The in­au­gur­al Caribbean Games, planned for Ju­ly 13-19, 2009, in Trinidad and To­ba­go, were can­celled just weeks be­fore the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny due to the H1N1 virus out­break. Over 1,000 ath­letes from 26 Caribbean na­tions were ex­pect­ed to com­pete.

GEORGE­TOWN – Left-arm spin­ner Jay­den Lennox’s maid­en five-wick­et haul led New Zealand to a tense five-wick­et vic­to­ry over the West In­dies in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al in Guyana on Mon­day.

GEORGE­TOWN – Bar­ba­dos and An­tigua and Bar­bu­da topped their re­spec­tive groups to ad­vance to the sec­ond round of the FI­BA Amer­iCup 2029 Pre-Qual­i­fiers in Guyana on Sun­day.

Austin Ward and Ama­ia Wa­ter­stone both pulled off up­set wins when the Sagi­cor Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment host­ed by the Ten­nis Pa­trons Acad­e­my con­tin­ued at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua yes­ter­day.

T&T's Eden Chee Wah copped gold in the Un­der-18 girls' 200 me­tres fi­nal when the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) U-18 and U-23 Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships end­ed at the Una Nue­va His­to­ria Sports Com­plex Sta­di­um in Tlax­cala, Mex­i­co, Sun­day.

PROV­I­DENCE — Kea­cy Car­ty scored 95 and Shai Hope hit an un­beat­en 87 to guide the West In­dies to a com­fort­able sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over New Zealand in the first One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al in Guyana on Sat­ur­day. The pair shared a cru­cial 131-run third-wick­et part­ner­ship as the hosts chased down New Zealand’s 267 with sev­en balls to spare.

The West In­dies Women’s cam­paign in the re­cent ICC Women's T20 World Cup was de­fined by ex­cep­tion­al in­di­vid­ual ef­forts, fine mar­gins, and the struc­tur­al gap sep­a­rat­ing them from the top tier.

BREADY – West In­dies Women cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews scored a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive cen­tu­ry, while Stafanie Tay­lor chipped in with one of her own to lead their side to a com­pre­hen­sive six-wick­et vic­to­ry over Ire­land Women in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al in Ire­land on Sun­day.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Club San­do and the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) will lock horns in the T&T Women’s League Foot­ball (WoLF) fi­nal on Wednes­day at a venue to be con­firmed af­ter both teams reg­is­tered com­mand­ing semi­fi­nal wins at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground in La Hor­quet­ta on Sat­ur­day.

Za­hara An­tho­ny of Mar­lins wrote her name in­to the his­to­ry books when she erased a 35-year-old record held by for­mer Olympian Siob­han Crop­per on the penul­ti­mate night of com­pe­ti­tion in the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) Na­tion­al Age-Group Short Course Swim­ming Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – At Coolidge Crick­et Ground, Trinidad and To­ba­go reg­is­tered their sec­ond straight win via a three-wick­et vic­to­ry over the win­less Wind­ward Is­lands.

USA-based Kam­ran McIn­tosh-Ross and Dil­lon Beck­les both won their sin­gles match­es in con­trast­ing styles as the T&T men’s ten­nis team blanked US Vir­gin Is­lands 2-0 to seal pro­mo­tion from the sev­en-team Davis Cup Group IV Amer­i­c­as Tour­na­ment in Paraguay, Sat­ur­day.