The an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar that the UNC Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs is Phillip Watts has been re­ceived by those who know him well with en­thu­si­asm and hope.

New­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, the Ho­n­ourable Phillip Watts, was re­ceived with a warm wel­come on his first of­fi­cial day of work at the Min­istry’s Head Of­fice in St Clair, Port of Spain on Mon­day.

Na­tion­al de­fend­er Justin Gar­cia head­ed home the lone goal of the con­test as De­fence Force eked out a 1-0 win over Cen­tral FC to claim the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier I crown at the Ken Cooke Ground, St James Po­lice Bar­racks, Long Cir­cu­lar Road, St James, on Sun­day night.

Mic­ah McKen­zie led with the ball and Jew­el An­drew starred with the bat as the Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der in­flict­ed the first de­feat on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Le­gions in the West In­dies Break­out League on Fri­day night.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent—Trinidad and To­ba­go Women pulled off a ma­jor up­set by de­feat­ing de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica Women by five wick­ets in a close en­counter in the Women’s T20 Blaze on Sat­ur­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go wel­comes Mr Phillip Watts as our new Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs—a role filled with both chal­lenge and op­por­tu­ni­ty. At a time when our ath­letes, coach­es, and com­mu­ni­ties yearn for re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion, the coun­try looks to Mr Watts not just as an ad­min­is­tra­tor but as a vi­sion­ary who un­der­stands the im­mense pow­er of sport to unite, up­lift, and trans­form.

Vox Pop­uli, Vox Dei. The peo­ple have spo­ken, and as the say­ing goes, the voice of the peo­ple is the voice of God. Now, you all know I am not a po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst, and I have no in­ten­tion of try­ing to be­come one. Still, I am a true pa­tri­ot, a son of the soil, Tri­ni to the bone, and hav­ing rep­re­sent­ed the coun­try at crick­et, as far as I am con­cerned, no­body from out­side can “bad mouth” Trinidad & To­ba­go. It’s like fam­i­ly—don’t speak ill of my fam­i­ly. I can do that, but not an out­sider. This in­tro is be­cause I will at­tempt, in my lay­man’s words, to come to terms with what hap­pened on the night of Mon­day, April 28, 2025.

I be­gin to­day’s Things That Mat­ter on a deeply painful per­son­al note: the un­ex­pect­ed death of my beloved younger broth­er Sean Pe­ter Cordell Lewis-Cox at 3.19 am on Sat­ur­day.

Trinidad & To­ba­go Le­gions cap­tain Joshua Da Sil­va smashed a half cen­tu­ry at the top of the or­der to help his side reg­is­ter a com­fort­able 23-run win over Guyana Rain­for­est Rangers and keep their un­beat­en streak alive in the West In­dies Break­out League on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) is hop­ing that the re­de­vel­oped Coolidge Crick­et Ground (CCG) in An­tigua can at­tract long-term, strate­gic in­vest­ment.

T&T’s Teneil Camp­bell rode to her sec­ond bronze medal at the Road Con­ti­nen­tal Pan-Am Cham­pi­onships when she end­ed in third spot in the Road Race at Pun­ta del Este, Mal­don­a­do, Uruguay on Sat­ur­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Le­gions used a bal­anced bowl­ing at­tack to sti­fle the Bar­ba­dos Pel­i­cans and emerge vic­to­ri­ous by 64 runs in their high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed West In­dies Break­out League clash here at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day.