West In­dies all-rounder Dwayne Bra­vo was in­spired to write a new song on "Not Giv­ing Up" dur­ing this crit­i­cal time in T&T’s his­to­ry which is chal­lenged by coro­n­avirus - COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Hours be­fore, FI­FA an­nounced a nor­mal­i­sa­tion com­mit­tee to run T&T foot­ball, Math­ew GW Gayle, one of the le­gal team for the dis­band­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) ad­min­is­tra­tion led by William Wal­lace told An­dre Er­rol Bap­tiste on Is­ports pro­gramme on Thurs­day night on I95.5fm, made a bold de­c­la­ra­tion on be­half of their client on the on­go­ing mat­ter.

FI­FA has ap­point­ed busi­ness­man Robert Hadad to head a three-mem­ber Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee to over­see the re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, fol­low­ing its de­ci­sion to take over the re­or­gan­i­sa­tion of the lo­cal body from William Wal­lace and his ex­ec­u­tive re­cent­ly.

A three-mem­ber FI­FA nor­mal­iza­tion com­mit­tee (NC), head­ed by chair­man Robert Hadad, was ap­point­ed on Fri­day to take over the gov­er­nance of T&T foot­ball with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

For­mer ace West In­dies bat­ting coach, To­by Rad­ford has gone glob­al to help crick­eters stay fo­cused dur­ing the killer Coro­n­avirus (COVID19) pan­dem­ic.

Dead­line for the World Net­ball Youth Cup Qual­i­fiers for Un­der-21 play­ers has been ex­tend­ed due to COVID-19.

"There is life af­ter COVID19 and the COVID19 pan­dem­ic and I see the CYGTT2021 as play­ing a very im­por­tant part in be­ing a cat­a­lyst for the post-COVID19 pan­dem­ic life and era."

A de­ci­sion on when or if the T&T Hock­ey Board Out­door League 2020 sea­son com­mences will not be made un­til a clear­er pic­ture be­comes avail­able with re­gards to­wards the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) world pan­dem­ic that has so far ac­count­ed for one death and 61 con­firmed cas­es lo­cal­ly.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) vice pres­i­dent Dr. Kishore Shal­low has giv­en the or­ga­ni­za­tion’s ad­min­is­tra­tion a pass­ing grade for its first year in of­fice, point­ing to im­prove­ments in just about all ar­eas of the 10-point plan which the Ricky Sker­ritt-led team had used as a plat­form for elec­tion.

In­stead of shoot­ing for the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sport, the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) has opt­ed to pass. The sur­prise de­ci­sion comes four days af­ter world foot­ball’s gov­ern­ing body, the FI­FA failed to meet the TTFA’s 8:00 am dead­line of Mon­day 23, March to re­spond to con­cerns about the nor­mal­iza­tion com­mit­tee it an­nounced will be is com­ing to run the day to day af­fairs of T&T foot­ball last Tues­day in place of the TTFA four elect­ed of­fi­cers which in­clud­ed Pres­i­dent William Wal­lace and the Board of Di­rec­tors.

The dust raised by sud­den and swift foot­ball takeover here in T&T has not yet set­tled and nei­ther will it set­tle soon, Es­pe­cial­ly if the oust­ed ad­min­is­tra­tion con­tin­ues to pur­sue me­di­a­tion through the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sport (CAS) on FI­FA’s de­ci­sion to ap­point a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee here in T&T.

Coach of the T&T Red Force fran­chise Mervyn Dil­lon is dis­ap­point­ed that the West In­dies Cham­pi­onships had to end ear­ly but sat­is­fied with his team's sec­ond-place fin­ish in the tour­na­ment.