De­fence Force Elite and the De­fence Force Tier 2 team ad­vanced to the quar­ter­fi­nals of the FCB Cup on Wednes­day night with vic­to­ries at their home base-the De­fence Force Re­serve Ground in Ch­aguara­mas.

Over the last six years, be­tween 2019 and 2024, the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) re­ceived more than $30 mil­lion in tax­pay­er’s mon­ey through the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Sport & Cul­ture Fund (OPM­SCF), and the Sports Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT), ac­cord­ing to a Guardian Me­dia in­ves­ti­ga­tion. How­ev­er, ac­cord­ing to con­cerned TTCB sources, the board has not been asked to ac­count for its spend­ing ful­ly.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua, May 15, CMC – With sev­er­al key West In­dies play­ers still com­mit­ted to the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL), Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has named a re­shaped squad for the up­com­ing ODI tours of Ire­land and Eng­land.

In a dra­mat­ic con­clu­sion to the pre­mier sport­ing event of T&T’s fi­nan­cial sec­tor, Sco­tia­bank TT has se­cured its sec­ond con­sec­u­tive cham­pi­onship at the Car­iFin Games Foot­ball Tour­na­ment. Now in its 15th year, the tour­na­ment cul­mi­nat­ed in an elec­tri­fy­ing fi­nal that saw Sco­tia­bank tri­umph 2-0 over T&T Mort­gage Bank (TTMB) at Re­pub­lic Bank Grounds, Barataria on Sat­ur­day (May 10).

There are too many sports sta­di­ums, crick­et ovals and cul­tur­al venues in the Caribbean strug­gling to re­main fi­nan­cial­ly vi­able, as their small do­mes­tic mar­kets can­not gen­er­ate enough rev­enue to sus­tain op­er­a­tions, ac­cord­ing to for­mer Cen­tral Bank of Bar­ba­dos gov­er­nor Dr Delisle Wor­rell.

Nigel Hit­lal had a sol­id match all round to lead Hit List to its third straight win from as many match­es when they beat D’Crush­ers to top Group B of the Har­vard Sports Club April Fest Wind­ball (8 overs) Crick­et Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day last.

BAS­SETERRE – The Bar­ba­di­an trio of Nathan Sealy, Zachary Carter and Zi­dane Clarke are set to take part in the Cool & Smooth T20 Ex­plo­sion, the pre­mier T20 com­pe­ti­tion in St Kitts.

DUBLIN, Ire­land – Sev­er­al fresh faces are among a 14-mem­ber Ire­land squad an­nounced on Wednes­day for the up­com­ing Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) and One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against West In­dies.

Meli­na Lopez and Kylee Young were both un­stop­pable in their re­spec­tive cat­e­gories – Tinymites and Ju­ve­nile Fe­males at the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion’s Na­tion­al Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships, which were held at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Burn­ley Ath­let­ics Club’s Des­tiny Arnold emerged as the most out­stand­ing ath­lete at the Max­imis­ing Ath­let­ic Po­ten­tial (MAP) Ju­ve­nile Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, dur­ing the week­end of May 3-4.

There were no short­ages of goals as the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) G-League, the coun­try’s pre­mier de­vel­op­men­tal foot­ball com­pe­ti­tion for girls ages nine to 14, kicked off last week­end with match­es both in the Un­der-12 and U-14 Di­vi­sions.

Tier 1 cham­pi­ons of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League, De­fence Force, face a mon­ster clash at home against the de­throned cham­pi­ons AC Port of Spain when the ac­tion in the round of 16 of the First Cit­i­zens Cup con­tin­ues Wednes­day at the De­fence Force Re­serve Ground in Ch­aguara­mas from 8 pm.