ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – While ad­mit­ting that he was dis­ap­point­ed not to have made it fur­ther in the on­go­ing ICC Men’s Un­der-19 World Cup in Africa, West In­dies head coach Ro­han Nurse said he is gen­er­al­ly sat­is­fied with the team’s over­all per­for­mance.

The T&T Con­sti­tu­tion (Amend­ment) Bill 2025, known as the “Grand­par­ents Cit­i­zen­ship Law,” was passed by the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Sep­tem­ber 12, 2025. It was sub­se­quent­ly passed by the Sen­ate on Sep­tem­ber 18, 2025, en­abling for­eign-born in­di­vid­u­als with a grand­par­ent who is or was a cit­i­zen, to ac­quire cit­i­zen­ship. We were in­formed that the Act was as­sent­ed to by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo in No­vem­ber 2025.

Trinida­di­an-born NFL Su­per Bowl cham­pi­on Ver­ron Haynes is plan­ning to host a camp in his home­land of Trinidad and To­ba­go to ex­pose per­sons in the Caribbean to the ba­sics of the sport.

Nat­taly Lin­do de­liv­ered a stand­out per­for­mance for T&T at the Mill­rose Games, se­cur­ing a pres­ti­gious sec­ond-place fin­ish in the women’s weight throw. The event, held over the week­end (Jan­u­ary 30 - Feb­ru­ary 1) at the Ar­mory Track & Field Cen­tre in New York, saw T&T ath­letes ex­cel on the World Ath­let­ics In­door Tour Gold stage.

HARARE, Zim­bab­we– The Emi­rates In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) In­ter­na­tion­al Pan­el of Um­pires and Ref­er­ees has an­nounced the of­fi­cials for the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed se­mi-fi­nals of the ICC Un­der-19 Men’s Crick­et World Cup 2026, with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Za­hid Bas­sarath earn­ing a promi­nent as­sign­ment.

De­spite a dou­ble strike by Robert Primus of AC Port-of-Spain that threat­ened to take the spot­light in Sun­day’s (Feb­ru­ary 1) T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la, Club San­do FC pre­vailed in the end 3-2, which car­ried a re­sult of more sig­nif­i­cance, that of Club San­do main­tain­ing sec­ond on the 12-team stand­ings in Tier 1.

The top­ic of “wast­ed time and en­er­gy” re­cent­ly popped up in my mind, specif­i­cal­ly re­gard­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, rather than the Caribbean as a whole.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – With an eye on his­to­ry and a nod to leg­endary tri­umphs, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has launched the of­fi­cial ma­roon kit the re­gion­al side will wear at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026.

In a move that is re­shap­ing the re­gion­al sports land­scape, 18 young Trinida­di­ans have suc­cess­ful­ly trad­ed their text­books for head­sets and cam­eras, en­ter­ing the pro­fes­sion­al me­dia in­dus­try through a high-im­pact part­ner­ship be­tween KFC T&T and Rodeo Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

T&T’s Zuri Fer­gu­son won gold for the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da ‘Gators’ in the women’s 200-yard back­stroke in their dual meet bat­tle with Flori­da State Uni­ver­si­ty, which they won 186-110 at the Flori­da Aquat­ic Swim­ming & Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty in Ocala, Gainesville, Flori­da, USA on Fri­day (Jan­u­ary 30).

Yes, we knew he was not in good health, but the news of Aza­ad's death, com­mu­ni­cat­ed to me by Lasana this morn­ing, was still un­ex­pect­ed and cer­tain­ly shock­ing. I have known Aza­ad Mo­hammed-Khan since our days at St Mary's Col­lege more than fifty years ago.

AS­JA Girls Col­lege (San Fer­nan­do) se­cured the au­to­mat­ic semi­fi­nal spot in the Girls Open Di­vi­sion of the T&T Sec­ondary Schools Vol­ley­ball League (SSVL) when they won Group A of their round-robin se­ries at the South­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Pleas­antville on Fri­day (Jan­u­ary 30).