PAARL, South Africa – The West In­dies un­veiled their 15-man squad for the up­com­ing ICC T20 World Cup on Mon­day, blend­ing sea­soned pow­er-hit­ters with crafty bowlers in a bid to re­claim the tro­phy they last won ten years ago.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The se­lec­tion of the West In­dies squad for the ICC T20 World Cup has sparked its first no­table con­tro­ver­sy, with vet­er­an crick­et com­men­ta­tor and ra­dio talk show host An­drew Ma­son open­ly ques­tion­ing the in­clu­sion of 37-year-old wick­et­keep­er-bat­ter John­son Charles.

Jan­u­ary trans­fer win­dow sign­ings Jo­evin Jones and Nicholas Dil­lon both scored hat-tricks to lead de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons. De­fence Force Elite to an em­phat­ic 9-0 ham­mer­ing of Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble-head­er at Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 25) night.

The trio of Nicholas Paul, Njisane Phillips, and Makaira Wal­lace will lead a large T&T cy­cling team to the com­ing Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile, from Feb­ru­ary 16-22.

MI­A­MI, Flori­da – The open­ing round of the 2026 Con­ca­caf Women’s Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship qual­i­fiers saw com­mand­ing per­for­mances from Cos­ta Ri­ca and Haiti on Sun­day, as ac­tion un­fold­ed across Groups C, D, and E.

Ross Ramkissoon turned the ta­bles on a com­pet­i­tive men’s field on the fi­nal day of the Pointe-a-Pierre Golf Club Three-Day Golf Cham­pi­onship Open in San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 25), bring­ing the cur­tain down on a high­ly com­pet­i­tive tour­na­ment that of­fered play­ers the op­por­tu­ni­ty to earn valu­able World Am­a­teur Golf Rank­ing (WA­GR) points.

A num­ber of pos­i­tive things hap­pened in the lead-up to, dur­ing, and af­ter the 12th T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Gold Foun­da­tion Marathon Chal­lenge last week. In fact, there were far more pos­i­tives than neg­a­tives, things that mat­ter and pro­vide the im­pe­tus for plan­ning next year’s 13th edi­tion. But that is a dis­cus­sion for an­oth­er day.

CAS­TRIES, Saint Lu­cia – In a glit­ter­ing cer­e­mo­ny that cel­e­brat­ed past glo­ry and fu­ture promise, the Saint Lu­cia Ath­let­ics As­so­ci­a­tion (SLAA) once again be­stowed its high­est ho­n­our up­on sprint sen­sa­tion Julien Al­fred, nam­ing her the Fe­male Ath­lete of the Year for 2025. She shares the spot­light with quar­ter-mil­er Mar­vric Pam­phile, who claimed the male ti­tle.

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion is putting in the work and hopes to see the ben­e­fits of their labour.

In the high-stakes are­na of mod­ern sports, the dif­fer­ence be­tween medal­ing and al­so-ran re­sults is not just about raw tal­ent or nat­ur­al abil­i­ty. As the gap in phys­i­cal con­di­tion­ing nar­rows, the com­pet­i­tive edge has shift­ed to­ward strate­gic in­tel­li­gence. For ath­letes, teams, coach­es, train­ers, and tech­ni­cal per­son­nel seek­ing to break through per­for­mance plateaus, ap­ply­ing busi­ness plan­ning tools such as SWOT and PES­TLE is in­eluctable.

With the ex­cep­tion of bats­man Cephas Coop­er’s 154, and team­mate Navin Bidaisee 90, on the open­ing day of the 2025 sea­son, it was the bowlers who dom­i­nat­ed the spot­light in all four match­es, led by the Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) spin trio, who proved too much for the Mer­ry­boys bats­men when Yan­nic Cari­ah, Bryan Charles, and Mikkell Govia led the Parkites to an in­nings and 113-run win in Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin, on Sun­day, day two of the T&T Crick­et Board Na­tion­al League com­pe­ti­tion for Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion I teams.

T&T sprint­er Jereem Richards edged 100 me­tres Olympic cham­pi­on Noah Lyles of the USA to the win when both faced off in the Jesse Lou­bier men’s 300m fi­nal at the New Bal­ance In­door Grand Prix in Boston, Sat­urday (Jan­u­ary 24).