GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Re­spect­ed vet­er­an crick­et com­men­ta­tor Dr Joseph ‘Reds’ Per­reira be­lieves it is time for Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) to re­place West In­dies’ bat­ting coach Floyd Reifer af­ter a string of woe­ful per­for­mances by the team’s bats­men.

Open­er Kyle Ram­doo’s 101 was not enough to avoid de­feat on Tues­day, as the Red Force Tri­al Team B de­feat­ed Team A by one run at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre, Bal­main, Cou­va on Tues­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons will have a new cap­tain at the helm when they be­gin their quest for glo­ry in next month’s CG Unit­ed Su­per50 Cup.

The man­ag­er of the Ja­maica se­nior women’s foot­ball team, Chrys­tal Wal­ters, says while her play­ers are hap­py with the 4-1 vic­to­ry over Trinidad and To­ba­go in a friend­ly at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, on Tues­day, the squad is shak­en by the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa in their home­land, Ja­maica. “It was bit­ter­sweet for us last night (Tues­day) with that win. The fo­cus (now) is most­ly on how our broth­ers and sis­ters back home are cop­ing with the dev­as­ta­tion there. It is in­deed im­pact­ful for us. It is af­fect­ing us.” Wal­ters, speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Wright­son Road, Port of Spain, yes­ter­day, added, “It is heart­break­ing for us as a del­e­ga­tion whose sole pur­pose is to come and rep­re­sent the coun­try. But in a time like this, per­sons are look­ing on the out­side and see­ing a hap­py re­ac­tion; that is how we keep to­geth­er in the midst of a heart­break­ing sit­u­a­tion where the ladies are cop­ing and try­ing to fig­ure out where to go next. How do we as­sist as a team?”

The in­au­gur­al RBC Roy­al Slam Col­lege’s Bas­ket­ball Tour­na­ment group stage con­clud­ed this past week­end (Oc­to­ber 25-26) with thrilling ac­tion, dra­mat­ic vic­to­ries, and dom­i­nant in­di­vid­ual per­for­mances, set­ting the stage for an ex­plo­sive semi­fi­nal round.

The Ja­maican se­nior women’s na­tion­al team has been forced in­to a sig­nif­i­cant squad reshuf­fle just days be­fore their in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly against Trinidad and To­ba­go, with four play­ers ruled out due to in­jury.

Mya Ray­mond is tak­ing her Caribbean bas­ket­ball suc­cess glob­al, head­ing to Cana­da on a schol­ar­ship to ad­vance her promis­ing ca­reer.

Two teams – T&T and Ja­maica, with sim­i­lar yet dif­fer­ent ob­jec­tives – will clash Tues­day (Oc­to­ber 28)in an in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va, from 8 pm.

​Safe­guard­ing in sport can be detri­men­tal and dan­ger­ous if its ac­tions are nar­row­ly de­fined or con­fined, par­tic­u­lar­ly con­cern­ing women and girls. True safe­guard­ing must ur­gent­ly ad­dress the spe­cif­ic is­sues that con­tin­ue to make sport un­safe for their men­tal, phys­i­cal, and emo­tion­al health.

CHAT­TOGRAM, Bangladesh – A blis­ter­ing, un­bro­ken 83-run part­ner­ship be­tween cap­tain Shai Hope and Rov­man Pow­ell, along with a de­cent bowl­ing per­for­mance, helped to pow­er the West In­dies to a 16-run vic­to­ry over Bangladesh in a pul­sat­ing first T20I in Bangladesh on Mon­day.

GUWA­HATI, In­dia – The um­pires for the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed semi­fi­nals of the ICC Women’s Crick­et World Cup 2025 have been con­firmed, plac­ing sev­er­al of the game’s top of­fi­cials in the spot­light for the tour­na­ment’s biggest match­es yet.

A com­bined ef­fort from Sim­ba Ed­wards, Justin Mitchell, and Lemuel Matthews helped Point Fortin Vet­er­ans Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my (PFVB­BA) se­cure the Men’s Un­der-23 Di­vi­sion ti­tle in the South Zone Bas­ket­ball League.