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Pre-Season Friendly. Score still 0–0. Promises FC takes the field in fresh kit, same mission. Delivery United promises this time they will deliver. The referee is not sure which side to call. The crowd just wants to see results.
Talk plenty. Play little. The season continues.
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Today’s equipment sponsor: Creativity. The Caribbean High Performance Campus loads on the billboard. The actual training happens in the back lot — water bottles for cones, tire for resistance, dirt for the track. The coach has a megaphone and a vision.
Train where you are. Picture where you going.
Read More →Speedeet & Wilar: two boys, one friendship, Pike Street, Georgetown. Every Sunday.
De mango tree behind Miss Inez house was de tallest ting on de block. Older dan Miss Inez he rself, older dan Pike Street, probably older dan Independence. Every Sunday de branches heav y wid fruit and every Sunday dem boys on Pike Street had ideas about dat fruit.
Today it was Speedeet turn to have ideas.
“Wilar. You hear dat?”
Read More →From de minute Wilar announce it, Pike Street know there wasn’t going be no peace.
“Dem hatching dis week,” Wilar say, standing like a man delivering national news. “My aunty duck sitting on twelve egg.”
Speedeet cut he eye. “You sure is twelve?”
“Was thirteen,” Wilar say. “One disappear.”
“Disappear how?”
Wilar shrug. “Duck business.”
From dat minute on, de two boys take up full-time duty as supervisor of de whole duck situation.
Read More →SAN FERNANDO — Arriving at the pre-arranged liming spot at precisely the agreed-upon time, 34-year-old Kevon Ramsaran spent the next 12 minutes surveying the empty premises before asking whether anyone else had committed to the evening’s plans, sources at the venue confirmed Friday.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →KINGSTON — Local resident Delroy Campbell, 34, confirmed at approximately 11:47 a.m. Tuesday that he was ‘just soon come,’ a statement that witnesses now acknowledge marked the beginning of a six-hour absence from which he has yet to fully return.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →LAGOS — Opening a Tuesday afternoon phone call with the reassurance ’no wahala at all, my guy,’ 32-year-old Emeka Nwosu proceeded over the next six minutes to introduce a situation involving a missing document, an angry uncle, and a sum of money that had ‘gone somewhere.’
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →BRIDGETOWN — After announcing at 6:14 p.m. that he would be departing ‘in a minute,’ 42-year-old Marlon Greaves remained on the premises for an additional 87 minutes during which he initiated two separate extended conversations with individuals he had not previously been speaking with.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →JOHANNESBURG — Responding to a 6:14 p.m. message with the commitment ‘on my way now now,’ 34-year-old Sipho Dlamini was at that moment seated in his Sandton office calculating the fastest route, which he had still not finalized eleven minutes later.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →ACCRA — Informing friends via WhatsApp voice note that he was ‘almost there’ and ‘just approaching now,’ 27-year-old Kwame Asare was at that exact moment observed in his bedroom standing before an open wardrobe, having not yet committed to either of two shirts under active consideration.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →NAIROBI — Responding to a friend’s call at 7:03 p.m. with the phrase ‘I’m almost there, five minutes,’ 30-year-old Brian Mwangi was at that moment observed standing in his sitting room holding his shoes in one hand and looking for his wallet.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →GEORGETOWN — At a press briefing held Tuesday at the Ministry of Finance, officials reassured the public that revenues from the country’s petroleum operations would, unlike the previous six reassurances issued on the same subject, now begin to meaningfully benefit ordinary citizens in the near future.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →GORDON HOUSE — In a press briefing held Monday, officials unveiled an ambitious framework to, at some undetermined point, begin preliminary conversations about possibly forming a committee to review road conditions nationwide.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →ABUJA — Officials unveiled Wednesday a comprehensive new initiative designed to resolve outstanding issues from the 2023 bold plan, which had itself been launched to address the failures of the 2019 bold plan, the 2014 bold plan, and the 2008 bold plan.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →PORT OF SPAIN — In a statement delivered Wednesday afternoon, officials unveiled a new seven-member review body whose primary mandate will be evaluating the findings of the previous review body, which had itself been established in 2023 to evaluate an earlier committee’s report.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →PRETORIA — Eskom released Wednesday what it described as an ‘integrated emotional continuity framework,’ advising citizens of anticipated drops in mood intensity corresponding to Stage 2 through Stage 6 events, with recommended domestic responses for each.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →ACCRA — At a press conference held Wednesday at the State House, officials unveiled a framework designed to improve the coordination and rollout of future policy announcements, with the first such announcement under the new framework expected ‘in due course.’
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →BRIDGETOWN — In a statement delivered Wednesday, the Ministry announced the formation of a committee to conduct a comprehensive review of the 2023 strategic plan, which had itself been a revision of the 2019 plan, which had revised the 2014 framework.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →MOMBASA ROAD — A routine evening commute Wednesday extended to 3 hours and 47 minutes, providing an estimated 140,000 Nairobi motorists with sufficient uninterrupted silence to question their career paths, relationships, mortgages, and decision to remain in the city.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →SOESDYKE — A Ministry of Public Works spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that the long-anticipated upgrade of the Georgetown-Linden corridor remains in the planning stage, a status the project has maintained continuously since 2012, with engineers now reportedly reviewing revised proposals to revise the previous revisions.
The situation continues to develop.
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