BAS­SETERRE – Bats­man Kea­cy Car­ty has been added to the West In­dies squad for the fifth and fi­nal T20I against Aus­tralia, re­plac­ing the in­jured Evin Lewis, who has re­turned home.

The T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA) will head to the elec­tion polls on Sep­tem­ber 23, more than a year since long-stand­ing box­ing ad­min­is­tra­tor Ce­cil Forde and his ex­ec­u­tive were re­turned to of­fice.

Cham­pi­on horse in T&T, Hel­lo World, put on a show at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma last Sun­day (Ju­ly 20) when gal­lop­ing with sta­ble­mate and Mid­sum­mer Clas­sic as­pi­rant So­ca Ec­sta­sy over 1,000 me­tres, on the main track at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma.

T&T swim­mer Dy­lan Carter splashed off this coun­try's medal hopes at the World Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships with a 21st-place fin­ish in the men's 50 me­tres but­ter­fly on Sat­ur­day night (Sun­day morn­ing TT time) at the World Aquat­ics Are­na in the Sin­ga­pore Sports Hub.

CAS­TRIES, Saint Lu­cia – The Saint Lu­cia Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (SL­BA) is prepar­ing to host the 2025 OECS Box­ing Cham­pi­onships, with some of the re­gion’s best pugilists set to take cen­tre stage.

Ja­heim Mc Fee came off the bench in the 65th minute to re­place Shack­iel Hen­ry and net­ted the win­ner as T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier I's Ath­let­ic Club Port-of-Spain (AC PoS) made a win­ning start to their cam­paign in the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) Club Shield at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, Sun­day (Ju­ly 27).

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has whole­heart­ed­ly wel­comed the re­cent pro­pos­al put for­ward by the Bu­reau of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) and the Prime Min­is­te­r­i­al Sub-Com­mit­tee (PM­SC) on Crick­et.

The re­cent Ju­ly 3–4, 2025, vis­it of In­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di to Trinidad and To­ba­go brought more than just for­mal agree­ments and hand­shakes; it cre­at­ed new op­por­tu­ni­ties and ex­cite­ment. Among the 15 agree­ments signed, young fe­male crick­eters from T&T now have the great chance to re­ceive train­ing in In­dia.

LEEDS – A bril­liant cen­tu­ry by Pak­istan’s Kam­ran Ak­mal con­demned West In­dies Cham­pi­ons to their third de­feat in four match­es in the World Cham­pi­onship of Leg­ends, as they went down by 49 run­sin Eng­land on Sat­ur­day (Ju­ly 26).

BAS­SETERRE – Aus­tralia is one match away from clean sweep­ing the West In­dies on their tour of the Caribbean af­ter se­cur­ing an ex­cit­ing three-wick­et win in the fourth T20I at Warn­er Park in St Kitts on Sat­ur­day.

Every time the Caribbean, and par­tic­u­lar­ly T&T, faces a down­turn in foot­ball or crick­et—whether it’s a string of loss­es, un­der­whelm­ing tour­na­ment per­for­mances, or an over­all lack of com­pet­i­tive­ness—the same old nar­ra­tive re-emerges like clock­work: “We’re not in­vest­ing enough in grass­roots.”

A rep­re­sen­ta­tive Sec­ondary Schools’ Crick­et League (SS­CL) team will com­pete in an Un­der-17 crick­et tour­na­ment in Col­orado, USA, for thanks to the sup­port of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC). The tour­na­ment is sched­uled to run from to­mor­row (Ju­ly 28) to Au­gust 8.