Yaoshang is de­rived from two words, Yaong and Shang, mean­ing “hut” or “tem­po­rary shel­ter.” This term holds his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance, as it is be­lieved to be as­so­ci­at­ed with the birth of Nong­da Lairen Pakhang­ba, the first ruler of the Ma­nipuri king­dom in In­dia. To ho­n­our this his­tor­i­cal and cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance, the peo­ple of Ma­nipur burn a sym­bol­ic hut made of bam­boo and rice straw dur­ing the month of Lam­ta (Feb­ru­ary-March), the full moon day of the Meit­ei lu­nar cal­en­dar. This marks the com­mence­ment of the five-day Yaoshang fes­ti­val.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low has re­vealed that with­in the next week a new West In­dies Test cap­tain will be named.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – The Lee­ward Is­lands Women se­cured a com­mand­ing 36-run vic­to­ry over Trinidad and To­ba­go Women in the 13th match of the Women’s T20 Blaze at Arnos Vale Play­ing Field on Fri­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) con­firms that it raid­ed the T&T Crick­et Board head­quar­ters in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Thurs­day morn­ing and seized a sub­stan­tial quan­ti­ty of doc­u­ments, be­lieved to be ev­i­dence, dur­ing its op­er­a­tion and in the pres­ence of the TTCB pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath and oth­er of­fice staff.

GEORGE­TOWN – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors will proud­ly reprise their role as hosts for the 2025 edi­tion of the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL), sched­uled to take place from Ju­ly 10 to 18 at the icon­ic Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana.

Jo­hann Je­re­mi­ah fell ag­o­nis­ing­ly short of the first ever West In­dies Break­out League cen­tu­ry, but his per­for­mance was good enough to se­cure a play­off spot for the Wind­ward Is­lands In­fer­nos fol­low­ing their 86-run vic­to­ry over the Ja­maica Ti­tans at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my on Tues­day.

This year’s Rain­bow Cup To­ba­go In­ter­na­tion­al Triathlon Event, sched­uled to take place on June 7, will be the last time it will be held on the sis­ter is­land of To­ba­go.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua– For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go and West In­dies crick­eter Ham­mond Al­lan Fur­longe has been hailed by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for his con­tri­bu­tion to crick­et in the re­gion.

KINGSTOWN – Chinelle Hen­ry hit an even, un­beat­en cen­tu­ry, the first of this year’s Women’s T20 Blaze, as de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica Women crushed Bar­ba­dos Women by 62 runs in St Vin­cent on Wednes­day.

So, last week I dipped my toes in­to the murky wa­ters of pol­i­tics and, sur­pris­ing­ly, I didn’t get eat­en alive! I sin­cere­ly thank all who saw me or sent mes­sages in­form­ing me how they liked it. But let’s be clear, that wasn’t a love let­ter to the politi­cians; the ar­ti­cle was sim­ply meant for the pow­ers that be, who now have an over­whelm­ing man­date from the peo­ple of T&T, to get sport mov­ing in the right and pos­i­tive di­rec­tion.

Vi­tas House Hos­pice is invit­ing the na­tion to come to­geth­er in sol­i­dar­i­ty, re­mem­brance, and hope at its first Can­cer Re­mem­brance 5K Walk, set to take place on June 14 at St Mary’s Col­lege (CIC) Grounds, St Clair, in Port-of-Spain.

So the Guyana crick­eters Ver­sam­my Per­maul and Kelvon An­der­son, who were charged with ball tam­per­ing, have had a change of heart.