All athletes need to be fit; this is as true for the equine athlete as it is for the human athlete. In T&T, it seems that our sporting administrators believe that fitness is all relative and while that might clearly suffice for internal competition, time and time again, the fallacy of that belief is proven on the international landscape.
ST GEORGE’S – Describing the West Indies’ batting effort as “not good enough”, West Indies head coach Daren Sammy has suggested that there might be some changes to the batting lineup for the third and final Test match against Australia.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews and her teammate Afy Fletcher have been nominated for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award for June after impressive performances in their recently concluded series against South Africa.
Title-holder Club Sando and Defence Force will meet in a highly anticipated final of the T&T Women’s League Football (WoLF) at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva, on Sunday (June 6) from 6 pm.
T&T’s Jahreef Miguel and Jerome Morrison finished in eighth spot at the NORCECA Under-21 Beach Volleyball Championships, the official qualification tournaments on the road to the 2025 FIVB Age-Group World Championships, which ended in the Dominican Republic on Sunday (July 6).
GEORGETOWN – Jamaica won their first-ever CARICOM Classic Team Chess tournament in spectacular fashion after Barbados shocked defending champions Trinidad and Tobago in the penultimate round on Sunday.
The T&T boys’ team just missed out on the top spot after going under to Guyana 16-17 in the Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships Boys Team final at the South Sound Squash Club in the Cayman Islands on Sunday (July 8).
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – International League T20 (ILT20) defending champions, Dubai Capitals have retained the services of West Indies T20 captain Shai Hope and Rovman Powell ahead of the 2025 season.
Cougars track and field club put on a spectacular performance on Sunday (July 6) to register their second consecutive success in the Mason Hall Police Youth Club (PYC) Juvenile Track Classic which was held at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain, instead of the traditional venue at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Tobago.
In part one, the first five West Indies ‘twin centurions’—George Headley [twice], Everton Weekes, Clyde Walcott [twice], Garfield Sobers, and Rohan Kanhai—were recognized. In part II, the next five West Indian ‘twin centurions’ are acknowledged.
July 4, there was an Op/Ed in a daily newspaper headline “Dirty Old Men”. The issue addressed by the columnist (Vaneisa Baksh) was valid and real. The writer highlighted the prevalence of incest, rape, molestation of every kind perpetrated on boys and girls.
An Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the T&T Boxing Association was stopped after members became agitated by accusations that T&T Boxing Association members were illegally occupying positions well beyond their allotted time.
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