Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul was back in the spot­light re­cent­ly and, for a few won­der­ful mo­ments it felt as though time had stood still.

In­spired by the shoot­ing con­sis­ten­cy of Eng­lish-based goal shoot­er Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph, Trinidad and To­ba­go bat­tled to a 62-35 vic­to­ry over re­gion­al ri­val St Lu­cia when the ac­tion con­tin­ued in the Amer­i­c­as Net­ball World Cup Qual­i­fiers at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Com­plex in Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Goal shoot Maikea Bram­ble was un­stop­pable as she scored 55 goals from 58 at­tempts to lead the Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior women’s net­ball team—dudged the ‘Ca­lyp­so Girls’—to a con­vinc­ing 61-32 sweep of Cana­da for a fourth straight win in the eight-team Net­ball World Cup Syd­ney 2027 Amer­i­c­as Qual­i­fiers on Fri­day.

A brace from Djoshua Cyrus of Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, set Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (T&T) Un­der-15 foot­ballers off to a win­ning start in Group ‘S’ of the FI­FA Un­der-15 World Cup and Fes­ti­val at the Hov­san Com­pe­ti­tion Com­plex in Baku, Azer­bai­jan on Sat­ur­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go boys’ un­der-15 foot­ball un­der the guid­ance of coach Ran­dolph Boyce will meet fel­low Caribbean par­tic­i­pants in St. Kitts/Nevis in their open­ing match in Group S when the in­au­gur­al Eight-A-Side FI­FA Un­der-15 World Cup & Fes­ti­val kicks off in Baku, Azer­bai­jan on Sat­ur­day. The tour­na­ment runs un­til Oc­to­ber 31.

Tasseog­ra­phy: "A div­ina­tion prac­tice or for­tune-telling method that in­ter­prets pat­terns in tea leaves at the bot­tom of a cup."

The trio of Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School (South), Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas (Cen­tral) and East Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary School (North) cap­tured their re­spec­tive Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Boys Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion zon­als crown on Tues­day to stay in con­tention for pro­mo­tion to next year’s Pre­mier Di­vi­sion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) team, Club San­do FC, suf­fered a 2-0 de­feat to Ja­maica Pre­mier League (JPL) club Mount Pleas­ant Foot­ball Acad­e­my on Thurs­day night in their Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup semi­fi­nal sec­ond leg at Sabi­na Park, Kingston, Ja­maica.

DHA­KA, Bangladesh – Kevin Wick­ham and John Camp­bell scored half cen­turies as West In­dies bat­ters made full use of favourable con­di­tions on the fi­nal day of their two-day warmup match against a Bangladesh Crick­et Board XI, which pe­tered out in­to a draw on Fri­day.

Liselle John­son, head coach of the Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior women’s net­ball team – dubbed the ‘Ca­lyp­so Girls’ – is con­fi­dent of her team con­tin­u­ing its win­ning streak when the eight-team Net­ball World Cup Syd­ney 2027 Amer­i­c­as Qual­i­fiers re­sume on Fri­day at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Com­plex, Bridgetown, St Michael, Bar­ba­dos.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Club San­do will be chas­ing his­to­ry when they face Ja­maica's Mount Pleas­ant Foot­ball Acad­e­my in the sec­ond leg of their Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup semi­fi­nal at Sabi­na Park, Kingston, Ja­maica, on Thurs­day night from 7 pm.

A few days ago, a fel­low crick­et head pulled me aside and posed a straight­for­ward ques­tion: “How would you rate the West In­dies’ white-ball tour to In­dia?” Af­ter mulling it over for a few sec­onds and work­ing on a scale from one to ten (where a one is an ab­solute, un­mit­i­gat­ed dis­as­ter and a ten is pure, flaw­less per­fec­tion), I set­tled firm­ly on a nine out of ten. A ten would have re­quired a clean sweep of every sin­gle match, but a rat­ing of nine places this cam­paign square­ly in the “Very Good” cat­e­go­ry.