On Tues­day on is­ports, news broke that the promised Olympic Games 2028 de­cider se­ries for the Caribbean will be held in Trinidad and To­ba­go from April 18 to May 11 at two venues, the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba and Queens Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force is con­duct­ing the on­go­ing 2024-2025 Phys­i­cal Train­ing In­struc­tors (PTI) Course in which par­tic­i­pants were en­gaged by Dex­ter Voisin, a World Ath­let­ics Cer­ti­fied Lec­tur­er, dur­ing a ses­sion at the De­fence Force Mil­i­tary Acad­e­my, St. Mede­line, San Fer­nan­do, on Tues­day. Both the De­fence For ce and the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NAAATT), who Voisin is an as­sis­tant gen­er­al sec­re­tary, have been work­ing in col­lab­o­ra­tion with this pro­gramme for sev­er­al years, with the NAAATT pro­vid­ing spe­cial­ized train­ing in track and field coach­ing and tech­ni­cal of­fi­ci­at­ing, while PTI stu­dents vol­un­teer their ser­vices at NAAATT events.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced that fast-bowl­ing all-rounder Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er and un­capped quick Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow have earned call-ups to the 15-mem­ber West In­dies’ squad for the six white-ball fix­tures against Bangladesh at home. 

Hap­py New Year! 2025 is up­on us, and nor­mal­ly, I pre­view some up­com­ing im­por­tant sport­ing dates in the cal­en­dar. But I ask for your in­dul­gence as I need to go back to one of the most scin­til­lat­ing Test se­ries that I have had the plea­sure of wit­ness­ing.

Young tal­ents will gath­er on Sat­ur­day to bat­tle at the Ken­neth Fitz­patrick Memo­r­i­al Ju­nior Chess Tour­na­ment at Cen­te­nary Hall, St Mary’s Col­lege, Pem­broke Street in Port-of-Spain.

IS­LAM­ABAD, Pak­istan –An­dre Co­ley says while the two-match Test se­ries in Pak­istan will be his last as head coach of the West In­dies’ Test team, that is not his main fo­cus.

IS­LAM­ABAD, Pak­istan – West In­dies Test head coach An­dre Co­ley wants to see the re­gion­al team im­prove on their 2024 per­for­mances when they take on Pak­istan in a two-match Test se­ries lat­er this month.

BRIDGETOWN – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Set­tlers slipped to their sec­ond suc­ces­sive de­feat while Pel­i­cans con­tin­ued their play­off push with a thrilling vic­to­ry when the BIM10 crick­et tour­na­ment con­tin­ued in Bar­ba­dos on Mon­day.

ST GEORGE’S, Grena­da – Grena­da’s first Olympic medal­list Ki­rani James was con­ferred with an hon­orary Doc­tor of Laws de­gree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies glob­al cam­pus over the week­end in recog­ni­tion of his ex­cel­lence in ath­let­ics.

BRIS­BANE – Sher­fane Ruther­ford failed to fire and his Syd­ney Thun­der missed an op­por­tu­ni­ty to go top of the ta­ble in the Big Bash League when they went down by five wick­ets to the Bris­bane Heat in Aus­tralia on Mon­day.

The cesspi­ti­sa­tion of so­cial me­dia. “I was lost in the cesspit of so­cial me­dia”, read the head­line of an ar­ti­cle in a promi­nent Eng­lish dai­ly news­pa­per.

For­mer West In­dies cap­tain Sir Clive Lloyd is not hap­py with the sug­ges­tion made by for­mer In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) chair­man Greg Bar­clay that the West In­dies be dis­band­ed and play as in­di­vid­ual coun­tries.