Mrs Fete

Kamla keeps up heavy party schedule Amidst fiery protests in the Siparia constituency and bitter complaints by some constituents that she is missing in action, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is keeping up a heavy party schedule of Carnival fetes, in one instance hitting three — in different parts of the read more…

Veterans to the rescue
January 13th 2012 12:21 PMTHERE is something big happening in Trinidad and Tobago’s football with the formation of the Veterans Football Association. Since the present local football fraternity has descended into a very dark abyss, being humbled by Guyana and Grenada, the Veterans are bent on saving and redeveloping the sad plight of T&T read more…

ARC CEO Ogeer gets ‘golden handshake’
January 13th 2012 12:20 PMTALK in racing circles is how Arima Race Club (ARC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ken Ogeer is being given a “golden handshake” of over $200,000 at the end of his contract this month. Ogeer was given a three-year contract in which it was agreed to pay him a bonus every read more…

Champion trainer O’Brien faces a ban
January 13th 2012 12:19 PMTRAINERS are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the hearing into the illegal drug use on Joezel, trained by John O’Brien. The Trinidad and Tobago Racing Authority (TTRA) has scheduled a hearing for Thursday for the champion trainer to explain the use of a painkiller procaine, which Joezel was tested positive read more…

How Gene Miles died
January 13th 2012 12:16 PMON December 17, 1972 the Sunday Punch published an interview conducted by its publisher Patrick Chookolingo. The interview was said to be the first ever done with the, by then, disgraced socialite Gene Miles and had been done in 1963. The second installment of the re-print appeared in the TnT read more…

Trainer slapped up for bounced cheque
January 13th 2012 12:16 PMTALK among trainers is how a sports writer, who is a trainer, got a few slaps for allegedly issuing a bounced cheque recently. This column was told that a man came to the racetrack with a walking stick, inquiring about a trainer early in the morning. He was told that read more…

Jokers, jesters & comic clowns
January 13th 2012 12:15 PMOver the years I have learnt to expect and accept certain behaviour from whosoever made up the current crop of posing pretenders and mimic men so I am rarely surprised, but every now and then some of them go so far above and beyond even my cynical expectations that I read more…



