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Trinidad Opposition Leader Asks Police to Begin Jack Warner Probe
June 21, 2011 | 10:20 am | 0 Comment
Above: Trinidad Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley Trinidad Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley is calling for Trinidad Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs to investigate whether Works Minister Jack Warner broke any laws in the alleged FIFA bribery scandal. Warner resigned from the international football body yesterday during an ongoing FIFA probe into alleged bribery more...
Jack Warner Quits FIFA
June 20, 2011 | 10:38 am | 1 Comments
Jack Warner (Photo source: FIFA) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Works Minister and FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has resigned from FIFA, in addition to leaving his other posts as head of CONCACAF and the Caribbean Football Union. Accordingly, the investigation into alleged bribery charges against him has been dropped. "As a consequence of Mr Warner's more...
Edward Seaga: Warner Must Resign
June 12, 2011 | 1:19 pm | 0 Comment
Edward Seaga, left, and Jack Warner Former Jamaican Prime Minister and current President of the Football Association of Jamaica, Edward Seaga, called for embattled Trinidad Minister Jack Warner, the suspended head of CONCACAF, to resign. "We cannot continue this thing with Jack Warner, we simply cannot," Seaga said. "The man has already committed himself and will most more...
A Daughter of Calypso Returns Home
June 6, 2011 | 11:10 pm | 0 Comment
Keina Calliste By Lincoln Depradine Trinidadian Keina Calliste is the daughter of one of the Caribbean’s greatest calypsonians — but despite a family legacy in Grenada, she had never visited the island. “I like it,” she said. “It’s not that much different from Trinidad. We have a lot of similarities.” Calliste’s father was Leroy “Black more...
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Edwin Carrington Named Trinidad’s Ambassador to CARICOM
June 3, 2011 | 9:57 am | 0 Comment
Edwin Carrington, the former secretary general of CARICOM, has been named Trinidad's ambassador to the body, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced. Carrington was CARICOM secretary general for 18 years, from August 1992 to December 2010, the longest-serving CARICOM secretary general. [Trinidad more...
Trinidad Government Divided on FIFA’s Warner Allegations
June 2, 2011 | 2:30 pm | 0 Comment
The FIFA corruption scandal has an especially close relationship with Trinidad, as Jack Warner, one of several officials suspended pending a FIFA probe, was not just CONCACAF's president, but remains Trinidad's Minister of Works and Transport. But the People's Partnership government is divided on how the bribery allegations should impact Warner's standing in the more...
Winston Dookeran Steps Down as Head of Trinidad’s Congress of the People
May 29, 2011 | 10:54 pm | 0 Comment
Trinidad Finance Minister Winston Dookeran, the political leader of the Congress of the People party in Trinidad, announced he would be stepping down from his role. Dookeran took the top spot in the party in 2006 after leaving the UMC. After a meeting with party members, he said he would not offer himself as a candidate for the party leadership. He will remain finance more...
Trinidad’s Warner Suspended by FIFA
May 29, 2011 | 12:15 pm | 0 Comment
Source: FIFA Trinidad's Minister of Transport and Works and FIFA Vice President Jack Warner is among two FIFA officials suspended by football's governing body ahead of an ethics probe. Warner, along with Qatar's Mohammed bin Hammam, the head of Asia's soccer confederation, will face a full inquiry. Bin Hammam, who had been a candidate for the FIFA presidency, withdrew more...
Trinidad’s Jack Warner in FIFA Probe
May 26, 2011 | 8:33 am | 0 Comment
Source: FIFA Trinidad and Tobago's Jack Warner is involved in a bribery probe by officials of FIFA, football's global governing body. Warner, the president of the CONCACAF federation, a FIFA vice president and Trinidad's Minister of Works and Transport, has been called the most powerful man in Caribbean football. According to a file including sworn affidavits by more...
Trinidad’s Ruling People’s Partnership Marks One Year in Office
May 24, 2011 | 8:36 am | 0 Comment
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Trinidad's ruling People's Partnership marked one year in office, after winning 29 seats compared to the People's National Movement's 12 seats a year ago. The popularity of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, however, has fallen in polls, with a 14 percent drop, according to Market Facts and Opinion. The government went through more...
