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Football / Re: UEFA Champions League 2012/2013
« on: April 10, 2013, 02:08:00 PM »
PSG up 3-2 on agg at barca.
leh we see if they could hold on.
leh we see if they could hold on.
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Football / Re: Dortmund-Malaga
« on: April 09, 2013, 02:39:46 PM »
good! who want three team from the same country in the semi?
if bayern get thru tomorrow is a strictly spanish-german affair though.
if bayern get thru tomorrow is a strictly spanish-german affair though.
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Football / Re: Barack Obama Commissions Scientists to map and study the Brain
« on: April 08, 2013, 12:25:06 PM »
barack trying to figure out why publicly lusting after dougla.
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Football / Re: Trinis in Action (Apr 5-8, 2013)
« on: April 08, 2013, 12:23:07 PM »
one of the best weekends for trini players abroad for some time.
big up warriors!
big up warriors!
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Football / Re: Jack Warner sons arrested?
« on: April 01, 2013, 03:30:26 PM »
UPDATE 1-Trinidad asks U.S. for information on FBI soccer fraud probe
(Adds further background, details of allegations)
By Linda Hutchinson-Jafar and Mark Hosenball (Reuters)
PORT OF SPAIN/WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - Under pressure from opposition politicians, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago said she had sought information from U.S. authorities about an FBI investigation into alleged corruption in international soccer possibly involving the Caribbean country's national security minister, a former vice-president of FIFA.
An exclusive Reuters report last week quoted U.S. law enforcement sources as saying Daryan Warner, the son of National Security Minister Jack Warner, has become a "cooperating witness" in the FBI investigation.
The sources have not said who might be charged, if anybody, or when. While the exact scope of the investigation is not clear, among the matters under scrutiny are two previously reported allegations involving Jack Warner, the sources said.
Warner is the former head of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football (CONCACAF) and previously served as a vice president of FIFA, soccer's global governing body. He has not been charged with any crimes and has denied any wrongdoing.
While declining to comment on any aspect of the investigation, Warner, speaking to local media over the weekend, reiterated his long-standing denials of any wrongdoing and claimed he is being targeted by political opponents.
"I do not think you know of any other politician who for the last three years has been maligned and who has been crucified as I have been," said Warner, who accused his critics of seeking to weaken Trinidad and Tobago's three-year-old coalition government.
"The one objective in mind (is) to get rid of Jack Warner because there are those who believe that if you get rid of Jack Warner then you get rid of a major chunk or chink in the government's armor," Warner, who is head of one of Trinidad's four ruling political parties, said in comments shown on local television.
The investigation, which also involves the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. tax agency, is looking into potential violations of American tax laws and anti-fraud statutes, including laws prohibiting wire fraud and mail fraud, the law enforcement sources said.
After the publication of the Reuters story about the investigation, opposition politicians in Trinidad and Tobago called for Warner, who as national security minister is in charge of Trinidad's military and police forces, either to resign or for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to dismiss him.
David Abdulah, the head of the Movement for Social Justice party, a former coalition partner of the government, urged the prime minister to remove Warner from office.
"If she does not, she will pay the political price for keeping him in the government," Abdulah said, describing the news reports on Warner as "very embarrassing" for the country.
Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley also called on Warner to address the allegations.
Neither Daryan Warner nor a Trinidadian lawyer representing the Warner family have responded to requests for comment.
U.S. officials did not immediately comment on the Trinidadian government's statements that it is seeking information about the FBI investigation.
DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS
Persad-Bissessar said she has instructed Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran and Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to use diplomatic channels to obtain details about the investigation.
"It would be premature if not prejudicial for me to act without any official clarification or confirmation from the U.S. authorities on this controversial and sensitive matter," said Persad-Bissessar.
The exact scope of the FBI investigation is not clear, U.S. law enforcement sources have said.
However, the FBI has since 2011 been examining more than $500,000 in payments made by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) over the past 20 years to an offshore company headed by U.S. soccer official Chuck Blazer. That was a period when Jack Warner was also head of the CFU, a position he held from the early 1980s until 2011.
The precise reasons for many of those payments is unclear. In 2011, Blazer said that the payments were meant to be repayments to him by Warner of "a significant amount of money" which Blazer said he loaned to Warner in 2004. Warner told the media in Trinidad that the payments were above board.
Blazer declined comment when contacted last week about the Reuters story.
Persad-Bissessar has repeatedly stood by Warner since he quit his FIFA and CONCACAF positions in June 2011 in the wake of allegations of bribery in a report by a lawyer commissioned by Blazer, a member of FIFA's executive committee and former general secretary of CONCACAF.
The report alleged that Warner collaborated with another FIFA vice president at the time, Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar, to bribe Caribbean soccer officials so that they would back a bid by Bin Hammam to become FIFA's president. Bin Hammam and Warner both have repeatedly denied the allegations.
