I was very sad­dened to hear of the pass­ing of Mervyn Moore. He was 80. I first en­coun­tered Moore, for­mer prin­ci­pal of Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, when I en­tered as a stu­dent. Ex­treme­ly ear­ly on, I re­alised his love for sports.

FI­FA, the world gov­ern­ing body for foot­ball, is set to be de­fend­ed at all cost for its po­si­tion to ap­point a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee to take charge of lo­cal foot­ball and there­by oust­ing the le­git­i­mate­ly elect­ed team of pres­i­dent William Wal­lace, Clynt Tay­lor, Joseph Sam Phillip and Su­san Joseph-War­rick when the case comes up on June 16. FI­FA was giv­en 28 days to file its de­fence which was served on it on May 19.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Chair­man of the CARI­COM sub-com­mit­tee on crick­et, Dr Ralph Gon­salves, has thrown his sup­port be­hind the West In­dies’ pro­posed tour of Eng­land once all the risks as­so­ci­at­ed with the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic are man­aged.

Aus­tralian-based T&T se­nior women's team net­baller, Saman­tha Wal­lace, says she is hop­ing for a full sea­son of com­pe­ti­tion when Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball League's Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Chris Syming­ton pro­vides an up­date on to the clubs on the state of the sea­son by Sun­day (May 31).

Rug­by's ea­ger­ness to re­sume the sport this year will take it to Sep­tem­ber when the new school term is sched­uled to open, Col­in Pe­ters, pres­i­dent of the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union (TTR­FU) said yes­ter­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – West In­dies fast bowler Ke­mar Roach is hap­py to be back in the swing of things as he pre­pares for the pro­posed tour of Eng­land start­ing next month.

Lo­cal net­baller Sophia Harp­er passed away on Sun­day, los­ing a short bat­tle with breast can­cer. She was 41.

Since my last ar­ti­cle a few weeks ago re­lat­ing to this TTFA/FI­FA saga, I gen­uine­ly thought things would have got­ten bet­ter. How sil­ly was I? Every day, a dif­fer­ent head­line ap­pears in the me­dia and I have been fol­low­ing the bat­tle in­tense­ly.

The re­sump­tion of lo­cal rac­ing looks ques­tion­able, even though the Ari­ma Race Club (ARC) is putting things in place for a re­sump­tion be­hind closed doors on Labour Day - June 19, that is, if the gov­ern­ment gives the green light for the ARC to pro­ceed and all the pro­to­cols which are nec­es­sary from the Min­istry of Health are put in place.

Mush­taque Mo­hammed, pres­i­dent of the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF), has wel­comed the move by the Fed­er­a­tion de In­ter­na­tion­al Vol­ley­ball (FIVB) to launch an Ath­letes Re­lief Sup­port Fund to pro­vide short-term as­sis­tant to pro­fes­sion­al vol­ley­ball and beach vol­ley­ball play­ers who have been af­fect­ed fi­nan­cial­ly by the glob­al coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic.

West In­dies’ slump in the world Twen­ty20(T20) rank­ings is of lit­tle con­cern to head coach Phil Sim­mons, but be­lieves it can work to his side’s ad­van­tage if the T20 World Cup comes off in Aus­tralia this Oc­to­ber.

T&T se­nior net­ball team duo, goal-at­tack Kali­fa Mc Collin and goal de­fence Daystar Swift, have been busy in train­ing as they pre­pare for the re­sump­tion of the ANZ Pre­mier­ship on June 19 in New Zealand.