LI­MA, Pe­ru – The crick­et fi­nals at the 2025 Bo­li­var­i­an Games in Li­ma, Pe­ru, de­liv­ered some high-oc­tane ac­tion as Bar­ba­dos and Ja­maica emerged vic­to­ri­ous to claim the cov­et­ed gold medals in the men’s and women’s com­pe­ti­tions, re­spec­tive­ly, at the Li­ma Po­lo club.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shal­low has main­tained that there is no in­ten­tion to fire West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my, de­spite his los­ing record since tak­ing charge of all for­mats ear­li­er this year.

The dry sea­son in the Caribbean of­fers a great chance to en­joy out­door ac­tiv­i­ties like run­ning, cy­cling, walk­ing, and hik­ing, which are be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly pop­u­lar recre­ation­al choic­es. En­gag­ing in these phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties pro­vides var­i­ous health, men­tal, and so­cial ben­e­fits, mak­ing them ef­fec­tive, drug-free ways to sup­port a healthy lifestyle. Among these ac­tiv­i­ties, run­ning stands out as par­tic­u­lar­ly ac­ces­si­ble and ef­fec­tive as a vig­or­ous form of ex­er­cise with sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly proven ben­e­fits, es­pe­cial­ly in pre­vent­ing and man­ag­ing Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­eases (NCDs).

Alex Eke­sa’s bid for a record-ex­tend­ing fifth con­sec­u­tive Run Bar­ba­dos marathon ti­tle came to a dis­tress­ing con­clu­sion on Sun­day morn­ing, with the Kenyan forced to aban­don the race due to in­jury.

Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School will re­new their ri­val­ry with Na­pari­ma Col­lege af­ter both teams con­test the fi­nal of the Co­ca-Co­la Sec­ondary Schools Na­tion­al In­ter­Col Tour­na­ment on Wednes­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Dr Kishore Shal­low will not re­lin­quish his role as pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), de­spite be­ing named as St Vin­cent and the Grenadines’ Min­is­ter of Tourism and Mar­itime Af­fairs.

T&T crick­eters suf­fered their first loss at the Bo­li­var­i­an Games, when they went un­der to ri­vals Bar­ba­dos at the Li­ma Po­lo Club in Bas­ni Be­li­ma, Pe­ru Fri­day.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – West In­dies Test cap­tain, Ros­ton Chase has laud­ed his troops for their out­stand­ing per­for­mance which helped them earn a draw in the open­ing Test against New Zealand on Sat­ur­day.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Led by her­culean ef­forts from Justin Greaves and Ke­mar Roach, the West In­dies pro­duced one of the best-ever bat­ting per­for­mances in Test his­to­ry to de­fy the odds and se­cure a hard-fought draw against New Zealand in the open­ing Test on Sat­ur­day.

CHRISTCHURCH – A fight­ing, un­beat­en cen­tu­ry from Shai Hope, cou­pled with Justin Greaves’ stel­lar half-cen­tu­ry, have put West In­dies in po­si­tion to push for an un­like­ly but pos­si­ble vic­to­ry against New Zealand head­ing in­to Fri­day’s fifth and fi­nal day of the open­ing Test in New Zealand.

New­ly crowned Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion cham­pi­on, Na­pari­ma Col­lege, moved one step clos­er to a his­toric tre­ble af­ter edg­ing St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary 1-0 in semi­fi­nal one of the Co­ca Co­la Boys' In­ter­col on Fri­day at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va.

I was born in Ari­ma of the 1950s, a small "coun­try" town in­hab­it­ed by peo­ple who had a dis­tinct sense of self and who dubbed them­selves "gens d'Arime" - Ari­ma peo­ple - in a def­er­en­tial tip of the hat to the French pa­tois roots and tra­di­tion of many cit­i­zens, in­clud­ing my own moth­er and grand­moth­er. Gens d'Arime saw them­selves as a breed apart from oth­er peo­ple - spe­cial.