When we think of mem­o­rable sport­ing mo­ments in T&T—a sold-out CPL (Crick­et Pre­mier League) match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) or an In­ter­col match be­tween arch ri­vals Na­pari­ma Boys’ Col­lege and Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, or No­vem­ber 19, 1989 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um when the T&T foot­ballers played the USA with a point need­ed to qual­i­fy for the 1990 FI­FA Italia World Cup, our minds fo­cus­es on the ath­leti­cism and the at­mos­phere.

There are mo­ments in a coun­try’s life when a sin­gle fig­ure be­comes more than suc­cess­ful, more than fa­mous, more than dom­i­nant. They be­come a ref­er­ence point—a con­stant that helps de­fine who we are while the world around us keeps shift­ing. For Trinidad and To­ba­go, Machel Mon­tano is that fig­ure.

MUM­BAI, In­dia – West In­dies left-arm spin­ner Akeal Ho­sein has promised that the re­gion­al team will not drop its guard when they come up against min­nows Nepal in their cru­cial ICC Men’s T20 World Cup con­test on Sun­day (Feb­ru­ary 15).

The 35-year-old strik­er, who re­mains a free agent af­ter be­ing re­leased by the Ham­mers last sum­mer, has been train­ing with the League One side as man­ag­er Nathan Jones looks to fill the fi­nal spot in his 25-man squad.

His­to­ry was made for T&T at the Win­ter Olympic Games in Italy on Sat­ur­day when alpine ski­er Nikhil Al­leyne took to the slopes.

​In the af­ter­math of failed World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion bids by the coun­try’s U-17 boys' and girls' teams, T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent Kieron Ed­wards has sum­moned new tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor Devin El­cock to de­vel­op pro­grammes to en­sure that the flaws that are ev­i­dent with the coun­try’s youth teams are cor­rect­ed and progress made at in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tions.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Min­is­ter of Sport, Olivia Grange has an­nounced that Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) match­es will re­turn to Ja­maica for the first time in sev­en years.

IS­LAM­ABAD, Pak­istan– Pak­istan Su­per League (PSL) out­fit Is­lam­abad Unit­ed has end­ed the con­tract of West In­dies fast bowler Shamar Joseph for the up­com­ing sea­son.

ARKANSAS – Julien Al­fred con­tin­ued her im­pres­sive buildup to next month’s World In­door Cham­pi­onships with an­oth­er im­pres­sive per­for­mance, this time at the Tyson In­vi­ta­tion­al in the Unit­ed States on Fri­day.

Roy­hil Seals Wa­ter Po­lo Club will field three teams at the an­nu­al South Flori­da In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter Po­lo Tour­na­ment in Coral Springs, Flori­da, in the Unit­ed States over the week­end on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der-17 head coach Ran­dolph Boyce be­lieves the coun­try must over­haul and ex­tend its youth de­vel­op­ment struc­ture if it is to con­sis­tent­ly com­pete with the re­gion’s elite.

ST GEORGE’S, Grena­da– Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has un­veiled a pow­er­ful 15-play­er West In­dies Women’s squad to host Sri Lan­ka in a three-match One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries, set to bowl off at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Sta­di­um from Feb­ru­ary 20.