For­mer foot­ball ref­er­ee and sports ad­min­is­tra­tor Lennox Sir­juesingh passed away on Sat­ur­day. He cel­e­brat­ed his 82nd birth­day on Ju­ly 27.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go mixed mar­tial arts team left on Sep­tem­ber 6 for Bo­gotá. Colom­bia, to com­pete at the 2026 Glob­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Mixed Mar­tial Arts (GAM­MA) Pan-Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onships, which be­gins to­day and con­tin­ues un­til Septem­ber 13.

Coach An­gus Eve and his Club San­do FC squad will be con­fi­dent of se­cur­ing a spot in this year’s Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup semi­fi­nals when they host the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic’s Delfines Del Este FC in Group A at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 8) from 7 pm.

T&T bad­minton play­ers re­turned home with eight medals, in­clud­ing a gold, one sil­ver, and six bronze medals, at the re­cent BGA Ju­nior In­ter­na­cional de Bad­minton 2026/Bu­cara­man­ga Ju­nior In­ter­na­tion­al held in Bu­cara­man­ga, Colom­bia, from Sep­tem­ber 1-6.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos — The Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has an­nounced that the tro­phy pre­sent­ed to each year’s play­er in­duct­ed in­to its Hall of Fame will be of­fi­cial­ly named the Sir Gar­ry Sobers Award, in trib­ute to the man uni­ver­sal­ly recog­nised as the great­est all-rounder West In­dies crick­et has ever pro­duced.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents roared back to form at the Kens­ing­ton Oval on Sun­day night, snap­ping a four-game los­ing streak with a re­sound­ing eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Saint Lu­cia Kings in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL).

Nata­nia Rowe scored a re­mark­able eight goals to lead host club Mag­no­lias to a 13-0 ham­mer­ing of Check­ers in their Women’s Un­der-21 semi­fi­nal when the 2026 Mag­no­lias Hock­ey5s Tour­na­ment con­tin­ued at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty, Wood­brook, on Sat­ur­day night.

Chinelle Hen­ry pulled off a stun­ning last-ball heist at Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos, pow­er­ing Ja­maica Em­press to a nail-bit­ing one-wick­et vic­to­ry on Sun­day over Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in their Li­ma­col WC­PL de­but.

In Sep­tem­ber 2015, the UN Gen­er­al As­sem­bly adopt­ed 17 Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals (SDGs) for the pe­ri­od 2015-2030. These goals ad­dress so­cial, eco­nom­ic, and eco­log­i­cal sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment is­sues to erad­i­cate pover­ty and po­si­tion the world’s de­vel­op­ment agen­da on a growth path.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two-time Olympic medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott end­ed his run of five ma­jor meets with­out a medal when he copped the bronze medal at the Wan­da Di­a­mond League in Brus­sels, Bel­gium on Sat­ur­day.

There was some­thing about be­ing at the Queen’s Park Oval dur­ing the re­cent CPL match­es that caught my at­ten­tion.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Sunil Nar­ine’s su­perb spell of spin bowl­ing proved to be too much for the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents to han­dle, as the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers record­ed a 35-run vic­to­ry to keep alive their im­prob­a­ble chance of qual­i­fy­ing for the play­offs in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League on Sat­ur­day night.