The Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs (MSYA) and the Sports Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SporTT) have re­spond­ed to a sto­ry pub­lished in the T&T Guardian on Au­gust 15, 2026, head­lined “Sports Min­istry res­cues SS­FL sea­son; To­ba­go teams in­clud­ed,” as well as this news­pa­per’s on­line re­port, “Sports Min­is­ter an­nounces fi­nan­cial sup­port, but SporTT board yet to ap­prove.”

GROS ISLET – Sher­fane Ruther­ford’s Play­er-of-the-Match per­for­mance helped the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents out mus­cle the St Lu­cia Kings by nine runs in their rain-af­fect­ed con­test in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League in Saint Lu­cia on Sun­day.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – All-rounders Justin Greaves and Hay­ley Matthews have achieved a rare feat by cap­tur­ing the ICC’s Play­er of the Month awards for Ju­ly.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has named 22 fe­male Un­der-19 play­ers to take part in a High-Per­for­mance camp ahead of next year’s ICC Un­der-19 Women’s T20 World Cup.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – For­mer West In­dies all-rounder Dwayne Bra­vo and re­spect­ed crick­et com­men­ta­tor Ian Bish­op will be the first two peo­ple in­duct­ed in­to the new­ly es­tab­lished Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) Hall of Fame.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (AB­FA) Ick­ford Roberts has re­vealed that the as­so­ci­a­tion is still back­ing em­bat­tled FI­FA pres­i­dent Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no be­cause of his fo­cus on as­sist­ing small­er foot­ball na­tions like those in the Caribbean.

Treach­er­ous sea con­di­tions amid a yel­low-lev­el alert elim­i­nat­ed a num­ber of top con­tenders, but could not cool Heat­wave in the an­nu­al Great Race on Sat­ur­day (Au­gust 15) morn­ing. Hours be­fore 30 power­boats left Ch­aguara­mas around 7 am, the race was still up in the air with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Power­boat As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) con­tem­plat­ing post­pon­ing the race due to the con­di­tions.

KINGSTON – Kirk McKen­zie’s scin­til­lat­ing half-cen­tu­ry, cou­pled with some im­pres­sive pow­er hit­ting by Rov­man Pow­ell and An­dre Rus­sell, guid­ed the Ja­maica Kings­men to their maid­en vic­to­ry in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League, a five-wick­et win over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers in Ja­maica on Sat­ur­day.

KINGSTON – One of Ja­maica’s great­est-ever ath­let­ic coach­es, Stephen "Fran­no" Fran­cis, was laid to rest on Sat­ur­day (Au­gust 15) in an emo­tion­al ser­vice at the Na­tion­al In­door Sports Cen­tre.

Jeda­iah King stepped up with a team-high 23 points, close­ly sup­port­ed by Ja­son Best’s vi­tal 20-point con­tri­bu­tion, as Roy­al­ty Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my de­feat­ed de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Mal­oney Pac­ers 86-77 in the Men’s First Di­vi­sion dur­ing the Lin­coln “Crip­ple” Grif­fith North Zone Bas­ket­ball League.

There was a time when prepar­ing a na­tion­al team meant get­ting the play­ers to­geth­er, mak­ing sure the uni­forms were packed, sort­ing out the trav­el, and then fo­cus­ing al­most en­tire­ly on what was go­ing to hap­pen once the whis­tle blew.

Too of­ten, coach­ing and man­age­ment teams de­fine a suc­cess­ful in­jury re­cov­ery sole­ly by an ath­lete’s abil­i­ty to re­turn to phys­i­cal train­ing. This nar­row fo­cus over­looks a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion: men­tal readi­ness. The in­ter­sec­tion of psy­cho­log­i­cal and phys­i­cal in­jury is one of the most ne­glect­ed ar­eas in sports med­i­cine, where emo­tion­al, cog­ni­tive and be­hav­iour­al bar­ri­ers are rarely weighed as heav­i­ly as strength tests, range of mo­tion scores, or con­di­tion­ing bench­marks. Yet, men­tal readi­ness is a de­ci­sive de­ter­mi­nant of ath­let­ic suc­cess, es­pe­cial­ly in high-stakes com­pe­ti­tion against elite op­po­nents.