BEN­GALU­RU, In­dia – In a con­cern­ing de­vel­op­ment ahead of the T20 World Cup, West In­dies’ bat­ting pow­er­house Shim­ron Het­my­er finds him­self strand­ed in South Africa, un­able to join his team­mates in In­dia due to un­re­solved visa is­sues.

Adasa Richard­son kept the T&T chances of a CON­CA­CAF Un­der-17 World Cup qual­i­fy­ing berth alive when he scored the lone goal in an en­ter­tain­ing 1-0 win over Saint Mar­tin in Thurs­day night’s Group A en­counter be­fore an ap­pre­cia­tive crowd at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo.

BEN­GALU­RU, In­dia– An­oth­er dom­i­nant dis­play with first, bat, then ball, saw Afghanistan se­cure a com­pre­hen­sive 23-run vic­to­ry over the West In­dies in their ICC Men’s T20 World Cup warm-up fix­ture in In­dia at the BC­CI Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence on Wednes­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica -With just two days un­til the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the 2026 Win­ter Olympics, the icy chutes of the bob­sleigh track are set to re­ceive an un­prece­dent­ed wave of Caribbean heat.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – While ad­mit­ting that he was dis­ap­point­ed not to have made it fur­ther in the on­go­ing ICC Men’s Un­der-19 World Cup in Africa, West In­dies head coach Ro­han Nurse said he is gen­er­al­ly sat­is­fied with the team’s over­all per­for­mance.

De Orig­i­nal Game Shot (DOGS) bounced back from their match day one de­feat to trounce new­ly pro­mot­ed Triple Vi­sion 9-1, in A di­vi­sion ac­tion of the Na­tion­al Mixed For­mat League of Darts at Kos­mos Club, Port-of-Spain on Tues­day (Jan­u­ary 27).

The T&T Con­sti­tu­tion (Amend­ment) Bill 2025, known as the “Grand­par­ents Cit­i­zen­ship Law,” was passed by the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Sep­tem­ber 12, 2025. It was sub­se­quent­ly passed by the Sen­ate on Sep­tem­ber 18, 2025, en­abling for­eign-born in­di­vid­u­als with a grand­par­ent who is or was a cit­i­zen, to ac­quire cit­i­zen­ship. We were in­formed that the Act was as­sent­ed to by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo in No­vem­ber 2025.

Grad­u­ates were the cen­ter of at­ten­tion as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs (MSYA), host­ed a cer­tifi­cate dis­tri­b­u­tion cer­e­mo­ny on Sat­ur­day (Jan­u­ary 31).

LEICES­TER CITY, Eng­land – Leices­ter City have pulled off a dra­mat­ic dead­line-day coup, agree­ing a deal to sign Chelsea for­ward Du­juan Richards for the re­main­der of the 2025-26 sea­son.

Trinida­di­an-born NFL Su­per Bowl cham­pi­on Ver­ron Haynes is plan­ning to host a camp in his home­land of Trinidad and To­ba­go to ex­pose per­sons in the Caribbean to the ba­sics of the sport.

KANSAS, Unit­ed States – Trinidad and To­ba­go long jumper, Tyra Git­tens-Spotsville pro­duced a record-break­ing leap on her way to cap­tur­ing gold at the K-State De­loss Dodds In­vi­ta­tion­al event over the week­end.

T&T’s Un­der-17 men’s foot­ballers will be­gin their cam­paign for World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion against Bar­ba­dos Tues­day night (Feb­ru­ary 3) from 7 pm at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.