CAVE HILL – In a one-sided se­ries de­cider at the Three Ws Oval on Tues­day, South Africa Women de­liv­ered a com­mand­ing per­for­mance to de­feat West In­dies by 166 runs (DLS method), se­cur­ing a 2-1 ODI se­ries vic­to­ry in Bar­ba­dos.

Na­tion­al coach Dwight Yorke has ad­mit­ted that his team was poor in every de­part­ment of Sun­day's open­ing Con­ca­caf Gold Cup, Group D match against the host Unit­ed States, which led to a con­vinc­ing 5-0 drub­bing for them at Pay­Pal Park in San Jose, Cal­i­for­nia.

With the T&T men’s foot­ball team in­to their fi­nal round of qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the 2026 World Cup, pres­i­dent of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), Kieron Ed­wards says the na­tion­al team re­quires around US$9 mil­lion to help them prop­er­ly pre­pare.

ST JOHN’S – Pac­ers Kelvin Pit­man and Rane­ico Smith took three wick­ets apiece to pro­pel West In­dies Acad­e­my to a se­ries-lev­el­ling in­nings and 26-run win over Sri Lan­ka Emerg­ing Play­ers just af­ter lunch on the third day of their sec­ond four-day match at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground in An­tigua on Mon­day.

The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) are set to play all five of their home fix­tures in the 2025 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) at the world-class Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) in Tarou­ba, south­ern Trinidad. This state-of-the-art venue serve as the host for the CPL leg in T&T, show­cas­ing top-tier crick­et in one of the Caribbean’s pre­mier sport­ing are­nas.

Yes­ter­day was the ob­ser­vance of the Unit­ed Na­tions “In­ter­na­tion­al Day of the African Child” com­mem­o­rat­ed an­nu­al­ly on June 16. The day is in ho­n­our of those young peo­ple who strug­gled and lost their lives in the 1976 Sowe­to Up­ris­ing in South Africa. The stu­dents were protest­ing for bet­ter ed­u­ca­tion for black chil­dren. The day com­mem­o­rates the killing of African school­child­ren in Sowe­to by the Apartheid gov­ern­ment.

BREADY, Ire­land – New­ly ap­point­ed West In­dies T20 cap­tain Shai Hope is re­lieved that the team end­ed its tour of Ire­land on a win­ning note af­ter a dis­ap­point­ing tour of the UK where they were sound­ly beat­en by Eng­land.

A ram­pant Steel­pan Play­ers, led by Sidel Di­az, romped to their fourth win of the Dream XI Trinidad T10 Blast at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day, with a nine-wick­et win over sec­ond-placed So­ca Kings.

Point Guard Sadi­ki Guer­ra guid­ed Strak­er Nets to its sec­ond straight win in the Kelvin Roberts North Zone Bas­ket­ball League at the Wood­brook Youth Cen­tre in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Levi Gar­cia on ty­ing the knot with his part­ner, may God bless you both to in­fin­i­ty and be­yond. Not sur­prised at the loss to the USA, it was com­ing, I and for­mer na­tion­al de­fend­er Bri­an Williams saw it com­ing.

Ajani Ti­tus-Baynes and Paula Be­tan­cur won the men’s and women’s ver­sions of the Siparia Soc­cer Stars FC 5K, which took place from Syne Vil­lage to the Siparia Sports Com­plex at Ir­win Park Sa­van­nah on Sun­day. The race theme was Ho­n­our­ing Siparia Icons, and is part of the Siparia Bor­ough Day Month of ac­tiv­i­ties, which will con­clude with a Cul­tur­al Ex­trav­a­gan­za on June 28.

Ac­cord­ing to the Unit­ed Na­tions Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees [UN­HCR], the an­nu­al com­mem­o­ra­tion of World Refugee Day on June 20 recog­nis­es the strength, courage, and de­ter­mi­na­tion of peo­ple who have been ‘forced to flee their home coun­try to es­cape con­flict and per­se­cu­tion’. https://www.un­hcr.org/get-in­volved/take-ac­tion/world-refugee-day. In 2001, the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly an­nounced the com­mem­o­ra­tion of World Refugee Day on June 20 in recog­ni­tion of the 50th an­niver­sary of the 1951 Con­ven­tion Re­lat­ing to the Sta­tus of Refugees. https://www.un­hcr.org/get-in­volved/take-ac­tion/world-refugee-day