ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies fast bowler Jay­den Seales will no longer be turn­ing out for Hamp­shire in the Coun­ty Cham­pi­onship hav­ing been de­nied a No Ob­jec­tion Cer­tifi­cate by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Dis­card­ed for­mer West In­dies Test cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite will once again lead a Bar­ba­dos Pride squad miss­ing sev­er­al of its star play­ers in next month’s re­gion­al four-day cham­pi­onships in Ja­maica.

Every­one is to blame for the match-fix­ing scan­dal which has rocked T&T foot­ball over the past two weeks.

Hu­man Re­sources (HR) is crit­i­cal in every as­pect of the work­ing life of an or­gan­i­sa­tion, whether in sports or not.

The hard­wood is set to siz­zle at the South­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sport Are­na as the T&T School’s Bas­ket­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTS­BA) Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships of­fi­cial­ly tip off Wednes­day in Pleas­antville, San Fer­nan­do.

​Hav­ing last played First Class crick­et in 2017 against the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, ag­gres­sive left-hand­ed bats­man Evin Lewis has once again made him­self avail­able to the T&T Red Force for the up­com­ing 2026 sea­son.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Pres­i­dent of the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA), Calvin Hope, has strong­ly crit­i­cised Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for its de­ci­sion not to hold any first-class or in­ter­na­tion­al match­es at Kens­ing­ton Oval in 2026.

Na­tion­al net­baller Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph con­tin­ued her dom­i­nance of op­pos­ing de­fend­ers as she scored 43 goals to lead three-time cham­pi­ons Lough­bor­ough Light­ning to a hard-fought 66-58 win over Lon­don Mav­er­icks for their fourth straight vic­to­ry in the Eng­land Net­ball Su­per League (NSL) on Sun­day.

Al­le­ga­tions of match-fix­ing in lo­cal foot­ball for the past few years are fi­nal­ly un­der the FI­FA radar.

Ask your­self what mean­ing­ful–not per­for­ma­tive–ac­tion or ac­tions have Eu­ro­pean-dom­i­nat­ed in­ter­na­tion­al sport fed­er­a­tions tak­en to ad­dress their his­to­ry as ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the Transat­lantic slave trade. For years, I have called on Com­mon­wealth Sports to es­tab­lish a repa­ra­tions fund.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – In a per­for­mance that sig­nalled a chang­ing of the guard, young open­er Geor­gia Voll an­nounced her­self as the next star of Aus­tralian crick­et, plun­der­ing a maid­en T20I cen­tu­ry to lead her side to a 3-0 se­ries white­wash over the West In­dies here on Mon­day.

Just as the fight for the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier I ti­tle be­tween ti­tle-hold­ers T&T De­fence Force Elite and ri­vals Club San­do FC will go down to the fi­nal match day next week, the bat­tle for the all-im­por­tant third spot be­tween Prison Ser­vice FC and Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice Ser­vice will al­so be de­cid­ed on the fi­nal match day.