CAS­TRIES, St. Lu­cia – For­mer cham­pi­on St Lu­cia Kings have suf­fered a ma­jor blow, with Afghanistan’s star left-arm wrist­spin­ner Noor Ah­mad ruled out of the 2026 Caribbean Pre­mier League sea­son af­ter the Afghanistan Crick­et Board re­voked his No-Ob­jec­tion Cer­tifi­cate (NOC), the fran­chise con­firmed in an of­fi­cial state­ment on Wednes­day.

A rel­a­tive­ly in­ex­pe­ri­enced Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior women's vol­ley­ball team will have lit­tle time to ac­cli­ma­tise to con­di­tions as they go in­to ac­tion to­day in the Se­nior NORCE­CA Women’s Con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­onship at the “Pro­fes­sor Ri­car­do Gioriber Arias” Vol­ley­ball Palace from 1 pm.

Ki­no Daniel and Stephen Enile won the men's Open ti­tle while Aliyah Urquhart and Des­tiny Nar­cis se­cured the women's Open ti­tle as new cham­pi­ons were crowned when the fifth leg of the Trin­ba­go Beach Vol­ley­ball host­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion end­ed at Tur­tle Beach in Black Rock, To­ba­go on Sun­day.

NORTH SOUND, An­tigua –The An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons launched their home cam­paign in spec­tac­u­lar fash­ion Thurs­day night, snatch­ing a dra­mat­ic three-wick­et vic­to­ry over the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in the 12th match of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League.

PUN­TA CANA – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica, Bermu­da, Haiti and the home side Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic have booked their spots in the semi­fi­nal of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union’s (CFU) Un­der-14 Boys’ Tier 1 Chal­lenge Se­ries in Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

​Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der-14 Boys foot­ball team coach Ran­dolph Boyce says there are a lot of pos­i­tives he and his coach­ing staff have tak­en away from their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Caribbean Foot­ball Union Chal­lenge Se­ries at Cap Cana Sports City, Pun­ta Cana, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

Host Trinidad and To­ba­go Girls’ ‘A’ team, com­pris­ing Zara Walk­er, Anaya Roberts, and Tei­jha Welling­ton, cap­tured the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC) and World Ten­nis (for­mer­ly known as the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion–ITF) 2026 ITF/COTECC Un­der-12 Team Com­pe­ti­tion Sub-Re­gion 4 Tour­na­ment ti­tle on Thursday.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Pres­i­dent of the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA), Calvin Hope, has hailed the out­stand­ing ac­com­plish­ments of all-rounders Justin Greaves and Hay­ley Matthews af­ter they wrote their names in his­to­ry’s books ear­li­er this week.

De­spite all the prob­lems fac­ing the Crick­et Cana­da board, with the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) putting sanc­tions in place, chair­man of the Cana­di­an chap­ter of the In­ter­na­tion­al Mas­ters Coun­cil (IMC) Ak­shay Pandya has brought smiles to Cana­di­ans this sum­mer by get­ting the world to come and play at the IMC Over-60 World Cup.

"I must stop think­ing. I'll pre­tend that every­thing's all right and then every­thing will be." (from the nov­el "Veroni­ka De­cides to Die" by Paulo Coel­ho, Brazil­ian philoso­pher, 1921-1997)

ROAD TOWN – St Vin­cent and the Grenadines reigned supreme among the men, while Bermu­da was crowned queens when the East­ern Caribbean Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Cham­pi­onships con­clud­ed in the British Vir­gin Is­lands over the week­end.

Trinidad and To­ba­go cy­clist Kaylee Young bowed out of the women’s in­di­vid­ual sprint event at the round-of-32 af­ter she fell ill on the sec­ond day of the 51st UCI Ju­nior Track World Cham­pi­onships at the Sport Vlaan­deren Heus­den-Zold­er Velo­drome in Lim­burg, Bel­gium, on Thurs­day.