As Trinidad and To­ba­go gears up for Fri­day’s 2026 FI­FA World Cup qual­i­fi­er against Cu­raçao, there will be a lot hap­pen­ing off the pitch.

Phillip Watts, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, host­ed a meet­ing with mar­tial arts ath­letes Chelsea and Chris­t­ian Win­ter, along with se­nior Min­istry ex­ec­u­tives, yes­ter­day at the Min­is­ter’s of­fice to dis­cuss path­ways for fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to­ward in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion and con­tin­ued pro­gramme de­vel­op­ment.

T&T's Je­re­mi­ah Jankey and Michael Bur­kett spiked their way to the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Un­der-18 Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour­na­ment fi­nal with a hard-fought three-set win over Cay­man Is­land's Dy­lan Lynee and William Du­ty at the Cour­land Beach Sports Are­na, in Cour­land, Black Rock, To­ba­go on Sat­ur­day.

Play­er-of-the-Match Col­in Munro and skip­per Nicholas Pooran scored im­pres­sive half cen­turies as the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers dis­patched the win­less Bar­ba­dos Roy­als by sev­en wick­ets in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League match-up at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, on Fri­day night.

GROS ISLET – A spec­tac­u­lar open­ing part­ner­ship be­tween Tim Seifert and John­son Charles pow­ered the Saint Lu­cia Kings to a dom­i­nant sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots in Saint Lu­cia on Thurs­day and pro­pelled them to the top of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League.

ZURICH – Julien Al­fred wrote her name in the record books yet again when she de­liv­ered a com­mand­ing per­for­mance to win the women’s Di­a­mond League 100 me­tre ti­tle for the sec­ond straight year in Switzer­land on Thurs­day.

T&T se­nior men's foot­ball team coach Dwight Yorke has named the un­capped trio of de­fend­ers Ko­bi Hen­ry, Deron Payne and Jer­ron Jack­ie in a 35-man pro­vi­sion­al squad for this coun­try's Group B Con­ca­caf Fi­nal Round 2026 World Cup Qual­i­fi­er against Cu­ra­cao at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Fri­day from 8 pm.

The Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Un­der-18 Beach Vol­ley­ball Camp and Tour­na­ment served off at the Cour­land Beach Sports Are­na, in Cour­land, Black Rock, To­ba­go, on Wednes­day (Au­gust 27).

Phillip Watts, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, host­ed a cour­tesy call with Pe­te Rus­sell, chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), to strength­en ties to help ad­vance crick­et and youth de­vel­op­ment across T&T and the wider West In­dies.

The 2025 Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League’s (SS­FL) cer­e­mo­ni­al sea­son-open­er will be a grudge match be­tween two-time de­fend­ing Boys’ Pre­mier Di­vi­sion cham­pi­ons Fa­ti­ma Col­lege and Co­ca-Co­la In­ter-Col na­tion­al ti­tle-hold­ers St Bene­dict’s Col­lege on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 12, at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, from 5.30 pm.

T&T men's beach vol­ley­ball duo of Stephen Enile and Josi­ah Butch­er will be one of 15 teams com­pet­ing in the sixth stop of the NORCE­CA Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour at the renowned Playa Azul, lo­cat­ed next to Plaza Pun­to Bahía in Man­zanil­lo, Col­i­ma, Mex­i­co, from Fri­day (Au­gust 29) un­til Sun­day (Au­gust 31).

Kea­cy Car­ty and Alex Hales scored half-cen­turies to lead the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers to a com­fort­able eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over the streaky An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons on Wednes­day in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League.