Tyri­co Red­man-Bel­lamy and Ja­mar­co John­son scored two goals each as Bar­ba­dos made it two wins from as many match­es with a straight­for­ward 7-1 ham­mer­ing of Sint Mar­tin in the open­ing match of a Group A dou­ble-head­er in the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Men’s Qual­i­fiers on Sat­ur­day.

Play­ing at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, the Bar­ba­di­ans, who stunned host T&T 1-0 on Tues­day’s open­ing night thanks to a 75th-minute ef­fort from Adam King, went ahead as ear­ly as the first minute through Je­mari Hen­ry.

Tyri­co Red­man-Bel­lamy dou­bled the ad­van­tage for the Bar­ba­di­ans in the 16th minute, and three min­utes lat­er, John­son scored his first from the penal­ty spot, beat­ing goal­keep­er Aiden James.

Ashaun Gre­cia then made it 4-0 in the 31st minute, quick­ly fol­lowed by a sec­ond for Red­man-Bel­lamy in the 33rd minute for a com­mand­ing 5-0 cush­ion at half-time.

On the re­sump­tion, it was just a mat­ter of how much more the Bar­ba­di­ans would get, but against the run of play, Sint Mar­tin man­aged to score their first goal in three match­es when sub­sti­tute Ja­maly Fontenelle, who re­placed Deion Pan­tophlet, found the back of the net in the 61st minute, beat­ing Kaliq Lash­ley in goal for Bar­ba­dos, as they con­ced­ed their first goal of the tour­na­ment as well.

Bar­ba­dos even­tu­al­ly re­sumed their on­slaught, with Reuben Gar­nes-Al­leyne get­ting their sixth item in the 64th minute be­fore John­son com­plet­ed his dou­ble five min­utes.

De­spite the lop­sided score­line, Sint Mar­tin play­ers kept at their task and man­aged to keep the Bar­ba­di­ans score­less for the fi­nal 26 min­utes of the match, while the Bar­ba­di­ans end­ed the match with ten play­ers af­ter right-back Shakari Scott, who was in­tro­duced at the in­ter­val for Amari Small, was is­sued a sec­ond yel­low card by ref­er­ee Er­ic De La Cruz af­ter first be­ing cau­tioned in the 53rd.

Last night, Mex­i­co, the group favourites and win­ners of their lone match to date, 10-0 over Sint Maarten on Thurs­day, faced Saint Mar­tin.

Group A ac­tion re­sumes to­mor­row (Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 9) with an­oth­er dou­ble-head­er fea­tur­ing host T&T, 1-0 win­ners over Saint Mar­tin on Thurs­day last, and Sint Maarten from 4 pm, fol­lowed by a top-of-the-ta­ble clash be­tween Bar­ba­dos and Mex­i­co from 7 pm.

In the fi­nal match on Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 12, Saint Mar­tin plays Bar­ba­dos from 4 pm, fol­lowed by Mex­i­co vs T&T three hours lat­er.

At the end of the round-robin group se­ries, on­ly the group win­ner will ad­vance to the FI­FA Un­der-17 World Cup to be held in Qatar in No­vem­ber.

Over­all, 33 Con­ca­caf Mem­ber As­so­ci­a­tions are com­pet­ing in the 2026 edi­tion of the com­pe­ti­tion from across six venues, with the eight group win­ners qual­i­fy­ing for the 2026 FI­FA U-17 World Cup.

In ad­di­tion to T&T, the oth­er host na­tions in­clude Hon­duras, St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, Pana­ma, Cos­ta Ri­ca, and Guatemala.

In the pre­vi­ous edi­tion of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Qual­i­fiers, played un­der the same for­mat, Cana­da, Cos­ta Ri­ca, El Sal­vador, Haiti, Hon­duras, Mex­i­co, Pana­ma, and the USA topped their re­spec­tive groups to se­cure qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the FI­FA Un­der-17 World Cup Qatar 2025.

Yes­ter­day’s Group A re­sult

Bar­ba­dos 7 (Tyri­co Red­man-Bel­lamy 16th, 33rd, Ja­mar­co John­son 19th pen, 69th, Je­mari Hen­ry 1st, Ashaun Gre­cia 31st, Reuben Gar­nes-Al­leyne 64th) vs Sint Mar­tin 1 (Ja­maly Fontenelle 61st)

Lat­est Group A stand­ings

Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*GD*Pts

1. Bar­ba­dos*3*3*0*0*8*1*7*6

2. Mex­i­co*1*1*0*0*10*0*10*3

3. Saint Mar­tin*2*1*0*1*3*1*2*3

4. T&T*2*1*0*1*1*1*0*3

5. Sint Maarten*3*0*0*3*1*20*-19*0

Re­main­ing Group A sched­ule

Venue: Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo

Feb­ru­ary 9: Sint Maarten vs T&T, 4 pm; Bar­ba­dos vs Mex­i­co, 7 pm

Feb­ru­ary 12: Saint Mar­tin vs Bar­ba­dos, 4 pm; Mex­i­co vs T&T, 7 pm

T&T Un­der-17 Boys Con­ca­caf ros­ter

Goal­keep­ers

Necose Moore (St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege/T&T), Levi Williams (In­ter Mi­a­mi/USA), Mikhail Clement (Na­pari­ma Col­lege/Cox Foot­ball Acad­e­my/T&T)

De­fend­ers

Jay­lon Roberts (St Mary’s Col­lege/Car­di­nals Foot­ball Acad­e­my/T&T), Je­re­mi­ah Daniel (Na­pari­ma Col­lege/Union Hall/T&T), Ke­nai Richard­son (Fa­ti­ma Col­lege/Cox Foot­ball Acad­e­my), An­to­nio Hills (Na­pari­ma Col­lege/Club San­do FC/T&T).

Mid­field­ers

Reagen Rowe (Fa­ti­ma Col­lege/City FC/T&T), Se­bastien James (Na­pari­ma Col­lege/Cox Coach­ing School/T&T), Dono­van Dray­ton Jr (Na­pari­ma Col­lege/T&T), Finn De Fre­itas (St Mary’s Col­lege/City FC), Adriel Fau­re (St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege/T&T), Chris­t­ian Pitt (Toron­to FC Acad­e­my/Cana­da), An­tu­an Loui­son (Fa­ti­ma Col­lege/T&T), Akel Vesprey (Munro Col­lege/Ja­maica)

For­wards

Ja­sai Theophilus (QRC/Pro Se­ries/T&T), Je­re­mai Nan­ton (Fa­ti­ma Col­lege/City FC/T&T), Je­lani Stoute (St Bene­dict’s Col­lege/T&T), Kanye Gals­gow (T&T), Je­lani Stoute (St Bene­dict’s Col­lege/T&T), J’Meke Watkins (Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary/T&T),