The halls of Sa­cred Hearts Girls’ Ro­man Catholic (RC) School were awash in red, white and black Fri­day as stu­dents proud­ly cel­e­brat­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s rich foot­ball her­itage with a spe­cial Red Day ob­ser­vance mark­ing the 20th an­niver­sary of the So­ca War­riors’ his­toric FI­FA World Cup de­but.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Sri Lan­ka built on their im­pres­sive start by pro­duc­ing an­oth­er ster­ling bat­ting dis­play on the sec­ond day to main­tain their grip over the West In­dies in the sec­ond Test at the end of day two on Sat­ur­day.

LON­DON, Eng­land – Ja­maican um­pire Jacque­line Williams and Vrin­da Rathi have been named as the on-field um­pires for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup fi­nal, which will be played at the fa­mous Lord’s Crick­et Ground on Sun­day.

​Trinidad and To­ba­go swim­mer Jaden Mills swam to new per­son­al best (pb) times in both the boys’ 15–17 50-me­tre back­stroke and 100m freestyle events at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed 54th Ba­hamas Na­tion­al Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships, held at the Bet­ty Kel­ly-Ken­ning Aquat­ic Cen­tre in New Prov­i­dence.

“Glob·​al·​i·sa·​tion: the de­vel­op­ment of an in­creas­ing­ly in­te­grat­ed glob­al econ­o­my marked es­pe­cial­ly by free trade, free flow of cap­i­tal, and the tap­ping of cheap­er for­eign labour mar­kets” (Mer­ri­am-Web­ster Dic­tio­nary)

LON­DON, Eng­land – Bar­ba­di­ans Ja­cob Bethell and Jofra Archer are in line to fea­ture for Eng­land in their up­com­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against In­dia.

Fol­low­ing the in­ter­ven­tion of the Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Phillip Watts, the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) has se­cured the fi­nan­cial sup­port en­abling it to field rep­re­sen­ta­tion at the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can, and Caribbean (NACAC) Un­der-18 and U-23 Cham­pi­onships to be held in Tlax­cala, Mex­i­co, from Ju­ly 10-12.

New­ly ap­point­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der-19 cap­tain Bren­dan Boodoo was named the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion One Play­er of the Year when the Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League (SS­CL) held its an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce, Cam­den Road, Cou­va, on Tues­day.

ES­SE­QUI­BO, Guyana – All roads lead to the brand-new An­na Regi­na Sta­di­um Fri­day evening, as crick­et leg­ends and for­mer West In­dies cap­tains Bri­an Lara and Shiv Chan­der­paul gear up for a block­buster T20 clash to of­fi­cial­ly in­au­gu­rate the state-of-the-art fa­cil­i­ty.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Bar­ba­di­an crick­eter Shaqkere Par­ris, a mem­ber of the West In­dies “A” team, has been grant­ed bail af­ter be­ing for­mal­ly charged with bat­tery in con­nec­tion with an al­leged al­ter­ca­tion at a lo­cal ho­tel.

NEW OR­LEANS, USA – The me­te­oric rise of Vir­gin Is­lands sprint sen­sa­tion Adae­jah T Hodge reached new heights this week as the Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia stand­out of­fi­cial­ly signed an NIL (Name, Im­age, and Like­ness) en­dorse­ment deal with glob­al sports­wear gi­ant Nike, Inc.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has tak­en a sig­nif­i­cant step in its trans­for­ma­tion jour­ney, an­nounc­ing a strate­gic ad­vi­so­ry en­gage­ment with Teneo, a pre­mier glob­al ad­vi­so­ry firm with deep roots in the Caribbean and a proven record of shap­ing com­mer­cial suc­cess across in­ter­na­tion­al sport.