Meiguel said he expected to see an increase in the number of individuals getting convicted for human-trafficking, replying to Newsday in the question-and-answer session. Newsday cited the CTU’s 2022 Annual Report on Trafficking in Persons in TT recently laid in the House of Representatives which said in the decade 2013-2022, some 102 trafficking victims were identified of whom 92 people were subject to...

Sports Roneil Walcott Just Now Windies opening batsman Brandon King (L) and Evin Lewis. Photo courtesy Windies Cricket. – West Indies completed their first One-Day International (ODI) series win over Bangladesh since 2014 when they got a convincing seven-wicket victory in the second match of their three-match series at Warner Park in Basseterre, St Kitts on December 10. With the win, the Shai Hope-led West Indies team jumped out to an unassailable 2-0 series lead. “I think our performance was pretty clinical…we always ask the guys to finish a series after going 1-0 up,” Hope said, during the post-match presentation. “It’s something we have been struggling to do for the last few series at home. It’s one of the challenges we put to the boys…it’s good to see we’re 2-0 up now and we have one more to go to try and finish it 3-0.” Bangladesh batted first and were...

News Jada Loutoo 8 Minutes Ago Winston “Cro Cro” Rawlins. – File photo Four-time Calypso Monarch Winston “Cro Cro” Rawlins will be allowed to appeal a judge’s ruling which found him guilty of slandering businessman Inshan Ishmael in a public performance. Justice of Appeal James Aboud granted Rawlins his application for an extension of time to file the record of appeal. Ishmael’s attorneys had filed an application for the dismissal of the calypsonian’s notice of appeal because it was not filed within three months of Justice Frank Seepersad’s ruling on January 29. Seepersad had ruled Rawlins abused his creative licence in his 2023 calypso Another Sat is Outside Again, in response to Ishmael’s statements about people in Laventille and Beetham. In ruling, Aboud weighed procedural delays against the broader implications of the case for TT’s cultural traditions. > He noted that while Rawlins’s legal team, which included two senior counsel,...

Editorial Newsday 4 Hrs Ago Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – IN LESS than a fortnight, the dynastic regime that ruled Syria for over half a century was toppled. When rebel forces, led by Abu Mohammed al-Golani, took hold of Aleppo on November 30, it marked the start of a remarkable offensive. By December 7, the insurgents had taken Homs. One day later, they entered Damascus. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, son of Hafez al-Assad, fled to Russia. Statues and portraits of the Assads were torn down. A brutal dictatorship fell. > It is a new chapter. Yet we must temper any sense of hope with extreme caution. The world has seen this kind of change before. The fall of one administration creates a vacuum then filled with something equally bad, if not worse. It will be a delicate and difficult task for figures like Mr Golani, who made his first...

Sports Jonathan Ramnanansingh Just Now Former TT Cricket Board treasurer Kiswah Chaitoo. – TTCB/File Photo KISWAH Chaitoo lost his appeal against the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board’s (TTCB) January 10 motion of no confidence moved against him, which resulted in his February 28 removal as treasurer. In a 50-page judgment issued by the seven-member Supreme Appellate Committee (SAC) on December 9, they found Chaitoo in “flagrant breach” of Article 27 of TTCB’s constitution, which states, “The proceedings of all documents and all meetings of the executive and of the board shall be confidential and not be disclosed to unauthorised persons.” Ultimately, Chaitoo’s decision to share internal information with the police before the TTCB completed its internal investigations, partnered with him “breaching his duty of confidentiality” by providing information from an executive meeting to this newspaper on January 14, were the central reasons given by SAC deemed “sufficient to ground a...

Multimedia Newsday Reporter 31 Minutes Ago All eyes are glued to the game as this player focuses on the win. – Pupils of seven special-needs schools enjoyed holiday cheer as they were treated to a Chuck E Cheese Christmas party by the Digicel Foundation. Some 225 children from Lady Hochoy Cocorite, Cascade School for the Deaf, Wharton Patrick Special School, Agape Training Centre, Each One Teach One, Lady Hochoy Arima, and Aspirare Learning Community enjoyed an unforgettable day of games, food, music, and appearances from Chuck E Cheese and Santa Claus, who distributed goody bags, said a news release. Principal Wayne Jordan of Each One Teach One was grateful for the goodwill gesture and the joy it created on November 28. He said in the news release, “For many of our children, this is a rare and unforgettable treat that brings so much joy and excitement. “It’s heartwarming to see...

News Melissa Doughty 3 Hrs Ago Oilfields Workers Trade Union president general Ancel Roget speaks to supporters, members of several other trade unions, political parties and social activists, after delivering a letter at the Prime Minister’s St Ann’s residence on December 7. – File photo by Angelo Marcelle NATIONAL Transformation Alliance (NTA) political leader and former police commissioner Gary Griffith said December 7’s protests were not just about the Salaries Review Commission (SRC) report and increases for top public officials, but rather, years of frustration. The Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) and other unions held a rally at the Queen’s Park Savannah on December 7 and also marched to the Prime Minister’s official residence to deliver a letter of demands. The unions asked Cabinet to reverse its decision to accept the SRC report, settle outstanding negotiations, meet with recognised, majority unions, offer wage increases comparable to those in the report,...