Conde Ri­ley has been asked to with­draw his state­ment that West In­dies head coach Phil Sim­mons has en­dan­gered the lives of West In­dies crick­eters by leav­ing the bio-se­cure bub­ble to at­tend the fu­ner­al of his fa­ther-in-law in Eng­land.

It is ac­cept­ed that a bit of healthy com­pe­ti­tion in any field is known to en­hance mo­ti­va­tion and gen­er­ate in­creased ef­fort from among those com­pet­ing.

Pan Amer­i­can bronze medal­list Michael Alexan­der is among five T&T box­ers on the In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (AI­BA) World rank­ings list.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Az­im Bas­sarath says that the cur­rent CEO of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) John­ny Grave will lead the re­gion­al crick­et body out of the cur­rent fi­nan­cial cri­sis.

Rod­dy Es­t­wick, West In­dies as­sis­tant coach, has ad­mit­ted he is slight­ly trou­bled by the team's top-or­der bat­ting form ahead of the Test se­ries against Eng­land but in­sists there is no con­cern over cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er's form.

The cab­i­net of the gov­ern­ment of T&T has not signed off on the CPL tour­na­ment be­ing played in this coun­try as yet and has asked fur­ther ques­tions of the own­ers of the tour­na­ment.

Na­tion­al coach Ter­ry Fen­wick is ma­noeu­vring the chal­lenges of a less-than-ide­al lead­er­ship, the se­lec­tion of in­ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers, to peo­ple who are not in favour of him be­ing na­tion­al coach, as well as lit­tle to no fi­nances, to turn around the for­tunes of T&T foot­ball.

T&T Par­a­lympic gold medal­ist Akeem Stew­art re­ceived the To­ba­go Medal of Ho­n­our Gold dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny at the Tourism Build­ing in Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go on Thurs­day.

The 2020 sea­son of the As­cen­sion In­vi­ta­tion­al Foot­ball League (AI­FL) is miss­ing the ap­proval of the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee which is head­ed by chair­man, Robert Hadad, for ap­proval to kick-off.

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) na­tion­al play­er, Mau­rice Joseph, has joined Dave Paulsen's staff at George Ma­son Uni­ver­si­ty as an as­sis­tant bas­ket­ball coach on the com­pet­i­tive At­lantic 10 Con­fer­ence in the Na­tion­al Col­le­giate Ath­let­ic As­so­ci­a­tion (NCAA) di­vi­sion 1.

For­mer Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed Sub-ed­i­tor Kelvin Choy died on Sun­day. Choy, who was 79, start­ed at the Dai­ly Mir­ror news­pa­pers in 1963 be­fore he joined the Guardian and worked for more than two decades up to his re­tire­ment in 2001. How­ev­er, he nev­er left the es­tab­lish­ment and con­tin­ued as a free­lance sub-ed­i­tor and copy­read­er for all of the news­pa­pers' pub­li­ca­tions which in­clud­ed news, sports, fea­tures and busi­ness. He fi­nal­ly left the or­gan­i­sa­tion in 2017.

T&T Red Force bats­man Joshua Da Sil­va con­tin­ued his im­pres­sive bat­ting form in Eng­land, scor­ing an un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry to his un­beat­en first-in­nings cen­tu­ry as the West In­dies ver­sus West In­dies A warm-up match at the Emi­rates Old Traf­ford crick­et ground in Eng­land end­ed in a draw on Thurs­day.