Ac­cord­ing to the Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal As­so­ci­a­tion’s (APA) Di­ag­nos­tic and Sta­tis­ti­cal Man­u­al of Men­tal Dis­or­ders 5th Ed. (DSM-5), a men­tal dis­or­der is a syn­drome char­ac­terised by a clin­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant dis­tur­bance in an in­di­vid­ual’s cog­ni­tion, emo­tion­al reg­u­la­tion, or be­hav­iour that re­flects a dys­func­tion in the psy­cho­log­i­cal, bi­o­log­i­cal, or de­vel­op­men­tal process­es un­der­ly­ing men­tal func­tion­ing.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – As­ton Vil­la winger Leon Bai­ley’s high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed re­turn to the Reg­gae Boyz line­up has been de­layed due to an in­jury set­back.

T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League club, De­fence Force have part­ed ways with coach Lloyd “Sonoltee” An­drews and his as­sis­tant coach­es, for­mer na­tion­al mid­field­er Hut­son 'Bar­ber' Charles and Devin El­cock, with the lat­ter serv­ing as team ad­min­is­tra­tor, ahead of the 2024/2045 do­mes­tic sea­son.

DUBAI – West In­dies Women’s skip­per Hay­ley Matthews says the team has as­sessed its mis­takes in the open­ing loss to South Africa and will look to im­prove on those ar­eas when then take on Scot­land Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 6) in their sec­ond match of the Women’s ICC T20 World Cup in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates.

PROV­I­DENCE – A Play­er-of-the-Match per­for­mance by Moeen Ali dou­bled by a Shai Hope half-cen­tu­ry sent the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in­to their sec­ond suc­ces­sive Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fi­nal af­ter they trounced the Bar­ba­dos Roy­als by eight wick­ets in Qual­i­fi­er 2 in Guyana on Fri­day.

This week, T&T’s se­nior men’s foot­ball team em­barks on a cru­cial jour­ney to San­ti­a­go, Cu­ba, for a com­pet­i­tive Con­ca­caf Na­tions League match.

De­fence Force Past Play­ers (Over-40), and Ju­ven­tus of St John's (Over-50) will put their ti­tles on the line when the To­ba­go Mas­ters Foot­ball Tour­na­ment (TMFT) – the Caribbean’s most loved 'Mas­ters Foot­ball Fes­ti­val' com­mem­o­rates its tenth an­niver­sary Thurs­day (Oc­to­ber 10) un­til Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 13) at Shaw Park Sports Com­plex, Shaw Park and Cour­land Recre­ation­al Ground in Black Rock.

Bene­dict Bar­rett scored a hat-trick to lead Harts to a com­mand­ing 6-1 win over Bertie's when the Queen’s Park Crick­et Club’s (QPCC) Carib/Ford Trinidad-spon­sored 8-A-Side Foot­ball Tour­na­ment con­tin­ued at the Queen’s Park Oval, Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night (Oc­to­ber 4).

As ex­pect­ed T&T So­ca War­riors in­ter­im coach Derek King named Kevin Moli­no and Jo­evin Jones, both for­mer cap­tains of the So­ca War­riors in his 23-man squad for this coun­try’s fi­nal two match­es in Group B of the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League against Cu­ba.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua Un­der­strength West In­dies T20I and One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) squads were on Fri­day an­nounced by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for their tour of Sri Lan­ka lat­er this month.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews be­lieves the Caribbean side failed to prop­er­ly adapt to the con­di­tions in Dubai dur­ing their 10-wick­et loss to South Africa in their open­ing match of the Women’s T20 World Cup on Fri­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – For the first time in its his­to­ry, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has award­ed mul­ti-year con­tracts to sev­er­al of its top men’s and women’s play­ers for the next two years.