BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – A con­fi­dent West In­dies Un­der-19 squad de­part­ed Bridgetown’s Grant­ley Adams In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Tues­day, bound for the ICC Un­der-19 World Cup in Namib­ia and Zim­bab­we.

SYD­NEY, Aus­tralia – In the fad­ing light of the fourth day at the SCG, amidst the re­lent­less pres­sure of an Ash­es de­cider, Ja­cob Bethell carved his name in­to crick­et­ing folk­lore.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Reg­gae Girlz goal­keep­er Yazmeen Jamieson will turn out for FC Berlin in the Ma­jor Are­na Soc­cer League Women’s Di­vi­sion (MASLW) this win­ter sea­son.

MUM­BAI, In­dia – As the Women’s Pre­mier League (WPL) 2026 sea­son dawns, all eyes are on UP War­riorz’s mar­quee sign­ing, West In­dies pow­er­house De­an­dra Dot­tin.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – In a sig­nif­i­cant show of sup­port for Ja­maica’s ath­let­ic com­mu­ni­ty, World Ath­let­ics pres­i­dent Lord Se­bas­t­ian Coe an­nounced a US$100,000 (ap­prox­i­mate­ly J$16 mil­lion) do­na­tion to aid lo­cal track and field mem­bers im­pact­ed by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

The T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion has an­nounced a resur­gence and strate­gic path to the 2028 Olympic Games in Los An­ge­les, Unit­ed States. It in­cludes the stag­ing of the Na­tion­al Box­ing Cham­pi­onships from Jan­u­ary 28 to Feb­ru­ary 1, 2026.

Turkey in­ter­na­tion­al and for­mer T&T mid­dle-block­er Sinead Jack-Kisal was the top scor­er for Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it in their stun­ning five-set win over Italy’s Nu­mia Vero Vol­ley Mi­lano on their re­turn to the CEV Zeren Women’s Cham­pi­ons League Vol­ley, Wednes­day.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – In a ma­jor boost for the West In­dies’ T20 World Cup am­bi­tions, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has con­firmed that star fast bowlers Shamar Joseph and Alzarri Joseph are on track to be ful­ly fit for the tour­na­ment in In­dia and Sri Lan­ka.

T&T’s Un­der-17 foot­ballers are set to face Pe­ru in two in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match­es ahead of the Con­ca­caf World Cup Qual­i­fiers, which be­gin on Feb­ru­ary 3.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons De­fence Force have the chance to be ex­act­ly where they be­lieve they ought to be, at the top of the 12-team T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League stand­ings. They face Cale­do­nia AIA in a Tier 1 fea­ture match Wednes­day night at the Ken Cooke Recre­ation Ground, Po­lice Bar­racks, St James, start­ing at 8 pm.

All roads lead to the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua this Sat­ur­day, as the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League opens for its 2026 cam­paign at 3 pm.

For­mer West In­dies all-rounder Dwayne Bra­vo has re­vealed that it was not his choice to re­tire from Test crick­et al­most 11 years ago.