Pres­i­dent of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee, Di­ane Hen­der­son, was high in praise for the coun­try’s ath­letes at the just-con­clud­ed Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow, Scot­land.

GLAS­GOW – Ja­maica’s Sun­shine Girls fell short in their bid to win gold at the Com­mon­wealth Games when they were de­feat­ed 56-48 by New Zealand in the fi­nal Scot­land on Sun­day.

GEORGE­TOWN – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Guyana Ama­zon War­riors pro­duced an un­be­liev­able per­for­mance to edge the San Fran­cis­co Uni­corns by six runs in a low scor­ing Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) fi­nal in Guyana on Sat­ur­day.

Justin Greaves’s un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry helped the West In­dies lev­el the play­ing field with Pak­istan at the end of the first day’s play in the sec­ond Test in St Clair, Port-of-Spain on Sun­day.

Ja­maican out­fit Mount Pleas­ant FA edged Delfines del Este of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 1-0 to cap­ture the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) Club Shield ti­tle at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va on Sun­day.

In­ter Mi­a­mi CF Acad­e­my goal­keep­er Levi Williams of Trinidad and To­ba­go rep­re­sent­ed the club at the 2026 MLS NEXT All-Star Game, cap­ping off a mem­o­rable ex­pe­ri­ence that in­clud­ed train­ing along­side the league's top youth tal­ents be­fore help­ing the East de­feat the West with a 6-1 re­sult on Mon­day night.

​Teague Mar­cano’s dou­ble strike en­sured that the Trinidad and To­ba­go men’s hock­ey team ad­vanced to the fi­nal of the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games play-offs Sun­day, de­feat­ing Venezuela 2-1 as ac­tion re­sumed at the Field Hock­ey Sta­di­um in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe, Min­is­ter of Health, re­cent­ly stat­ed that one in every four chil­dren is ei­ther over­weight or obese in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

​Swim­mers Dy­lan Carter and Nikoli Black­man, along­side cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell, earned Trinidad and To­ba­go a gold, a bronze, and a sil­ver medal, re­spec­tive­ly, on day nine of the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games on Sat­ur­day in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

Train­er Jose William-Sama­roo did a fan­tas­tic job Sat­ur­day on Eman­ci­pa­tion Day at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma, when he pro­duced his three-year-old colt, Band of De Year, to win the Mid­sum­mer Clas­sic, the sec­ond leg of lo­cal rac­ing's Triple Crown.

The West In­dies will stride on­to the hal­lowed turf of the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain on Sun­day with his­to­ry in their sights and a fortress at their backs.

The FI­FA World Cup has come and gone, but for Trinidad and To­ba­go foot­ball, the ex­cite­ment shouldn't end with the fi­nal whis­tle in New Jer­sey. If any­thing, the next two months could prove even more im­por­tant.