Star cy­clist Nicholas Paul and vet­er­an women's crick­eter Anisa Mo­hammed will lead the 50-mem­ber TeamT­TO del­e­ga­tion con­firmed by the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) yes­ter­day, for the na­tion's his­toric de­but at the Bo­li­var­i­an Games in Ay­acu­cho, Li­ma, Pe­ru from No­vem­ber 22 - De­cem­ber 7.

​Paul, a lead­ing track sprint­er, will be one of 32 ath­letes com­pet­ing for TeamT­TO across the three sports in­clud­ing cy­cling, men's and women's crick­et, and surf­ing. He will be joined by fel­low cy­clist Makaira Wal­lace. El­isha Greene (coach/me­chan­ic) and Ian Cole (man­ag­er) will sup­port the cy­cling duo.

​The 50-mem­ber T&T del­e­ga­tion (32 ath­letes and 18 of­fi­cials) com­pris­es ath­letes, coach­es, med­ical per­son­nel, and sup­port staff.

​Mo­hammed will fea­ture in the 14-mem­ber women's team, which will al­so have the ex­pe­ri­enced Kar­ish­ma Ramharack, Sha­nia Ab­dool, and Brit­ney Coop­er in­clud­ed. Their coach­ing and man­age­ment team in­cludes leg­endary crick­eter and coach Meris­sa Aguilleira and man­ag­er Mar­jorie Thomas.

​The 15-man squad in­cludes Vikash Mo­han, An­drew Ram­baran, Crys­t­ian Thur­ton, and Daniel Williams. Of­fi­cials in­clude coach­es Ke­ston Har­ryper­sad and Earnil Ryan, man­ag­er Omar Khan, and as­sis­tant man­ag­er Adri­an Ali.

​Aiden Al­ba­da will rep­re­sent T&T in the surf­ing event, ac­com­pa­nied by Ed­ward Al­ba­da (man­ag­er/coach).

​Lead­ing the del­e­ga­tion is the TTOC’s ex­pe­ri­enced Chef de Mis­sion Lovie San­tana-Duke, sup­port­ed by ad­min­is­tra­tive per­son­nel Jariel Mc Collin and press at­taché Ki­ra Alexan­der. The med­ical staff in­cludes Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Shak­ti Ram­sawak, phys­io­ther­a­pist De­mi Gue­vara, and mas­sage ther­a­pist Brent El­der.

​Chef de Mis­sion San­tana-Duke said: “It is an ho­n­our to lead T&T’s first-ever del­e­ga­tion to the Bo­li­var­i­an Games. This mo­ment rep­re­sents far more than par­tic­i­pa­tion; it re­flects the com­mit­ment of our ath­letes, the ded­i­ca­tion of their sup­port teams, and the pride of our na­tion. We are step­ping on­to a new stage with con­fi­dence, dis­ci­pline, and uni­ty, and I am proud of the ex­cep­tion­al group of ath­letes and of­fi­cials who will rep­re­sent our coun­try.”

A Strate­gic de­but for Olympic prepa­ra­tion

Pres­i­dent of the TTOC, Di­ane Hen­der­son, added: “This is a land­mark mo­ment for Trinidad and To­ba­go sport. Our ath­letes will have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to com­pete on a new in­ter­na­tion­al stage and gain in­valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence in par­tic­u­lar our crick­et teams vy­ing to qual­i­fy for the LA28 Olympics, as they pre­pare for fu­ture re­gion­al and glob­al com­pe­ti­tions. We com­mend their ded­i­ca­tion and look for­ward to wit­ness­ing their con­tin­ued growth and suc­cess.”

​Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Bo­li­var­i­an Games pro­vides in­valu­able com­pet­i­tive ex­pe­ri­ence for na­tion­al ath­letes, par­tic­u­lar­ly with­in sports where re­gion­al depth strength­ens in­ter­na­tion­al readi­ness. Im­por­tant­ly, it al­so aligns with T&T’s broad­er strate­gic prepa­ra­tions for the Pan Amer­i­can Games, which sit with­in the qual­i­fi­ca­tion struc­ture for fu­ture Olympic par­tic­i­pa­tion.

