For the first time in foot­ball’s his­to­ry, coach­es, ad­min­is­tra­tors, and man­agers can re­ceive qual­i­fi­ca­tions equiv­a­lent to a cer­tifi­cate course, a diplo­ma, a Bach­e­lor of Arts de­gree or a mas­ter’s de­gree in sports, cour­tesy of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Acad­e­my in Lead­er­ship and Man­age­ment Cours­es.

On May 16th, the In­ter­na­tion­al Day of the Boy Child [ID­BC], found­ed by Dr Jerome Teelucks­ingh in 2018, was cel­e­brat­ed. The ID­BC strives to ad­dress the unique chal­lenges boys face and pro­mote gen­der equal­i­ty by recog­nis­ing the im­por­tance of both the boy and girl child.

CAN­TER­BURY, Eng­land – Qiana Joseph blast­ed a bound­ary-stud­ded half cen­tu­ry to pro­pel West In­dies Women to a dom­i­nant 80-run vic­to­ry over an ECB Women’s De­vel­op­ment XI in their open­ing tour match yes­ter­day.

Guardian Me­dia Sports con­tin­ues its se­ries in­to the fi­nan­cial con­cerns and re­la­tion­ships be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB), its fran­chise com­pa­ny Red Force Crick­et T&T Lim­it­ed and the lev­el of fund­ing pumped in­to each oth­er by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and fees paid af­ter this re­porter viewed sev­er­al doc­u­ments and spoke to sev­er­al per­sons.

Over the last four years, be­tween 2021 and 2024, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) re­ceived more than TT$29 mil­lion (US$4.4 mil­lion) in fund­ing from Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for op­er­at­ing, tour and tour­na­ment ex­pens­es. Ac­cord­ing to Crick­et West In­dies’ an­nu­al au­dit state­ments, viewed by Guardian Me­dia, the TTCB’s al­lo­ca­tions from CWI in­creased by 69 per cent be­tween 2022 and 2024.”

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), in a re­lease on Thurs­day evening, ex­pressed its con­do­lences fol­low­ing the trag­ic death of teenaged foot­baller Zwade Al­leyne.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Vet­er­an West In­dies com­men­ta­tor Joseph ‘Reds’ Per­reira be­lieves that the West In­dies Test cap­tain­cy should be giv­en to ei­ther wick­et­keep­er/bats­men Joshua Da Sil­va or Tevin Im­lach.

Dur­ing my re­cent UE­FA com­mu­ni­ca­tions course in Gene­va, I was re­mind­ed of a truth I’ve al­ways known but nev­er quite had the frame­work to ful­ly ar­tic­u­late: in foot­ball, as in life, sto­ries sell more than you can imag­ine. Not just goals and re­sults, but jour­neys. Per­son­al­i­ties. Tri­umphs against the odds. Foot­ball, at its heart, is dra­ma—and the job of com­mu­ni­ca­tors is to tell that sto­ry well.

BRIDGETOWN – Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos, Mia Mot­t­ley has laud­ed Ros­ton Chase for his pro­mo­tion to West In­dies Test cap­tain, de­scrib­ing it as an “ex­tra­or­di­nary mile­stone”.

The 2025 Spe­cial Olympics Na­tion­al Games of­fi­cial­ly kicked off with the Boc­ce com­pe­ti­tion on May 10, set­ting the stage for a month-long dis­play of tal­ent by ath­letes with in­tel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ties.

Head of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), Shaun Fuentes, com­plet­ed the UE­FA Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­pact Course at the UE­FA Head­quar­ters in Ny­on, Switzer­land, re­cent­ly.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has named vet­er­an Bar­ba­di­an all-rounder Ros­ton Chase as their new West In­dies Test cap­tain, while his coun­try­man Jomel War­ri­can will serve as vice-cap­tain.