Bin Hammam's U.S. lawyer, Eugene Gulland, said last week that while he had heard that U.S. authorities were investigating CONCACAF issues, Bin Hammam had not been contacted about the probe.
When Warner resigned his FIFA position, the organization declared that "the presumption of innocence is maintained" in his case.
FIFA said last week the Swiss-based organization was "unaware" of any FBI investigation related to the Americas and Caribbean. (Editing by Kevin Gray and Claudia Parsons)
(Adds further background, details of allegations)
By Linda Hutchinson-Jafar and Mark Hosenball (Reuters)
PORT OF SPAIN/WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - Under pressure from opposition politicians, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago said she had sought information from U.S. authorities about an FBI investigation into alleged corruption in international soccer possibly involving the Caribbean country's national security minister, a former vice-president of FIFA.
An exclusive Reuters report last week quoted U.S. law enforcement sources as saying Daryan Warner, the son of National Security Minister Jack Warner, has become a "cooperating witness" in the FBI investigation.
The sources have not said who might be charged, if anybody, or when. While the exact scope of the investigation is not clear, among the matters under scrutiny are two previously reported allegations involving Jack Warner, the sources said.
Warner is the former head of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football (CONCACAF) and previously served as a vice president of FIFA, soccer's global governing body. He has not been charged with any crimes and has denied any wrongdoing.
While declining to comment on any aspect of the investigation, Warner, speaking to local media over the weekend, reiterated his long-standing denials of any wrongdoing and claimed he is being targeted by political opponents.
"I do not think you know of any other politician who for the last three years has been maligned and who has been crucified as I have been," said Warner, who accused his critics of seeking to weaken Trinidad and Tobago's three-year-old coalition government.
"The one objective in mind (is) to get rid of Jack Warner because there are those who believe that if you get rid of Jack Warner then you get rid of a major chunk or chink in the government's armor," Warner, who is head of one of Trinidad's four ruling political parties, said in comments shown on local television.
The investigation, which also involves the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. tax agency, is looking into potential violations of American tax laws and anti-fraud statutes, including laws prohibiting wire fraud and mail fraud, the law enforcement sources said.
After the publication of the Reuters story about the investigation, opposition politicians in Trinidad and Tobago called for Warner, who as national security minister is in charge of Trinidad's military and police forces, either to resign or for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to dismiss him.
David Abdulah, the head of the Movement for Social Justice party, a former coalition partner of the government, urged the prime minister to remove Warner from office.
"If she does not, she will pay the political price for keeping him in the government," Abdulah said, describing the news reports on Warner as "very embarrassing" for the country.
Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley also called on Warner to address the allegations.
Neither Daryan Warner nor a Trinidadian lawyer representing the Warner family have responded to requests for comment.
U.S. officials did not immediately comment on the Trinidadian government's statements that it is seeking information about the FBI investigation.
DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS
Persad-Bissessar said she has instructed Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran and Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to use diplomatic channels to obtain details about the investigation.
"It would be premature if not prejudicial for me to act without any official clarification or confirmation from the U.S. authorities on this controversial and sensitive matter," said Persad-Bissessar.
The exact scope of the FBI investigation is not clear, U.S. law enforcement sources have said.
However, the FBI has since 2011 been examining more than $500,000 in payments made by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) over the past 20 years to an offshore company headed by U.S. soccer official Chuck Blazer. That was a period when Jack Warner was also head of the CFU, a position he held from the early 1980s until 2011.
The precise reasons for many of those payments is unclear. In 2011, Blazer said that the payments were meant to be repayments to him by Warner of "a significant amount of money" which Blazer said he loaned to Warner in 2004. Warner told the media in Trinidad that the payments were above board.
Blazer declined comment when contacted last week about the Reuters story.
Persad-Bissessar has repeatedly stood by Warner since he quit his FIFA and CONCACAF positions in June 2011 in the wake of allegations of bribery in a report by a lawyer commissioned by Blazer, a member of FIFA's executive committee and former general secretary of CONCACAF.
The report alleged that Warner collaborated with another FIFA vice president at the time, Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar, to bribe Caribbean soccer officials so that they would back a bid by Bin Hammam to become FIFA's president. Bin Hammam and Warner both have repeatedly denied the allegations.
Bin Hammam's U.S. lawyer, Eugene Gulland, said last week that while he had heard that U.S. authorities were investigating CONCACAF issues, Bin Hammam had not been contacted about the probe.
When Warner resigned his FIFA position, the organization declared that "the presumption of innocence is maintained" in his case.
FIFA said last week the Swiss-based organization was "unaware" of any FBI investigation related to the Americas and Caribbean. (Editing by Kevin Gray and Claudia Parsons)
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General Discussion / Re: Escort charged with attempted murder for biting man's genitals
« on: March 21, 2013, 02:08:40 PM »
you is get what you pay for.
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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Belize Game (23-Mar-2013).
