GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – A Guyana Un­der-13 squad has been named by the Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB) to face Bar­ba­dos in a five-match 40-over se­ries at home be­gin­ning on Sat­ur­day.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – The West In­dies have suf­fered a ma­jor set­back with open­er Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul ruled out of the sec­ond Test against New Zealand be­cause of in­jury

Five Rivers Sec­ondary have every­thing to play for Wednes­day as they face Pleas­antville Sec­ondary in the Girls’ Na­tion­al In­ter­col fi­nal at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Bal­main, Cou­va, start­ing at 3 pm.

The Next Lev­el Per­for­mance (NLP) has part­nered with the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) to host the 2025 Na­tion­al Soc­cer Com­bine, an event that will bring to­geth­er the coun­try’s top 40 male and top 25 fe­male youth foot­ballers for three days of elite test­ing, com­pe­ti­tion, and in­ter­na­tion­al scout­ing ex­po­sure at the TTDF train­ing field, Mac­queripe, Ch­aguara­mas, from De­cem­ber 12 to 14.

The com­pet­i­tive dis­tance run­ning cal­en­dar for T&T’s 2026 ath­let­ics sea­son will of­fi­cial­ly be­gin with the Na­tion­al Cross Coun­try Cham­pi­onships 2025, an­nounced by the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) in a re­lease yes­ter­day.

In a blis­ter­ing and sober­ing as­sess­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go foot­ball, leg­endary for­mer Tech­ni­cal Di­rec­tor and icon­ic goal­keep­er Lin­coln “Tiger” Phillips has de­clared the na­tion’s re­cent World Cup qual­i­fy­ing fail­ure “no big sur­prise,” paint­ing a pic­ture of a sys­tem in pro­found cri­sis.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – All-rounder Justin Greaves has hailed Test crick­et as a “mas­sive step up” from the re­gion­al first-class cir­cuit, fol­low­ing a mon­u­men­tal match-sav­ing dou­ble cen­tu­ry that stunned New Zealand re­cent­ly.

Joseph de Maistre: “Toute na­tion a le gou­verne­ment qu’elle mérite.” Eng­lish: “Every na­tion has the gov­ern­ment it de­serves.”

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – The BLACK­CAPS’ fortress has be­come a hos­pi­tal ward, and with the West In­dies ar­riv­ing in Welling­ton with re­newed be­lief, New Zealand’s se­lec­tion pan­el is scram­bling to as­sem­ble a fit XI for the sec­ond Test start­ing on Tues­day.

LI­MA, Pe­ru – The crick­et fi­nals at the 2025 Bo­li­var­i­an Games in Li­ma, Pe­ru, de­liv­ered some high-oc­tane ac­tion as Bar­ba­dos and Ja­maica emerged vic­to­ri­ous to claim the cov­et­ed gold medals in the men’s and women’s com­pe­ti­tions, re­spec­tive­ly, at the Li­ma Po­lo club.

The dry sea­son in the Caribbean of­fers a great chance to en­joy out­door ac­tiv­i­ties like run­ning, cy­cling, walk­ing, and hik­ing, which are be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly pop­u­lar recre­ation­al choic­es. En­gag­ing in these phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties pro­vides var­i­ous health, men­tal, and so­cial ben­e­fits, mak­ing them ef­fec­tive, drug-free ways to sup­port a healthy lifestyle. Among these ac­tiv­i­ties, run­ning stands out as par­tic­u­lar­ly ac­ces­si­ble and ef­fec­tive as a vig­or­ous form of ex­er­cise with sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly proven ben­e­fits, es­pe­cial­ly in pre­vent­ing and man­ag­ing Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­eases (NCDs).

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shal­low has main­tained that there is no in­ten­tion to fire West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my, de­spite his los­ing record since tak­ing charge of all for­mats ear­li­er this year.