T&T se­nior men’s foot­ball team coach Dwight Yorke kicked off their prepa­ra­tions for their up­com­ing Group B Con­ca­caf Fi­nal Round 2026 World Cup Qual­i­fi­er against Cu­ra­cao at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Fri­day at 8 pm with a light train­ing ses­sion at St Mary’s Col­lege Ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, St Clair on Mon­day.

Kieron Pol­lard rolled back the hands of time with a su­perb half cen­tu­ry that helped the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) earn a close 12-run vic­to­ry over the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots, to ex­tend their lead at the top of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League ta­ble on Mon­day.

Akeal Ho­sein un­der­mined Guyana Ama­zon War­riors with the ball and Alex Hales and Col­in Munro dom­i­nat­ed with the bat as the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers reg­is­tered a six-wick­et vic­to­ry, their fourth in suc­ces­sion, in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League on Sat­ur­day.

T&T se­nior men’s foot­ball team coach Dwight Yorke is ex­pect­ed to wel­come the core of over­seas-based play­ers from to­day as the So­ca War­riors be­gin prepa­ra­tions for their 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.

Since gain­ing in­de­pen­dence in 1962, Trinidad and To­ba­go have pro­duced sev­er­al world-class ath­letes and suc­cess­ful teams. These are some of our out­stand­ing sport­ing am­bas­sadors from yes­ter­year:

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'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.

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.

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.

De­vorn Jorsling, coach of T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier I cham­pi­ons T&T De­fence Force Elite, says the on­ly way his team will tru­ly ben­e­fit from Ja­maica’s Cav­a­lier FC drop­ping more points in the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup is if they come away with points when both teams meet next month.

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.