Phillip Watts, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs has pledged his con­tin­ued sup­port to the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion and its na­tion­al teams in their quest for suc­cess.

Cham­pi­on train­er John O’Brien and cham­pi­on jock­ey Dil­lon Khelawan both will be seek­ing to con­tin­ue their win­ning ways when the Ari­ma Race Club bring rac­ing to the ta­ble on Mon­day (Sep­tem­ber 1).

With so much hap­pen­ing that can be seen as neg­a­tive, even in say­ing that these aren’t easy times and it’s an ex­treme­ly chal­leng­ing pe­ri­od, I re­main un­wa­ver­ing in my be­lief that “this too shall pass”.

The Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Un­der-16 Girls Hub pro­gramme, Au­gust 15 to Sep­tem­ber 3, in part­ner­ship with the T&T Women’s Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (TTWCA), is ex­pos­ing young girls to the fun­da­men­tals of crick­et as part of a long-term strate­gic plan to de­vel­op the next gen­er­a­tion of high­ly skilled West In­dies women's crick­eters.

GROS ISLET – The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers se­cured a cru­cial 18-run vic­to­ry over the Saint Lu­cia Kings in a hard-fought Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League en­counter at the Daren Sam­my Crick­et Grounds in St Lu­cia on Sat­ur­day night, a re­sult that dra­mat­i­cal­ly reshuf­fles the ear­ly-sea­son stand­ings.

T&T's Chan­non Thomp­son was named the "Most Valu­able Play­er" (MVP) of the tour­na­ment among her three in­di­vid­ual awards af­ter the "Ca­lyp­so Spik­ers" record­ed a ninth women's ti­tle when the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Se­nior Cham­pi­onship end­ed at the Kendal GL Isaacs Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um in New Prov­i­dence, Nas­sau, Ba­hamas on Sat­ur­day night.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua – In a stun­ning re­ver­sal of for­tunes, the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors de­liv­ered a thun­der­ous state­ment to the rest of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League, dis­man­tling the ta­ble-top­ping An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons by a mas­sive 83 runs in a rain-af­fect­ed Game 9 on Fri­day night.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – In a sig­nif­i­cant move that sig­nals a po­ten­tial chang­ing of the guard, long-serv­ing open­er and for­mer Test cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite is set to be dropped from Crick­et West In­dies’ cen­tral con­tract list for the 2025-2026 sea­son.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The wait is over for lo­cal foot­ball fans as the Ja­maica Pre­mier League (JPL) is set to roar back in­to ac­tion this Sun­day, Au­gust 24, promis­ing a thrilling open­ing week­end packed with re­gion­al tal­ent and in­trigu­ing sto­ry­lines.

Kaveer Ra­moutar and Ama­ra Urquhart were crowned Un­der-19 Sin­gles cham­pi­ons as T&T play­ers se­cured 13 ti­tles com­bined when the cur­tain came down on the Caribbean Re­gion­al Bad­minton Con­fed­er­a­tion (CARE­BA­CO) Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships in Bar­ba­dos, Sat­ur­day.

T&T’s Jer­seem Boodram placed 30th in the men’s golf com­pe­ti­tion to bring down the cur­tain on this coun­try’s par­tic­i­pa­tion at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Asun­cion, Paraguay, Sat­ur­day.

T&T swim­mers Liam Car­ring­ton and Evan Gillard-Bruce missed out on ad­vanc­ing to the semi­fi­nals of the men's 100 me­tres freestyle when the World Aquat­ic Ju­nior Swim­ming Cham­pi­onship con­tin­ued in Otopeni, Ro­ma­nia, Sat­ur­day.