KINGSTOWN – Bar­ba­dos Women will con­sid­er them­selves lucky to have got­ten past Wind­ward Is­lands Women by three wick­ets af­ter pro­duc­ing a shod­dy per­for­mance with the bat in the T20 Blaze in St Vin­cent on Sat­ur­day.

KINGSTOWN – Lee­ward Is­lands Women put them­selves in prime po­si­tion to qual­i­fy for the fi­nal of the T20 Blaze with a con­vinc­ing four-wick­et win over Trinidad and To­ba­go Women in St Vin­cent on Sat­ur­day.

The pairs of Sadie Torkar and Bian­ca Perkins (women) and Josi­ah Jankey and his broth­er Je­re­mi­ah Jankey (men) won the open­ing leg of the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) Trin­ba­go Beach Vol­ley Tour Un­der-23 Di­vi­sion at Saith Park, Ch­agua­nas, last week­end (Jan­u­ary 10-11).

Keshorn Wal­cott, the reign­ing T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) “Sports­man of the Year”, and Leah Bertrand, the “Sports­woman of the Year” award win­ners for 2025 are ex­pect­ed to cop the top awards once more when the 63rd edi­tion of the First Cit­i­zens Sports­man and Sports­woman of the Year 2025 func­tion takes place Sat­urday, at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, Port-of-Spain.

In his book "The End of His­to­ry and the Last Man" (1992), po­lit­i­cal the­o­rist Fran­cis Fukuya­ma ar­gued that the col­lapse of the So­vi­et Union sig­naled the tri­umph of lib­er­al democ­ra­cy and its con­fir­ma­tion as the fi­nal form of hu­man gov­ern­ment - the end of His­to­ry. To­day's world de­fies that con­clu­sion. Chi­na is a com­mu­nist poli­ty with cap­i­tal­ist eco­nom­ics; In­dia's sup­posed lib­er­al democ­ra­cy has a dis­tinct­ly il­lib­er­al char­ac­ter; else­where we have Rus­sia, Be­larus, North Ko­rea, Vi­et Nam and El Sal­vador, the theoc­ra­cy in Iran, the fam­i­ly fief­doms of the Mid­dle East, the mil­i­tary jun­tas of Myan­mar and West Africa. And then there is Don­ald Trump's dystopi­an ver­sion of Amer­i­ca. But I love the phrase "the end of His­to­ry" and I bor­row it to use in a more pro­sa­ic man­ner. Across the globe, de­spite the in­ex­orable ad­vance of the in­for­ma­tion rev­o­lu­tion and ever evolv­ing dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy, peo­ple know in­creas­ing­ly less about their own, nev­er mind hu­man, his­to­ry. His­tor­i­cal facts and gen­er­a­tional knowl­edge have been sup­plant­ed by the im­me­di­a­cy of so­cial me­dia pseu­do-ex­per­tise, ran­dom opin­ion and "al­ter­na­tive facts". And dai­ly, every­where, his­to­ry is be­ing re­vised and per­vert­ed by pow­er­ful in­ter­ests in favour of their nar­row, an­ti-Truth agen­das and to en­sure the peo­ples lose their ground­ings. We are at the end of His­to­ry.

T&T na­tion­al Un­der-17 men’s foot­ball team coach Ran­dolph Boyce has named a 23-man squad to face Pe­ru in two in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match­es in the cap­i­tal, Li­ma, sched­uled for Jan­u­ary 28 and 30.

PARA­MARI­BO – The dream of a first-ever World Cup fi­nals ap­pear­ance for Suri­name re­mains alive, but the path has grown more per­ilous.

With un­beat­en lead­ers and de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons De­fence Force elite not in ac­tion un­til Sat­ur­day, third placed Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice FC will have a chance for a share of the lead at the top of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier I stand­ings when they face Prison Ser­vice FC in the fea­ture match of a dou­ble-head­er on Friday.

WIND­HOEK, Namib­ia, Jan 15, CMC – West In­dies Un­der-19s com­menced their bid for a sec­ond ICC Men’s Un­der-19 World Cup ti­tle in win­ning if un­con­vinc­ing fash­ion against min­nows Tan­za­nia with a five-wick­et vic­to­ry, yes­ter­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – In a stun­ning and bru­tal­ly frank cri­tique on the pop­u­lar Ma­son and Guest ra­dio show, two re­spect­ed for­mer West In­dies fig­ures have launched a scathing at­tack on Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for re­port­ed­ly con­sid­er­ing ask­ing Nicholas Pooran to re­verse his in­ter­na­tion­al re­tire­ment for the up­com­ing T20 World Cup.

The Court of Ap­peal has been asked to ad­ju­di­cate over a le­gal dis­pute over a move by the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion to host tri­als for next month’s Pan Amer­i­can Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in Chile on Sat­ur­day. 

US Ma­jor League Soc­cer club, the Col­orado Rapids, ac­quired T&T for­ward Dante Sealy from fel­low Amer­i­can club CF Mon­tréal via a trade last month.