Of par­tic­u­lar note, the emer­gence of crick­et as a re­turn­ing Olympic sport at Los An­ge­les 2028 un­der­scores the im­por­tance of in­ter­na­tion­al mul­ti-sport ex­po­sure. The Bo­li­var­i­an Games and the Pan Amer­i­can Games may play a mean­ing­ful role in the com­pet­i­tive readi­ness and rank­ing struc­tures that will in­flu­ence the Caribbean’s prospects for Olympic rep­re­sen­ta­tion in crick­et.

About the Bo­li­var­i­an Games

​The Games are a re­gion­al mul­ti-sport event es­tab­lished in 1938 to ho­n­our the lega­cy of Simón Bolí­var, the Venezue­lan mil­i­tary and po­lit­i­cal leader who played a piv­otal role in the in­de­pen­dence of sev­er­al South Amer­i­can na­tions. Cre­at­ed by the Bo­li­var­i­an Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ODE­BO), the Games pro­mote uni­ty, friend­ship, and ath­let­ic ex­cel­lence among the coun­tries lib­er­at­ed by Bolí­var.

Over time, the event has ex­pand­ed to wel­come as­so­ciate mem­bers and in­vit­ed na­tions, re­flect­ing deep­ened co­op­er­a­tion and in­clu­sion across the re­gion. Held every four years, the Games fea­ture a di­verse range of Olympic and non-Olympic sports and serve as an im­por­tant plat­form for emerg­ing ath­letes.

​T&T will join four of its Caribbean neigh­bours in par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 2025 edi­tion, mark­ing grow­ing re­gion­al ties and col­lab­o­ra­tion as the na­tions pre­pare to meet on the shores of Li­ma.

T&T's del­e­ga­tion

Chef de Mis­sion Lovie San­tana-Duke

Ad­min­is­tra­tive Per­son­nel Jariel Mc Collin

Press At­tache Ki­ra Alexan­der

Med­ical Of­fi­cers

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Shak­ti Ram­sawak

Phys­io­ther­a­pist - De­mi Gue­vara

Mas­sage Ther­a­pist - Brent El­der

Surf­ing

Ath­lete: Aiden Al­ba­da

Of­fi­cial: Ed­ward Al­ba­da (man­ag­er/coach)

Crick­et

Men ath­letes: Vikash Mo­han, An­drew Ram­baran, Crys­t­ian Thur­ton, Damion Joachim, Daniel Williams, De­journ Charles, Jesse Bootan, Kamil Pooran, Kyle Ram­doo, Leonar­do Julien, Mikkel Govia, Sameer Ali, Shaaron Lewis, Joshua Davis, Tesha­won Cas­tro.

Of­fi­cials: Ke­ston Har­ryper­sad (coach), Earnil Ryan (coach), Omar Khan (man­ag­er), Adri­an Ali (as­sis­tant man­ag­er)

Women Ath­letes: Kar­ish­ma Ramharack, Sha­nia Ab­dool, Bri­an­na Har­richa­ran, Keni­ka Cas­sar, Anisa Mo­hammed, Shunelle Sawh, Sama­ra Ram­nath, Djen­a­ba Joseph, Kir­by­i­na Alexan­der, Lee Ann Kir­by, Na­dia Mo­hammed, Brit­ney Coop­er, Ameila Khan, Am­ri­ta Ram­ta­hal

Of­fi­cials: Meris­sa Aguilleira (coach), Mar­jorie Thomas (man­ag­er), Wayne Samuel (S&C coach), Kelvin Williams (as­sis­tant coach), Delian­nys Es­pinoza Her­rera (Mgt. Asst)

Cy­cling

Ath­letes: Nicholas Paul, Makaira Wal­lace

Of­fi­cials: El­isha Greene (coach/me­chan­ic), Ian Cole (man­ag­er)