Both Trinidad and To­ba­go Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion Pres­i­dent Rowe­na Williams and JLD Cy­cling Prin­ci­pal Njisane Phillip ex­pect the re­cent im­passe be­tween this coun­try’s elite sprint cy­clists and the Fed­er­a­tion to be re­solved by Fri­day.

Phillip, JLD’s Makaira Wal­lace, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee’s 2025 Ju­nior Sports­woman of the Year, and pro en­duro’s Alexi Cos­ta-Ramirez have pushed back against the TTCF’s planned Jan­u­ary 17th, 2026, tri­als for next year’s Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships.

On Tues­day High Court judge Jus­tice West­min James re­served judge­ment on their in­junc­tion and di­rect­ed the trio to sub­mit a pro­pos­al to the TTCF; if both par­ties are un­able to come to a so­lu­tion, a de­ci­sion will be made with ex­pe­di­en­cy.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports, yes­ter­day, Phillip said, “It’s still pend­ing be­tween the lawyers and every­thing with the courts, so I re­al­ly wouldn’t want to com­ment right now. It’s kind of dif­fi­cult to say be­cause we still haven’t come to a set­tle­ment or agree­ment to say we can reach some­where in be­tween. It’s a bit un­for­tu­nate right now, ac­tu­al­ly.”

De­spite this feel­ings, Phillip said the re­la­tion­ship be­tween both par­ties re­mains am­i­ca­ble.

“Every­thing else is just nor­mal; it’s an un­for­tu­nate sit­u­a­tion that we had to get here, but we still abide by the rules. We should come to an agree­ment some­time by the end of this week,” he end­ed.

TTCF Pres­i­dent, Rowe­na Williams, mean­while, de­fend­ed her body’s con­duct in the mat­ter.

“I think the Fed­er­a­tion, in its own sub­mis­sion, has shown where we have en­sured we are fair to all cy­clists, so it’s re­al­ly now left up to the courts to de­ter­mine that.

Williams added that such a sit­u­a­tion was un­prece­dent­ed, and hav­ing not seen any pro­pos­als just yet, she was re­serv­ing any com­mit­ment to con­cede ground.

The TTCF pres­i­dent ex­pressed her con­fu­sion about where the sit­u­a­tion had reached.

“There was con­sul­ta­tion that brought about this in the first place; con­sul­ta­tion was had with every­one, in­clud­ing the in­di­vid­u­als in­volved that brought the tri­als to Jan­u­ary 17,” Williams said, adding, “So, should we have con­tin­u­ous con­sul­ta­tion? I don’t think so.”

On De­cem­ber 1, 2025, lawyers for the group filed a law­suit over the fed­er­a­tion’s de­ci­sion to host the tri­als on Jan­u­ary 17, a month be­fore the cham­pi­onships.

Last week, they filed for the in­ter­im in­junc­tion stop­ping the tri­als.

In their court fil­ings, ob­tained by Guardian Me­dia Sports, the group’s mem­bers claimed that they were on­ly in­formed of the fed­er­a­tion’s de­ci­sion, tak­en in mid-Sep­tem­ber, on No­vem­ber 10.

They claimed that the move was in con­tra­ven­tion of the fed­er­a­tion’s se­lec­tion pol­i­cy, which states that tri­als should be sched­uled to take place on or be­fore 12 weeks pri­or to an event.

“The De­fen­dant has act­ed with­out prop­er rea­son and/or jus­ti­fi­ca­tion in de­vi­at­ing from its own se­lec­tion pol­i­cy,” they said.

They con­tend­ed that af­ter con­cerns were raised over the move, the fed­er­a­tion held an emer­gency meet­ing in which its mem­bers ap­proved the move by a vote of 14 for and six against.

They claimed that the vote was un­law­ful, as mem­bers were not ful­ly in­formed of the sit­u­a­tion.

In re­sponse to the ap­pli­ca­tion, the fed­er­a­tion filed af­fi­davits from sev­er­al mem­bers, who vot­ed in favour of the tri­als at the meet­ing.

The mem­bers all claimed that they were in­formed of the group’s le­gal con­cerns over the move and still vot­ed in favour of it, as they felt it was the most fair and ob­jec­tive se­lec­tion method in the cir­cum­stances.

The clubs and the cy­clists were rep­re­sent­ed by Dr Emir Crowne, Matthew Gayle, and Ja­son Jones, of New City Cham­bers. The fed­er­a­tion was rep­re­sent­ed by Zel­i­ca Haynes-Soo Hon, Ker­ri-Ann Oliv­er­ie, and Kali­fa Lovelace.