For gen­er­a­tions, Trinidad and To­ba­go—and the wider Caribbean—has viewed sport through a rigid, colo­nial lens. We bow down to the al­tar of crick­et, pledge al­le­giance to foot­ball, and oc­ca­sion­al­ly spare a cheer for Olympic track and field. In do­ing so, we trap our youth—es­pe­cial­ly our young girls and women—in­side an out­dat­ed box, obliv­i­ous to the glob­al are­nas where mod­ern ath­letes thrive.

Olympian Leah Bertrand and mul­ti­ple-medal hock­ey play­er Jor­don Reynos have been se­lect­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Ath­letes’ Com­mis­sion to rep­re­sent the coun­try at the IV Con­ti­nen­tal Ath­letes’ Fo­rum in Cos­ta Ri­ca, tak­ing place from To­day, uni­til Wednes­day (Oc­to­ber 12-14).

Sport ad­min­is­tra­tors are re­serv­ing com­ment un­til the de­tails of this year’s $519,927,100 al­lo­ca­tion to the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs are re­vealed by Line Min­is­ter Phillip Watts dur­ing de­bate on the 2027 fis­cal pack­age.

A day af­ter he earned Trinidad and To­ba­go a sil­ver medal in the In­di­vid­ual Time Tri­al at the UCI Elite Caribbean Road Cham­pi­onships in San­to Domin­go, Ja­di­an Neaves added to his medal tal­ly by clinch­ing gold in the Men’s Un­der-23 di­vi­sion of the In­di­vid­ual Road Race Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 11).

Cli­mate change is no longer a dis­tant threat; it af­fects all as­pects of life, in­clud­ing sports [UN Sport for Cli­mate Ac­tion]. Ac­cord­ing to the UN Sports for Cli­mate Ac­tion Frame­work [2016], sports or­gan­i­sa­tions must take "re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for their cli­mate foot­print, help­ing glob­al am­bi­tion step up and in­cen­tivis­ing ac­tion be­yond sports to take mean­ing­ful and trans­for­ma­tive cli­mate ac­tion."

IN­DORE – ​Shim­ron Het­my­er and Kamil Pooran fought valiant­ly, but the West In­dies fell ag­o­nis­ing­ly short against In­dia in a thrilling third Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al at the Holkar Crick­et Sta­di­um in In­dia on Sun­day.

There shall be no at­tempt­ing to dress up what hap­pened dur­ing the Sep­tem­ber-Oc­to­ber in­ter­na­tion­al win­dow. Trinidad and To­ba­go dropped points, failed to win any of its four match­es and suf­fered rel­e­ga­tion from League A of the Con­ca­caf Na­tions League.

SHAR­JAH – Ben Hil­fen­haus and Fawad Ahmed pro­duced spec­tac­u­lar bowl­ing per­for­mances as Aus­tralia Cham­pi­ons got the bet­ter of West In­dies Cham­pi­ons by 36 runs in a low-scor­ing World Cham­pi­onship of Leg­ends con­test in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Sun­day.

Ta­fari Wal­dron and Ny­la Kerr sprang in­to a cel­e­bra­to­ry mood Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 10) by tak­ing the men’s and women’s di­vi­sions of the Sco­tia­bank Well­ness 5K Se­ries at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

A dogged dis­play, cou­pled with a bit of luck, earned Fa­ti­ma Col­lege a 1-0 vic­to­ry over a bat­tling St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege in the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT) Boys Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) at West­moor­ings on Sat­ur­day (Octiber 10) .

Ja­di­an Neaves earned Trinidad and To­ba­go its first medal at the Elite Caribbean Road Cham­pi­onships in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 10).

​Swim­mer Dy­lan Carter just missed out on a place in the fi­nal of the men’s 50-me­tre but­ter­fly Sat­urday (Oc­to­ber 11), as ac­tion con­tin­ued at the World Aquat­ics Swim­ming World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan.