Though the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion awaits a new pro­pos­al from for­mer sports com­men­ta­tor Sel­wyn Melville to solve the on­go­ing is­sue for the ‘So­ca War­riors’ trade­mark, Pres­i­dent Kieron Ed­wards is re­mind­ing the pub­lic not to be di­vert­ed from the fo­cus, which is the qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the coun­try for the 2026 World Cup.

Look­ing at West In­dies crick­et from Tests to One Day­ers to T20, I can re­call some in­ter­est­ing quotes on the vi­a­bil­i­ty and suc­cess in plan­ning a busi­ness strat­e­gy or op­er­a­tion. Dig deep to see if any, some, all or none ap­ply to West In­dies crick­et fol­low­ing the third white­wash in a row (3-0 to Eng­land in One Day­ers and T20s, fol­lowed by last week’s 27 all out part of an­oth­er 3-0 an­ni­hi­la­tion this time by Aus­tralia in Tests).

New Chap­ter Acad­e­my (NCA) War­riors’ Jer­vais “JJ” Ed­wards-Carac­ci­o­lo ex­plod­ed for 24 points, in­clud­ing five three-point­ers, to en­sure that his team proud­ly brought home the Un­der-17 ti­tle from the Caribbean In­ter­na­tion­al Shootout (CIS) af­ter a thrilling fi­nal matchup against Pros­per ETX of Texas, USA.

Thir­teen-time na­tion­al women’s ta­ble ten­nis sin­gles cham­pi­on Aleena Ed­wards is cur­rent­ly con­duct­ing a ten-day train­ing camp for Grena­da’s top 20 un­der-23 ta­ble ten­nis play­ers.

KINGSTON – Vet­er­an West In­dies all-rounder Ja­son Hold­er says the re­gion­al side is still con­fi­dent of win­ning the se­ries de­spite los­ing the open­ing T20I to Aus­tralia on Sun­day.

Kyra Williams claimed T&T’s sec­ond medal of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in Li­ma, Pe­ru, on Sun­day night. The ris­ing T&T tal­ent sprint­ed to the bronze medal in the match sprint to add to the gold medal won by the trio of Ju­dah Nev­er­son, Je­lani Nedd and Javon Ram­roop in the team sprint.

Chris Richards Jr won the To­ba­go Golf Open Cham­pi­onships Di­vi­sion ti­tle for the third straight year when he scored 221 at this year’s edi­tion of the tour­na­ment at the Plan­ta­tion Golf Course, Mag­dale­na Beach and Golf Re­sort in Low­lands, To­ba­go from Ju­ly 18-20.

With three days to go be­fore the Se­nior Pan Amer­i­can Cup in Mon­te­v­ideo flicks off at the Can­cha Ce­leste in Mon­te­v­ideo, Uruguay, on Thurs­day, both the T&T se­nior men’s and women’s hock­ey teams are yet to have con­fir­ma­tion of their de­par­ture to the tour­na­ment.

KINGSTON – Hero­ics from pac­er Ben Dwarshuis and bats­men Mitchell Owen and Cameron Green pro­pelled Aus­tralia to a tense three-wick­et win over the West In­dies in the open­ing T20I in Ja­maica on Sun­day.

There are times when one may feel that the choice is an im­pos­si­ble one, which is to fol­low or­ders or to choose to fol­low one’s con­science. The choice to fol­low con­science, not can or may, will come with a heavy price. In­sti­tu­tion­al re­sis­tance, in­sti­tu­tion­al prej­u­dice and bias are re­al­i­ties.

T&T De­fence Force II used a first-half goal spree to come-from-be­hind and whip ri­vals T&T Po­lice FC 5-3 in an en­ter­tain­ing T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier II ‘Big Six’ fi­nal at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground, La Hor­quet­ta, on Sun­day night.

KINGSTON – West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope has ad­mit­ted that his side’s bat­ting col­lapse in the fi­nal overs of their in­nings is to blame for their three-wick­et loss to Aus­tralia in the open­ing T20I at Sabi­na Park, Ja­maica, on Sun­day.