BU­DAPEST – Do­mini­ca’s Olympic cham­pi­on Thea La­Fond and Ja­maica’s Com­mon­wealth gold medal­list Ro­maine Beck­ford both failed to medal in their re­spec­tive events on the fi­nal day of the World Ath­let­ics Ul­ti­mate Cham­pi­onships in Hun­gary on Sun­day.

GROS ISLET – Saint Lu­cia’s na­tion­al net­ball team has with­drawn from next month’s Net­ball World Cup Syd­ney 2027 Qual­i­fi­er Amer­i­c­as in Bar­ba­dos due to fi­nan­cial rea­sons.

Tee­jay Cadiz net­ted a hand­ful of goals as Ball Blasters took ad­van­tage of a short-hand­ed Goal City to record an 11-2 win in the To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Pre­mier Di­vi­sion at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in Ba­co­let on Sun­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) run­ner-up Club San­do and Haiti’s Vi­o­lette will lock horns for top spot in Group B of the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup at the Es­ta­dio Cibao FC in San­ti­a­go de los Ca­balleros, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, on Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 15) from 7 pm.

​That was the lead head­line of a sto­ry pub­lished on www.mon­i­tor.co.ug. The ar­ti­cle de­tailed the am­bi­tious vi­sion of Regi­na Hellen Okoit Lun­y­olo, a de­ter­mined woman us­ing sport to trans­form her home coun­try of Ugan­da.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – De­spite suf­fer­ing a five-wick­et de­feat at the hands of the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors Women, de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents Women still man­aged to qual­i­fy for the play­offs of the Women’s Caribbean Pre­mier League.

Fam­i­ly sup­port strong­ly in­flu­ences youth par­tic­i­pa­tion in sport and phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana– For­mer West In­dies wick­et­keep­er/bats­man De­nesh Ramdin has been cho­sen to lead a West In­dies side in next month’s In­ter­na­tion­al Mas­ters Crick­et (IMC) Over-40s 45-over World Cup.

Mar­cus James of De­fence Force and the pair of Mag­no­lias play­ers, Nata­nia Rowe and Re­nal­lia Con­stan­tine, all scored hat-tricks as their re­spec­tive clubs flicked off the de­fence of their ti­tles in the T&T Hock­ey Board In­door Cham­pi­onships with com­mand­ing wins at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty, Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day (Sep­tem­ber 14).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents are the hottest team in the Caribbean Pre­mier League right now af­ter dis­man­tling the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors by six wick­ets to record their fourth straight win in Bar­ba­dos on Sun­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, on Fri­day signed a four-year Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) aimed at strength­en­ing the con­nec­tion be­tween foot­ball de­vel­op­ment, ed­u­ca­tion, re­search and pro­fes­sion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties with­in the sport in­dus­try.

Seon Ad­har and Amy Ra­jku­mar added bronze medals for Trinidad and To­ba­go when the GAM­MA Pan-Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onships con­tin­ued in Bo­gotá, Colom­bia, on Fri­day (Sep­tem­ber 11).