« on: March 21, 2013, 02:03:15 PM »
doh underestimate belize. they draw guatemala and only lose 1-0 to costa rica and honduras in january copa centroamericana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Copa_Centroamericana
mainly domestic side with a costa rican manager name leroy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize_national_football_team
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Copa_Centroamericana
mainly domestic side with a costa rican manager name leroy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize_national_football_team
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Football / Re: 2013/14 MLS Thread.
« on: February 15, 2013, 12:53:24 PM »
mustbe because he is a "prominent" athlete?
he could play some good ball though.
he could play some good ball though.
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Football / Re: 2013/14 MLS Thread.
« on: February 15, 2013, 12:34:44 PM »
former usa international robbie rogers announce he like man and retire at 25.
http://tracking.si.com/2013/02/15/robbie-rogers-gay-retires/
http://tracking.si.com/2013/02/15/robbie-rogers-gay-retires/
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Football / Re: 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
« on: February 06, 2013, 03:40:30 PM »
i was wondering watching this competition how T&T would rank in it theoretically.
de current squad could get out of the group phase?
de current squad could get out of the group phase?
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Football / Re: Internationals (Spoilers inside)
« on: February 06, 2013, 03:37:31 PM »
england win 2-1. they eh look bad atall...as for brazil...need work.
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Football / Re: 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
« on: February 06, 2013, 03:36:27 PM »
BK was the better team tonight. i feel they could beat nigeria.
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Football / Re: Official 2011/2012 Transfers/Rumours thread
« on: January 31, 2013, 05:10:32 PM »
nacho monreal from malaga to arsenal.
spain is the new brazil.
spain is the new brazil.
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General Discussion / Re: VW Superbowl Ad Racist?
« on: January 31, 2013, 11:20:07 AM »
i suppose all the white jamaican and trini racist for talking like the black islanders.
media need something else to talk about.
media need something else to talk about.
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Football / Re: Nick DeLeon declines T&T call-up.
« on: January 29, 2013, 11:50:26 AM »He has a better chance with T&T than USA.
Look at how Robbie Findley is disgarded now, even Nottingham Forest let him go last week.
better chance at what? failure?
findley go get pickup elsewhere or by mls. he was right to pick usa. look how he get to play in the world cup.
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Football / Re: Mario Balotelli
« on: January 29, 2013, 11:47:35 AM »
black to italy.
let the chanting begin.
let the chanting begin.
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Football / Re: Gold Cup 2013 Preparations and Meet up
« on: January 24, 2013, 11:58:45 AM »
ent!
we go make the georgia dome we home.
when de draw is?
we go make the georgia dome we home.
when de draw is?
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Football / Copa Centroamericano 2013
« on: January 24, 2013, 08:43:04 AM »
top 5 go to gold cup.
belize on the up and in the semi-finals.
torunament showing on goltv. comcast just replace it with beinsport english in my area.
http://www.concacaf.com/page/GoldCup/NewsDetail/0,,12813~3050451,00.html
belize on the up and in the semi-finals.
torunament showing on goltv. comcast just replace it with beinsport english in my area.
http://www.concacaf.com/page/GoldCup/NewsDetail/0,,12813~3050451,00.html
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Football / Re: 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
« on: January 19, 2013, 08:19:43 PM »114
Football / 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
« on: January 18, 2013, 10:27:08 PM »
kicking off tomorrow. all matches live on espn3.com in the us.
http://bit.ly/CAN-2013
Group A: South Africa, Cape Verde, Morocco, Angola
Group B: Ghana, DR Congo, Niger, Mali
Group C: Zambia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso
Group D: Ivory Coast, Togo, Tunisia, Algeria
http://bit.ly/CAN-2013
Group A: South Africa, Cape Verde, Morocco, Angola
Group B: Ghana, DR Congo, Niger, Mali
Group C: Zambia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso
Group D: Ivory Coast, Togo, Tunisia, Algeria
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General Discussion / Re: Name all Trinbagoians from A to Z, famous or not !!!
« on: January 10, 2013, 02:37:52 PM »
Trinidad James.
New rapper from the ATL. bave a big hit now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_James
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/MEwCFWAvGy4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/MEwCFWAvGy4</a>
New rapper from the ATL. bave a big hit now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_James
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Football / Re: Photos from Wired868 Fotball Festival
« on: January 10, 2013, 02:05:17 PM »
thanks man. that look like a real good lime.
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Football / Re: Lionel Messi wins Ballon d'Or ahead of Ronaldo & Iniesta
« on: January 08, 2013, 02:45:00 PM »
nice video from adidas celebrating messi.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/tyfqX77QAmQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/tyfqX77QAmQ</a>
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Football / Re: Fire Jamaal Shabazz Thread.
« on: January 07, 2013, 11:21:35 AM »
fire!
we doh need no inept treasonist, terrorist murderer as coach.
we doh need no inept treasonist, terrorist murderer as coach.
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Football / Re: 5 internationals for Gold Cup
« on: January 07, 2013, 11:20:17 AM »
ah read this without watching the date and think stern back?