​The T&T Sec­ondary Schools Net­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSS­NA) Cham­pi­onship Week is set to ig­nite to­day at Shaw Park, To­ba­go, kick­ing off with the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed in­di­vid­ual and team shoot­ing com­pe­ti­tions.

Na­pari­ma Col­lege got two goals in the space of three min­utes to play them­selves back in­to con­tention for the ti­tle in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League when they de­feat­ed archri­vals St Bene­dict’s Col­lege 2-0 at Lewis Street, San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day.

I re­call al­most 12 years ago, the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) launched a high-per­for­mance pro­gramme with then-part­ner Michael John­son Per­for­mance (MJP), which has since closed in 2022.

The Caribbean faces a se­vere pub­lic health cri­sis de­fined by a dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly high bur­den of Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­eases (NCDs). NCDs, which in­clude di­a­betes, heart dis­ease, can­cer, and cere­brovas­cu­lar dis­ease, are the lead­ing cause of mor­tal­i­ty across the re­gion.

T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), through its Safe­guard­ing De­part­ment, host­ed a land­mark ses­sion on Thurs­day at its Cou­va of­fice to sig­nif­i­cant­ly ad­vance play­er care, well­be­ing, and cross-sec­tor col­lab­o­ra­tion in sport.

I’ve been deeply in­volved in Caribbean foot­ball over the years to know that our re­gion’s spir­it is un­like any oth­er. We com­pete, we clash, we tease, and then, some­how, we still find space for broth­er­hood. It’s part of who we are. But every now and then, a match comes around that tests that bal­ance be­tween em­pa­thy and am­bi­tion. No­vem­ber 13th will be one of those nights.

I was mind­ing my busi­ness a few weeks ago, when a Trinidad and To­ba­go Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier 1 man called me to ask if the T&T Su­per League (TTSL) still ex­ists. It does not. He was fed up of TTPFL and want­ed to start a new league. He of­floaded a cat­a­logue of com­plaints too many to re­count. Then, a week be­fore kick-off, the league grandiose­ly an­nounced its 2025/2026 re­sump­tion in To­ba­go last week­end.

CHAT­TOGRAM –The West In­dies did not even need the ser­vices of their in­spi­ra­tional skip­per Shai Hope to com­plete a se­ries white­wash of Bangladesh in the third and fi­nal T20I in Bangladesh on Fri­day.

Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice made it two wins from as many match­es in a row when they de­feat­ed last sea­son’s sec­ond-place team, MIC Cen­tral FC Re­boot, 2-1 in the first game of a dou­ble­head­er at the Ari­ma Velo­drome on Fri­day night.

On Wednes­day, in the Bil­liards Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion’s Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL), two women came up trumps for their re­spec­tive teams in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion 8 Ball com­pe­ti­tion. Karen Ram­cha­ran and Sal­isha Lochan, two of the top women pool play­ers in the coun­try, proved that they de­serve their places in the play­ing team and are no longer there as mere­ly to­ken rep­re­sen­ta­tion.

A his­toric del­e­ga­tion of over twen­ty Mas­ters ath­letes from Trinidad and To­ba­go will dive in­to the pres­ti­gious Bar­ba­dos Open Wa­ter Swim Fes­ti­val, which splash­es off on Wednes­day and con­cludes on Sun­day.

A height­ened se­cu­ri­ty alert across Trinidad and To­ba­go, sparked by news of a pos­si­ble Unit­ed States at­tack on neigh­bour­ing Venezuela, led to a cas­cade of can­cel­la­tions, post­pone­ments, and de­plet­ed pro­tec­tive ser­vices sports teams par­tic­i­pat­ing in com­pe­ti­tion this week­end.