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.

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.

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.

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.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has tak­en a sig­nif­i­cant step in its trans­for­ma­tion jour­ney, an­nounc­ing a strate­gic ad­vi­so­ry en­gage­ment with Teneo, a pre­mier glob­al ad­vi­so­ry firm with deep roots in the Caribbean and a proven record of shap­ing com­mer­cial suc­cess across in­ter­na­tion­al sport.

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.

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.

As a proud res­i­dent of Siparia and a for­mer two-time Olympic fi­nal­ist, I feel com­pelled to speak out on an is­sue that af­fects not on­ly our sport­ing com­mu­ni­ty but al­so the fu­ture of our young peo­ple, es­pe­cial­ly those in my com­mu­ni­ty.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI) Board of Di­rec­tors along with its Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment team met over the week­end to dis­cuss strate­gic poli­cies out­lined in CWI’s 2024-2027 Strate­gic Plan ‘The Long Run’.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Ja­maica’s Min­is­ter of Sports Olivia Grange has re­vealed that the track at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um has fi­nal­ly been cer­ti­fied by World Ath­let­ics, near­ly a year af­ter it was resur­faced.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies’ wick­et­keep­er/bats­man Shai Hope has ful­ly re­cov­ered from the in­jury that ruled him out of last week’s open­ing Test match against Sri Lan­ka.

LON­DON, Eng­land – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews has ad­mit­ted that the team’s star play­ers did not per­form to their full po­ten­tial af­ter they were dumped out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup by Aus­tralia Women at the semi­fi­nal stage on Tues­day.