A childhood encounter with a touring steelband began Stephen Stuempfle’s connection with Trinidad. Now the US scholar has written an illuminating history of Port of Spain in the era before Independence. As Judy Raymond learns, Stuempfle’s research has only deepened his love for T&T’s capital

BRIAN Lewis, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) has been absorbing all the information he can from sporting leaders around the world at the 5th annual Leaders Sport Business Summit being held at The TimesCenter in New York.

Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee’s (TTOC’s) #10gold24 athlete welfare and preparation fund yesterday (Wednesday May 16^th) benefitted from an injection of $10,000.00 courtesy the Kenson Group of Companies. 

LYSTRA Simmons, grandmother of slain Form Four student 16-year-old Noah Simmons, said while she could try to forget seeing his dead body on the ground she could not forgive his killer.

WHEN Noah Simmons was just 13 years old, he walked on to the compound of the Shiva Boys’ Hindu College in Penal alone and requested to speak with the principal.

The pattern is clear. The privileged looks the other way until outrage about a specific injustice injects a sense of urgency