KINGSTON – US sprint great Michael John­son on Mon­day an­nounced that Kingston, Ja­maica, will host the in­au­gur­al Grand Slam Track com­pe­ti­tion next April.

Thurs­day is the day St. Bene­dict’s Col­lege will know if they can cel­e­brate as the 2024 cham­pi­ons Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) in the Boy’s Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion and if the school main­tains its top-seed­ing in the In­ter­Col tour­na­ment.

The Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) has long been a cor­ner­stone of Trin­bag­on­ian foot­ball, nur­tur­ing young tal­ent and cap­ti­vat­ing the na­tion. The SS­FL un­doubt­ed­ly re­mains the most pop­u­lar foot­ball league in the coun­try. As a proud alum­nus of Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, I’ve al­ways held a deep af­fec­tion for the SS­FL, as it is a league that has pro­duced count­less tal­ent­ed play­ers and pro­vid­ed end­less hours of ex­cite­ment for pas­sion­ate stu­dents and alum­ni across the na­tion. 

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia – De­spite be­ing thor­ough­ly out­played by Eng­land in the first two T20 in­ter­na­tion­als, West In­dies’ white-ball head coach Daren Sam­my be­lieves the home side has the nec­es­sary man­pow­er to pull off a come­back vic­to­ry in the fi­nal three match­es.

Trail­ing the best-of-five se­ries 0-2, the West In­dies need to win at the Daren Sam­my Crick­et Ground if they are to have any chance of win­ning the se­ries and avoid­ing their first T20 home se­ries loss since 2023.

In just a few days since his ar­rival, Dwight Yorke has al­ready made his pres­ence felt with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go squad. Lead­ing two days of in­tense train­ing, Yorke’s in­flu­ence on the field is ev­i­dent, as he brings his leg­endary “Y-fac­tor"—his unique  blend of ex­pe­ri­ence, lead­er­ship, and ner­gy—to  in­spire both sea­soned play­ers and emerg­ing tal­ent.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Alzarri Joseph has made his re­turn to the West In­dies’ T20 squad for the three re­main­ing T20 in­ter­na­tion­als against Eng­land fol­low­ing his two-game sus­pen­sion.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Guyana’s lead­ing lux­u­ry home de­sign­er, Wind­sor Es­tates has part­nered with the in­au­gur­al Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL).

On day two of a live-in camp in Bal­main, Cou­va the for­mer Man­ches­ter Unit­ed play­er held his sec­ond train­ing ses­sion with the sup­port of his full staff at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um on Wednes­day be­gin­ning un­der the rays of the scorch­ing sun be­fore a heavy down­pour failed to stop both play­ers and staff, all of whom have set their sights on qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the 2026 FI­FA World Cup to be host­ed joint­ly by Con­ca­caf na­tions- Mex­i­co, the Unit­ed States and Cana­da.  

For­mer na­tion­al mid­field­er Rus­sell Lat­apy has been in­clud­ed in a four-man coach­ing staff to work along­side new T&T foot­ball coach Dwight Yorke for the 2026 FI­FA/Con­ca­caf World Cup Qual­i­fiers, which will re­sume in June next year. 

ADE­LAIDE – West In­dies team­mates Hay­ley Matthews and De­an­dra Dot­tin led a his­toric per­for­mance by the Mel­bourne Rene­gades in their nine-wick­et de­mo­li­tion of Ade­laide Strik­ers when the Women’s Big Bash League (WB­BL) con­tin­ued in Aus­tralia on Mon­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – West In­dies T20 skip­per Rov­man Pow­ell says his spe­cial­ist bat­ters need to de­liv­er the goods if the home side is to have a re­al­is­tic chance of win­ning the se­ries against archri­vals Eng­land.