The Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Fu­ture Stars gave a dogged dis­play but had to set­tle for a 5-2 loss against the Ja­maica Un­der-17 team on the open­ing day of the Jew­els of the Caribbean Foot­ball Tour­na­ment at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, Mon­day (De­cem­ber 15).

MAN­CHES­TER, Lon­don – As­ton Vil­la man­ag­er Na­talia Ar­royo has de­scribed Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al and Man­ches­ter City for­ward Khadi­ja "Bun­ny" Shaw as the best strik­er in the Women’s Su­per League (WSL).

LON­DON, Eng­land– Af­ter en­dur­ing a thrash­ing at the hands of Eng­land Ros­es in their just con­clud­ed Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball Se­ries, head coach of Ja­maica’s Sun­shine Girls, Sash­er Gaye Hen­ry-Wright said she is not sat­is­fied with her team’s show­ing, de­spite field­ing an in­ex­pe­ri­enced squad.

Nikoli Black­man se­cured a spot at the Carif­ta Games af­ter com­plet­ing the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) In­vi­ta­tion­al Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, with a vic­to­ry in the boys’ 50-me­tre freestyle on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

BOLTON, Eng­land – Bar­ba­di­an strik­er Thier­ry Gale scored a sen­sa­tion­al win­ner to give Bolton Wan­der­ers a thrilling 2-1 vic­to­ry over Ex­eter City in the EFL League One here at the Toughsheet Com­mu­ni­ty Sta­di­um on Sat­ur­day.

MAN­CHES­TER, Eng­land – Man­ches­ter City for­ward Khadi­ja "Bun­ny" Shaw scored a rare beaver-trick to help her side thump As­ton Vil­la 6-1 and main­tain their lead at the top of the Women’s Su­per League (WSL) in Eng­land Sun­day (De­cem­ber 14).

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go goal­keep­er Sha­ka His­lop is of the view that head coach Dwight Yorke should con­tin­ue in his role de­spite his fail­ure to lead the team to the 2026 FI­FA World Cup.

LON­DON – Eng­land Ros­es wrapped up their Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball Se­ries against Ja­maica’s Sun­shine Girls in em­phat­ic fash­ion by romp­ing to an 81-30 vic­to­ry in the fi­nal match at the Cop­per Box Are­na in Eng­land on Sun­day (De­cem­ber 14).

The West In­dies Women (WIW) played 14 One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs) and nine Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­als (T20I) in 2025 in three bi­lat­er­al se­ries (Bangladesh, Eng­land, South Africa) and the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) World Cup qual­i­fiers.

GEORGE­TOWN – A burst of youth­ful en­er­gy has de­scend­ed up­on Guyana’s shores as the Bar­ba­dos Un­der-13 crick­et team ar­rived on Fri­day, set­ting the stage for a thrilling five-match se­ries against their Guyanese coun­ter­parts.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – A vis­i­bly frus­trat­ed West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my dis­sect­ed an­oth­er dam­ag­ing col­lapse, la­belling his team’s nine-wick­et de­feat to New Zealand in the sec­ond Test as a case of “two steps back­wards.”

There comes a point in life when you re­alise you’re not just los­ing time — you’re los­ing peo­ple.