Jereem ‘The Dream’ Richards and Leah Bertrand were crowned the Se­nior Male and Fe­male Ath­letes of the Year when the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NAAATT) held its an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day evening.

The Ho­n­ourable Min­is­ter of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis, to­geth­er with the Deputy Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Bev­er­ly Reid Samuel and Head of the Sport De­vel­op­ment Unit at SporTT, Justin Lat­apy-George, pre­sent­ed a cheque for TT$6,792,353 to the TTFA Pres­i­dent, Kieron Ed­wards, to sup­port the Men’s Na­tion­al Foot­ball Team 2024 to 2025 (Year 1) jour­ney to qual­i­fy for the 2026 FI­FA World Cup, host­ed across the Amer­i­c­as of Cana­da, Mex­i­co, and the USA. The pre­sen­ta­tion was made on Thurs­day.

A pos­si­ble cri­sis in lo­cal foot­ball has been avert­ed af­ter match of­fi­cials be­gan re­ceiv­ing pay­ments for De­cem­ber 2024 from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion on Thurs­day.

St Bene­dict’s Col­lege will have un­til the close of busi­ness on Fri­day to lodge their ap­peal against the rul­ing by the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee to strip them 12 points and eight goals which the school ac­cu­mu­lat­ed dur­ing its 2024 SS­FL Pre­mier Di­vi­sion cam­paign.

Fresh off of their awards at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) cer­e­mo­ny on Sun­day, sprint­ers Jereem Richards and Leah Bertrand are the lead nom­i­nees for the Sports­man and Woman Award for the First Cit­i­zens Sports Awards. Crick­eter Nicholas Pooran is al­so in the lead to win the il­lus­tri­ous award af­ter his dom­i­nant year in 2024. 

 Help­ing Olympians build bet­ter fi­nan­cial fu­tures is para­mount to me, and do­ing it with vi­sion and pur­pose. It is the en­gine dri­ving my ap­proach to Olympic move­ment lead­er­ship. 

Tech­ni­cal Di­rec­tor of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) An­ton Corneal has joined a se­lect­ed group of tech­ni­cal lead­ers from across the globe fol­low­ing his grad­u­a­tion from the first edi­tion of FI­FA’s Tech­ni­cal Lead­er­ship Diplo­ma pro­gramme re­cent­ly.

Sprint­ers Jereem ‘The Dream’ Richards and Leah Bertrand were named Sports­man and Sports­woman of the year 2024 by the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) dur­ing their 30th An­nu­al Award Cer­e­mo­ny at the Gov­ern­ment Plaza Au­di­to­ri­um, Rich­mond Street, Port-of-Spain on Sun­day.

In a can­did and ex­clu­sive in­ter­view on lo­cal ra­dio sta­tion i95.5FM’s Is­ports pro­gramme with host An­dre Er­rol Bap­tiste on Sat­ur­day, Trinidad and To­ba­go's Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley, Chair­man of the CARI­COM sub­com­mit­tee on crick­et, laid bare the chal­lenges and am­bi­tions sur­round­ing West In­dies crick­et as the re­gion gets ready to wel­come a new year and pos­si­ble new chal­lenges fac­ing the re­gion's beloved sport.

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege was crowned the new cham­pi­on of the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) af­ter a re­port from the League's Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee on Mon­day re­vealed that St Bene­dict's Col­lege had for­feit­ed four match­es that strik­er Der­rel Gar­cia played in while he was un­reg­is­tered. 

As Trinidad and To­ba­go gears up for 2025, it’s time to re­flect on what we can do dif­fer­ent­ly to re­vive the pipeline of sport­ing great­ness in our twin-is­land na­tion. Dwight Yorke, Rus­sell Lat­apy, and count­less oth­er ath­letes who be­came house­hold names didn’t emerge by chance—they were the prod­ucts of vi­brant grass­roots pro­grams, sup­port­ive com­mu­ni­ties, and un­re­lent­ing de­ter­mi­na­tion. These icons were born in places like Canaan in To­ba­go, Care­nage, Point Fortin, and Ari­ma, com­mu­ni­ties that once stood as breed­ing grounds for raw tal­ent.

Over this se­ries of West In­dies crick­et, we have brought you, the read­er, the views of a num­ber of great West In­di­an for­mer play­ers, of­fi­cials, and a cou­ple of per­sons who have de­vot­ed their en­er­gies and the as­pi­ra­tions of their souls to bear on the ques­tion of how our crick­et is to be re­vived. The fo­cus has main­ly been on known tech­ni­cal weak­ness­es, men­tal in­ca­pac­i­ties of the present West In­di­an play­ers, par­tic­u­lar­ly our bats­men, and on the very glar­ing fail­ures of suc­ces­sive ad­min­is­tra­tions to grasp the net­tle of what is need­ed.