“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 – 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.

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.

ST JOHN’S – West In­dies cap­tain Ros­ton Chase has de­clared his side is dri­ven by a sin­gu­lar fo­cus head­ing in­to the sec­ond Test against Sri Lan­ka at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in An­tigua.

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.

Akeela Williams con­nect­ed on 11 goals from 17 at­tempts to help Barataria Po­lice Youth Club (PYC) claim the Ki­wi Di­vi­sion ti­tle in the Lystar Lewis Port-of-Spain Net­ball League (LL­POSNL) on Sat­ur­day.

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.

I read it over and over. I felt an­gry. I felt a sense of be­tray­al. I felt that Caribbean crick­et had been be­trayed and sold out.

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.

ILLI­NOIS, USA – The Chica­go Bulls have se­cured a ma­jor back­court up­grade, agree­ing to terms with vet­er­an shoot­ing guard and Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al Nor­man Pow­ell on a two-year, US$45 mil­lion con­tract, league sources con­firmed yes­ter­day.

In my younger days, when some­one achieved a mon­u­men­tal mile­stone, the phrase of choice was al­ways, "Give Jack his jack­et." Nowa­days, I am told the younger gen­er­a­tion prefers to “give them their flow­ers.” Well, go ahead and emp­ty the en­tire flower shop.

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.