KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The West In­dies Play­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) ex­press­es con­do­lences at the pass­ing of Bernard Julien.

Kingston, Ja­maica – In the wake of an ex­tra­or­di­nary year for Ja­maican ath­let­ics, the na­tion is turn­ing its spot­light to the mas­ter­minds be­hind the suc­cess: the coach­es.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos — Dur­ing the State of the Tourism In­dus­try Con­fer­ence (SOT­IC), Crick­et West In­dies chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) Chris Dehring urged tourism part­ners who fi­nan­cial­ly ben­e­fit from West In­dies crick­et to share re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for its re­cov­ery and con­tin­ued health.

The head­line read: “More work­ers lose jobs; Sport Min­istry short-term staff hit”. How­ev­er, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts de­nied that any em­ploy­ees were dis­missed, in­sist­ing that the con­tracts of short-term work­ers sim­ply ex­pired.

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go and West In­dies all-rounder Bernard Julien has died at the age of 75.

There comes a point in sport when log­ic and emo­tions have to step aside. A point where the on­ly thing that mat­ters is whether you are will­ing to give ab­solute­ly every­thing, even when the con­se­quences are un­known.

It was an­oth­er defin­ing mo­ment for bil­liards in Trinidad and To­ba­go as Shaz­ara “Zara” Baksh, who stormed through the field at the 2025 Vir­go Vendet­ta Dou­ble Elim­i­na­tion Com­pe­ti­tion held at the Top Strykaz Pool Bar and Sports Lounge in Kingston, Ja­maica, last week­end.

Be­ing a glut­ton for West In­dies pun­ish­ment, I sac­ri­ficed much-need­ed sleep af­ter long days of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty to watch the West In­dies or­ches­trate yet an­oth­er sham­bol­ic per­for­mance. And while it was tak­ing place over two and a half days in In­dia, I be­gan to pon­der the de­f­i­n­i­tion of mad­ness: ‘do­ing the same thing over and over yet still want­i­ng change.’ As such, I de­cid­ed to look for out­liers. Two-Tier Test Crick­et came to mind. The fol­low­ing is ground­ed in ra­tio­nal­i­ty with­out the temp­ta­tions of nos­tal­gia for the hal­cy­on days of West In­dies crick­et. Ul­tra­na­tion­al­ists will tear in­to the idea, but some­times to reach the hori­zon, it be­comes nec­es­sary to lose sight of the shore, even if tem­porar­i­ly.

This ar­ti­cle of­fers a re­flec­tion of my ex­pe­ri­ence fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the sec­ond edi­tion of the Com­mon­wealth Sport’s flag­ship Para sport de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme, GAPS (Gath­er, Ad­just, Pre­pare, Sus­tain) Amer­i­c­as & Caribbean, which was held in Ja­maica from Ju­ly 20 to 26, 2025. My views were pro­found­ly shaped by the pro­gramme’s abil­i­ty to il­lu­mi­nate the pow­er of sport to trans­form lives, par­tic­u­lar­ly the lives of Per­sons with Dis­abil­i­ties (PWDs).

Ja­maica’s Reg­gae Girlz will be here to test the T&T se­nior women’s foot­ballers in two friend­ly match­es ahead of the Women’s World Cup Qual­i­fiers, which be­gin next month and will con­tin­ue in Feb­ru­ary and then April 2026.

A mid­week 30-over com­pe­ti­tion may be mak­ing a re­turn to the lo­cal cir­cuit in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion in 2026. Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath made the an­nounce­ment at the T&TCB Pre­mier League Awards Cer­e­mo­ny at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Cou­va on Fri­day night.

Na­pari­ma Col­lege con­tin­ued the win­ning trend that kept them ahead on the 16-team stand­ings in the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) af­ter drub­bing low­ly Cara­pichaima Sec­ondary School 3-0 at their Lewis Street Ground, San Fer­nan­do home on Sat­ur­day.