Sprint­er Kadeem Chi­napoo, last year's Carif­ta Games boys un­der-17 100m sil­ver medal­list, re­ceived a rough ini­ti­a­tion in­to the un­der-20 cat­e­go­ry when he com­mit­ted a false start in the boys un­der-20 100m se­mi-fi­nals dur­ing the morn­ing ses­sion on Day 1 of the 2025 Carif­ta Games pro­gramme at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

T&T’s Josi­ah Hills end­ed the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC)-Trinidad In­ter­na­tion­al Ju­nior (Un­der-14) Ten­nis Tour­na­ment on a high when he com­bined with El Sal­vador’s Ma­teo Gutier­rez to cap­ture the Boys Dou­bles ti­tle on Thursday (April 17).

USA-based T&T swim­mers Liam Car­ring­ton and Zuri Fer­gu­son are both tar­get­ing a suc­cess­ful T&T cam­paign on home soil when the 38th Carif­ta Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Aquat­ics Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) be­gins at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, from Sat­ur­day to Tues­day (April 19-22).

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – T&T bounced back from its open­ing six-wick­et loss against Guyana to beat the Wind­ward Is­lands in the sec­ond round of the Ris­ing Stars Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onship at Lib­er­ta Sports Club, on Thursday (April 17).

LA­HORE, Pak­istan – West In­dies women’s coach Shane Deitz was full of praise for his team’s re­silience, fol­low­ing their hard-fought three-wick­et win over Bangladesh in their ICC World Cup qual­i­fi­er in La­hore on Thurs­day.

LA­HORE – Caribbean crick­et fans are breath­ing a bit eas­i­er on Thurs­day as their beloved West In­dies Women kept their faint 2025 ICC Women’s Crick­et World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion hopes alive fol­low­ing a hard-fought three-wick­et vic­to­ry over Bangladesh in La­hore, Pak­istan.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced a Men’s “A” Team se­ries, with West In­dies “A” host­ing South Africa “A” from May 21 to June 11, 2025 at the Daren Sam­my Crick­et Ground in Saint Lu­cia.

Robert Far­ri­er, for­mer pres­i­dent of T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) and man­ag­er/coach of the na­tion­al team for this year's East­er Grand Prix wants the mem­bers of his cy­cling team to seize the op­por­tu­ni­ties at hand.

RAWALPIN­DI – West In­dies all-rounder Ja­son Hold­er pro­duced his sec­ond Play­er-of-the-Match per­for­mance in three games to lead Is­lam­abad Unit­ed to a com­fort­able 47-run vic­to­ry over the win­less Mul­tan Sul­tans in the Pak­istan Su­per League (PSL) on Wednes­day.

Bar­ba­dos’ trio of In­ter­na­tion­al Mas­ter Or­lan­do Hus­bands, Women’s Can­di­date Mas­ter Chanon Reifer-Belle and Women’s Fide Mas­ter Han­nah Wil­son oc­cu­py the top spots af­ter sev­en rounds in the Sub­zone 2.3.3 Open and Women’s Chess Cham­pi­onships 2025 be­ing played at the Cas­ca­dia Ho­tel in St Ann's, Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day.

Paul Newal­lo, one of five as­sis­tant coach­es to head coach Anil Roberts, says he is look­ing for­ward to some out­stand­ing swim­ming per­for­mances from the lo­cal swim­mers when the 38th Carif­ta Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Aquat­ics Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) splash­es off at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, from Sat­ur­day to Tues­day (April 19-22).

Well, look at that! It’s be­com­ing less of a habit (much like run­ning the Sa­van­nah re­mains a myth­i­cal land for me), and more of a de­light­ful week­ly rit­u­al where Team T&T con­tin­ues to con­quer all com­ers; a rit­u­al that is stub­born­ly and thank­ful­ly re­fus­ing to break. It seems Team T&T are be­com­ing syn­ony­mous with ‘cham­pi­ons,’ and long may this sweet ad­dic­tion con­tin­ue!