ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trinidad and To­ba­go Women are the new­ly crowned cham­pi­ons of the CWI Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship af­ter de­feat­ing de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos Women by six wick­ets in an ex­cit­ing fi­nal, Sat­ur­day (Au­gust 15).

KINGSTON, Ja­maica — Chica­go Bulls shoot­ing guard Nor­man Pow­ell strong­ly be­lieves that a FI­BA el­i­gi­bil­i­ty rule is pre­vent­ing oth­er top tal­ent­ed bas­ket­ballers from rep­re­sent­ing Ja­maica on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage.

KINGSTON – Ja­maica Kings­men cap­tain Rov­man Pow­ell is tar­get­ing their up­com­ing match against the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers to fi­nal­ly get on the points ta­ble in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL).

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s women’s un­der-19 crick­et team se­cured a state­ment win over Bar­ba­dos in their fi­nal round-robin match of the Crick­et West In­dies Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground in An­tigua on Fri­day.

GROS ISLET – The Saint Lu­cia Kings clinched their sec­ond vic­to­ry of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League sea­son in dra­mat­ic fash­ion, over­com­ing both the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons and treach­er­ous weath­er con­di­tions to win by three wick­ets with just two balls to spare in St Lu­cia on Fri­day.

The Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Pre­mier Di­vi­sion will be con­test­ed via the reg­u­lar 17-team one-round league for­mat for the up­com­ing 2026 sea­son af­ter be­ing bailed out by the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs to the sum of $406,700.

“Oh what a tan­gled web we weave, when first we prac­tice to de­ceive..” (from the 1808 po­em “Marmion: A tale of Flod­den Field” by Sir Wal­ter Scott)

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors ex­tend­ed the Ja­maica Kings­men’s night­mare start to the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) by thump­ing them by six wick­ets to pick up a win in their open­ing match on Thurs­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go will face Bar­ba­dos at Coolidge, An­tigua on Fri­day in the fi­nal round of the West In­dies Ris­ing Stars Women’s Un­der-19 tour­na­ment, with both sides al­ready guar­an­teed places in Sat­ur­day’s fi­nal. To­day’s en­counter will there­fore serve as a dress re­hearsal, giv­ing both teams an op­por­tu­ni­ty to as­sess what the oth­er brings ahead of the ti­tle de­cider.

Af­ter putting Sri Lan­ka to the sword, the West In­dies en­tered their two-Test se­ries against Pak­istan with the qui­et swag­ger of a team ready to re­build re­gion­al pride. Cap­tain Ros­ton Chase had bold­ly an­nounced his in­ten­tion to turn home grounds across the Caribbean in­to im­pen­e­tra­ble fortress­es, where vis­it­ing teams come to suf­fer.

ST JOHN’S – Ta­ble lead­ers Trinidad and To­ba­go and sec­ond-placed Bar­ba­dos have set up a mouth­wa­ter­ing clash in the fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary round of the Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship af­ter win­ning their re­spec­tive match­es in An­tigua on Wednes­day.

Merere Gon­za­les, pres­i­dent of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL), says there is still the pos­si­bil­i­ty of To­ba­go schools, Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary and Spey­side Sec­ondary, be­ing part of the 17-team Pre­mier Di­vi­sion for the up­com­ing sea­son.