I be­gin to­day’s Things That Mat­ter on a deeply painful per­son­al note: the un­ex­pect­ed death of my beloved younger broth­er Sean Pe­ter Cordell Lewis-Cox at 3.19 am on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) is hop­ing that the re­de­vel­oped Coolidge Crick­et Ground (CCG) in An­tigua can at­tract long-term, strate­gic in­vest­ment.

Trinidad & To­ba­go Le­gions cap­tain Joshua Da Sil­va smashed a half cen­tu­ry at the top of the or­der to help his side reg­is­ter a com­fort­able 23-run win over Guyana Rain­for­est Rangers and keep their un­beat­en streak alive in the West In­dies Break­out League on Sat­ur­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Le­gions used a bal­anced bowl­ing at­tack to sti­fle the Bar­ba­dos Pel­i­cans and emerge vic­to­ri­ous by 64 runs in their high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed West In­dies Break­out League clash here at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day.

T&T’s Teneil Camp­bell rode to her sec­ond bronze medal at the Road Con­ti­nen­tal Pan-Am Cham­pi­onships when she end­ed in third spot in the Road Race at Pun­ta del Este, Mal­don­a­do, Uruguay on Sat­ur­day.

As the na­tion stands on the thresh­old of an­oth­er gen­er­al elec­tion, we are called once again to re­flect — not just on the promis­es of politi­cians but on the pri­or­i­ties we choose for our­selves as a peo­ple. Among the press­ing is­sues of econ­o­my, se­cu­ri­ty, and health, one pow­er­ful yet un­der­utilised force de­mands our ur­gent at­ten­tion: sport.

The in­au­gur­al West In­dies Break­out League is set to bowl-off at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day af­ter­noon with the main ob­jec­tive to un­earth young crick­et­ing tal­ent in the re­gion.

T&T's Chloe Fras­er, Ma­lik Gopaul and Ji­nai Samuel stayed on course to se­cure medals in their re­spec­tive girls’ and boys’ sin­gles com­pe­ti­tions when they ad­vanced in their main draw of the Caribbean Re­gion­al Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion Youth Cham­pi­onships in Bar­ba­dos on Thurs­day.

Shawn Pouchet, Pres­i­dent of the Aquat­ics Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT), says dis­cus­sions have be­gun with three-time T&T Olympic swim­mer and three-time World Cham­pi­onship medal win­ner Dy­lan Carter to host a top-lev­el in­ter­na­tion­al in­vi­ta­tion­al swim meet here in T&T.

USA-based Liam Car­ring­ton won three in­di­vid­ual gold medals, and Zuri Fer­gu­son won two in­di­vid­ual gold medals, while Zachary An­tho­ny, Cather­ine Di­ef­fen­thaller, Ethan McMil­lan-Cole and Tay­lor Marchan all won gold for T&T on the fi­nal night of the 38th edi­tion of the Carif­ta Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) on Tues­day.

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.

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.