Vice pres­i­dent of the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) Calvin Hope has been urged to re­sign if the voice note that has been mak­ing the rounds on so­cial me­dia al­leged­ly us­ing foul lan­guage to­wards the Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos Mia Mot­t­ley.

The trio of De­fence Force (men's Open), Mag­no­lias (women's Open) and Queen's Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) in the vet­er­ans Over-40 will put their ti­tles on the line when the 20th edi­tion of the Ven­tures Hock­ey Club In­ter­na­tion­al In­vi­ta­tion­al In­door Hock­ey Tour­na­ment flicks off at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty, Hamil­ton-Hold­er Street, Wood­brook, Wednes­day from 5 pm.

A youth­ful T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) North-South Clas­sic is set to bowl off at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) on Thurs­day af­ter­noon in a day-night en­counter.

ABU DHABI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Dwayne Bra­vo has been named as head coach of the Abu Dhabi Knight Rid­ers for the 2025 In­ter­na­tion­al league T20 (ILT20).

T&T se­nior men’s in­door hock­ey coach Raphael Govia says his team will be head­ing to next month's FIH In­door Hock­ey World Cup in Porec, Croa­t­ia, to rat­tle some cages. The ac­tion will un­fold at the Za­li­ka Sport Cen­tre from Feb­ru­ary 3-9.

DHA­KA, Bangladesh – Niger Sul­tana Jo­ty will cap­tain Bangladesh Women’s team when they em­bark on their first-ever tour of the Caribbean lat­er this month.

The West In­dies Women crick­eters won 13 (52 per cent) of the 25 match­es played in 2024. They won ten (62.5 per cent) of 16 T20 match­es, in­clu­sive of the three wins at the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) T20 Women World Cup in the UAE. In three bi­lat­er­al ODI se­ries against Pak­istan, Sri Lan­ka, and In­dia, they won three (33.3 per cent) of the nine match­es.

Speedy AEK Athens mid­field­er and strik­er Levi Gar­cia ea­ger­ly awaits the op­por­tu­ni­ty to play for the T&T So­ca War­riors un­der new coach Dwight Yorke. 

KINGSTON, Ja­maica — At 36 years old, West In­dies all-rounder An­dre Rus­sell is de­ter­mined to ex­tend his crick­et­ing jour­ney, dri­ven by a com­mit­ment to nur­tur­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of re­gion­al tal­ent and con­tribut­ing to the team’s suc­cess in the lead-up to the 2026 ICC World Cup.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Two-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Set­tlers all but ce­ment­ed a play­off spot in the Bim10 crick­et tour­na­ment with an em­phat­ic eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over the win­less Voy­agers on Sat­ur­day.

For­mer long jumper Che Richards had some ad­vice for ath­letes at the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAATTs) End of Year Awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Wright­son Road, Port of Spain on Sat­ur­day - “ Com­mit your­selves to faith.”

Sev­er­al na­tions have faced chal­lenges such as crime, po­lit­i­cal in­sta­bil­i­ty, and so­cial de­spair yet found a path to hope and progress through sports, par­tic­u­lar­ly foot­ball. A clos­er look along with com­par­isons shows that these sto­ries res­onate with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cur­rent strug­gles and can serve as a source of in­spi­ra­tion.