KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Rein­vig­o­rat­ed West In­dies bats­man Jer­maine Black­wood is champ­ing at the bit ahead of the tour of Eng­land, and hopes to get the chance to ex­press him­self.

Phoenix Women's Crick­et Club swept all ma­jor ti­tles in the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion of the T&T Women's Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (TTWCA) com­pe­ti­tions which saw T&T's lead­ing women's crick­eters in ac­tion at var­i­ous venues in the coun­try.

Crick­et West In­dies' (CWI) has named a 14-man squad that fea­tures no Trinida­di­ans for next month’s pro­posed San­dals Tour of Eng­land.

A lot of good news con­tin­ues to flow for sports fans as many sport­ing events open around the world.

No West In­dies play­er will be forced to trav­el on the tour of Eng­land if they feel un­com­fort­able with arrange­ments, Crick­et West In­dies chief ex­ec­u­tive John­ny Grave has said.

While the gov­ern­ment of T&T has re­ceived jus­ti­fied com­pli­ments for their ini­tial han­dling of the caron­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic over time, some of the en­thu­si­asm for their proac­tive ac­tions have been di­lut­ed by their con­ser­v­a­tive ap­proach to the re­open­ing of the econ­o­my.

Busi­ness­man and for­mer banker Nigel Ro­mano, who is a mem­ber of the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee, said his com­mit­tee has been work­ing on a pay­ment mech­a­nism to en­sure that the staff and coach­es of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) can be paid.

Sprint­er Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste re­mains pas­sion­ate about win­ning a medal for at the Olympic Games al­though it may like­ly be her fi­nal ap­pear­ance next year at the post­poned event in Tokyo, Japan. This was quite ob­vi­ous dur­ing an in­ter­view with An­dre Er­rol Bap­tiste on is­ports on i95.5fm on Sat­ur­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – As­sis­tant coach Rod­dy Es­t­wick be­lieves West In­dies are bet­ter poised now than three years ago to carve out a pos­i­tive se­ries re­sult on their pro­posed tour of Eng­land.

Fed up they have not been paid for the past three months (March, April and May) of 2020, the coach­es of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion have agreed to ap­proach Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to as­sist them in get­ting the salaries owed to them.

Trib­utes keep pour­ing in for Rolf Bar­to­lo from dif­fer­ent quar­ters in Trinidad and To­ba­go. On Sun­day morn­ing the own­er/train­er/breed­er passed away qui­et­ly at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter a short bat­tle with can­cer.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s an­nounce­ment that phase three of the re­open­ing of the T&T econ­o­my dur­ing the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic re­stric­tions be­gan on Mon­day was met with wel­come re­lief by many cit­i­zens but most­ly the busi­ness sec­tor.