USA-based Liam Car­ring­ton , Zachary An­tho­ny, Cather­ine Di­ef­fen­thaller and Ethan McMil­lan-Cole all won gold for T&T when the fi­nal night of fi­nals got un­der­way at the 38th edi­tion of the Carif­ta Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Tues­day night.

For al­most a decade the coun­tries of the Caribbean have had to re­ly on the Ja­maican-owned Sports­max Sta­tion for its cov­er­age of lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al sports. While its cov­er­age of in­ter­na­tion­al sport, where­by it mere­ly re-broad­casts events be­ing cov­ered by our tele­vi­sion sta­tions, is a wel­come re­lief to the Caribbean com­mu­ni­ty, broad­casts for which it is sole­ly re­spon­si­ble have be­come the bane of our sport­ing ex­is­tence.

The host­ing of next year’s Carif­ta Games is up in lim­bo af­ter the 2026 host Guyana with­drew, leav­ing the Games, dubbed the most im­por­tant ju­nior ath­let­ic Games in the world by Lord Sabastien Coe, pres­i­dent of World Ath­let­ics, the gov­ern­ing body for track and field, dur­ing his ad­dress to ath­letes at the open­ing of the 52nd Games at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Port-of-Spain on Fri­day.

USA-based Liam Car­ring­ton led the 15-17 boys’ 800m freestyle re­lay quar­tet to the gold medal in a new games record time to end the third night of fi­nals at the 38th edi­tion of the Carif­ta Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) slashed at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Mon­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go closed out the third and fi­nal day of the 52nd Carif­ta Games with two gold medals from 800 me­tres run­ner Brion Scott and hep­tathlon ath­lete Tenique Vin­cent at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo on Mon­day night.

T&T’s Liam Car­ring­ton made it three record gold medal swims from as many fi­nals at the 38th edi­tion of the Carif­ta Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) when he shat­tered coun­try­man Dy­lan Carter’s 12-year-old 15-17 boys’ 200m freestyle record.

The West In­dies Women [WIW] failed to qual­i­fy for the 13th edi­tion of the ICC Women’s World Cup in In­dia, Sep­tem­ber 29 - Oc­to­ber 26, 2025, by the nar­row­est of net run rates [NRR], .01.

Na­tion­al cy­clist Kwe­si Browne made a tri­umphant re­turn to track cy­cling when he won the Men’s Elite keirin on the sec­ond day of the UCI Class II East­er In­ter­na­tion­al Grand Prix Cy­cling at the Ari­ma Velo­drome on Sat­ur­day night.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s team pro­duced 10 medals on Day 2 of the 2025 CARIF­TA Games with a pow­er­ful show­ing with three gold, two sil­ver, and five bronze medals at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo on Sun­day night.

Still smart­ing from their de­feats in the girls' un­der-20 100m fi­nals on Sat­ur­day, twin sis­ters Sole and San­na Fred­er­ick stormed in­to the fi­nal of the half-lap event when the 2025 Carif­ta Games con­tin­ued on Sun­day morn­ing at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo.

Last week, Trinidad and To­ba­go—and the wider foot­balling world—lost a gi­ant. Leo Been­hakker, the leg­endary Dutch coach who led our So­ca War­riors to the 2006 FI­FA World Cup, passed away at the age of 82. For many, he was the man who changed the course of our foot­balling his­to­ry. For me, he was a fig­ure who left a last­ing im­pres­sion—pro­fes­sion­al­ly and per­son­al­ly.

USA-based trio Cather­ine Di­ef­fen­thaller, Zuri Fer­gu­son and Liam Car­ring­ton all won gold on the open­ing night of fi­nals at the 38th edi­tion of the Carif­ta Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) at the beau­ti­ful Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Sat­ur­day night.