Sev­er­al ex­ec­u­tive or­ders were is­sued by the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed State of Amer­i­ca, Joe Biden, when he took of­fice in 2021. Among them was one based on the pre­ven­tion of dis­crim­i­na­tion based on gen­der iden­ti­ty and sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion of stu­dent-ath­letes. This move was cel­e­brat­ed by many LGBTQ+ ac­tivists across the Unit­ed States as it meant that trans­gen­der ath­letes, es­pe­cial­ly trans fe­males, were now el­i­gi­ble to en­ter fe­male sports at the high school and col­le­giate lev­els. If any in­sti­tu­tion, es­pe­cial­ly those re­ceiv­ing fed­er­al fund­ing, re­fused ad­mit­tance to these ath­letes, they would face ad­min­is­tra­tive sanc­tions.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Ky­cia Knight’s un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry was enough to pow­er Bar­ba­dos Women to a con­vinc­ing eight-wick­et win over Ja­maica Women, and the cap­ture of their sec­ond straight Re­gion­al Su­per50 Cup on Sat­ur­day.

T&T’s Cherelle Thomp­son placed 26th over­all from a field of 82 swim­mers when she end­ed in the fourth spot in heat sev­en of ten in the women's 50 me­tres freestyle at the FI­NA World Long Course Cham­pi­onships at the Duna Are­na in Bu­dapest, Hun­gary on Fri­day.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Vanes­sa Watts and Chinelle Hen­ry both snatched five-wick­et hauls as Ja­maica rout­ed hosts Guyana for 23 to en­gi­neer an eight-wick­et win and a place in Sat­ur­day’s fi­nal of Women’s Su­per50 Cup.

Open­ing bats­man Mario Bel­con fi­nal­ly came good with 45 runs which helped Scor­pi­on Ti­tans Blue Dev­ils to a six-wick­et vic­to­ry over Vali­n­is Su­per­mar­ket Leatherback Gi­ants in the fi­nal of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Dream 11 Trinidad T10 Blast Tour­na­ment which con­clud­ed at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, on Fri­day.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Left-han­der Kyle May­ers struck a high-qual­i­ty un­beat­en hun­dred as West In­dies bounced back from a pre-lunch wob­ble to dom­i­nate Sat­ur­day’s sec­ond day of the sec­ond Test against Bangladesh.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced that Hay­ley Matthews has been ap­point­ed as the West In­dies Women’s Cap­tain. Matthews, who is one of the lead­ing all­rounders in world crick­et, will as­sume the lead­er­ship role from Stafanie Tay­lor ahead of the next West In­dies Women’s Se­ries, ex­pect­ed to be played lat­er this year.

GROS ISLET – Young fast bowlers Alzarri Joseph and Jay­den Seales grabbed three-wick­et hauls to pun­ish Bangladesh, as West In­dies seized con­trol of the sec­ond Test with a clin­i­cal open­ing day per­for­mance in St Lu­cia on Fri­day.

Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers will be con­fi­dent of ex­tend­ing their lead at the top of the ten-club As­cen­sion Foot­ball League stand­ings when they come up against Re­al West Fort in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble-head­er at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground, La Hor­quet­ta from 8 pm pn Fri­day night.

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent David John Williams died ear­li­er to­day.

Nathaniel James came off the bench to score his fourth goal in three match­es and set up the oth­er to fire T&T to a de­served 3-0 win over Suri­name in their must-win Group F fi­nal round match of the Con­ca­caf Men’s Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onship at the Es­ta­dio Olimpi­co Met­ro­pol­i­tano in San Pe­dro Su­la on Thurs­day night.

GROS ISLET – Mar­quee seam­er Ke­mar Roach en­ters the sec­ond Test against Bangladesh in St Lu­cia on Fri­day poised to be­come on­ly the sixth West In­dies bowler in his­to­ry to reach 250 wick­ets, but cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite said the loom­ing achieve­ment would not cloud the side’s fo­cus in their quest for a se­ries sweep.