ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph and body­builder Melis­sa Seaforth took home the cov­et­ed awards of Se­nior Sports­man and Se­nior Sports­woman, re­spec­tive­ly, when the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Na­tion­al Sports Awards were held over the week­end.

Re­gret­tably, the West In­dies were knocked out of the ICC’s Men's T20 World Cup at the Su­per 8 stage by In­dia. While the West In­dies fell to In­dia, they did so play­ing the most in­spired crick­et we’ve seen from the is­lands in a gen­er­a­tion — no­ble, high-stakes, and ul­ti­mate­ly un­done by a sin­gle, un­stop­pable force.

MUM­BAI, In­dia – In a pul­sat­ing high-scor­ing semi­fi­nal en­counter at the Wankhede Sta­di­um, Bar­ba­di­an-born Ja­cob Bethell’s as­ton­ish­ing 105 from 48 balls proved just short of mirac­u­lous as Eng­land fell just sev­en runs short of a record-break­ing chase, hand­ing In­dia a nerve-shred­ding vic­to­ry and a place in the T20 World Cup fi­nal on Thurs­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The cur­tain has fall­en on the West In­dies’ cam­paign at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, and back home in the Caribbean, the as­sess­ment of the team’s show­ing is prov­ing to be a clas­sic case of good cop, bad cop.

A char­ter flight is cur­rent­ly be­ing arranged to trans­port the West In­dies se­nior men's T20 crick­et team safe­ly out of In­dia, where it has been strand­ed since Mon­day's de­feat against In­dia in a Su­per 8s match, con­firm­ing their ex­it from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

ST GEORGE’S, Grena­da – West In­dies Women’s head coach, Shane Deitz, has ex­pressed his dis­ap­point­ment with his team’s re­cent show­ing in their white-ball se­ries against Sri Lan­ka Women, which saw them lose both the One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) and T20I se­ries.

MI­A­MI, Flori­da – CON­CA­CAF has tak­en the de­ci­sion to dis­qual­i­fy both Guyana and An­guil­la from its Un­der-20 Qual­i­fiers af­ter a brawl broke out be­tween mem­bers from both sides dur­ing their clash on Sat­ur­day.

And yes, it is the Lenten sea­son and there­fore Chris­tians should un­der­stand its sig­nif­i­cance. Sim­i­lar­ly, all should un­der­stand the need to keep the in­ter­ests of every­one by not hav­ing ex­tra-long an­nounce­ments at the end of a Sun­day Mass.

Mon­key and go­ril­la chants, and ba­nana emo­jis di­rect­ed at Black ath­letes are preva­lent in Eu­rope. Black and brown foot­ballers face racist mi­croag­gres­sions in­tend­ed to hurt and sub­ju­gate.

T&T’s se­nior women’s foot­ball team will go af­ter its sec­ond win of the Con­ca­caf Women’s Qual­i­fiers when they take on Hon­duras at the Es­ta­dio Chela­to Ucles in Tegu­ci­gal­pa, Hon­duras, this evening from 9 pm.

MAN­AGUA – In a thrilling Group B en­counter of the 2025/26 Con­ca­caf W Qual­i­fiers, Ja­maica ral­lied from an ear­ly deficit to se­cure a hard-fought 3-2 vic­to­ry over Nicaragua at the Es­ta­dio Na­cional in Nicaragua on Tues­day.

KINGSTON – Ja­maica slumped to their sec­ond con­sec­u­tive loss at home in the FI­BA Amer­i­c­as World Cup Qual­i­fiers when they went down 97-81 to Cana­da on Sun­day.