Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NAAA), Ephraim Ser­rette, be­lieves this coun­try’s team head­ed to the 53rd CARIF­TA Games at the Ki­rani James Ath­let­ics Sta­di­um in St George’s, Grena­da, can sur­pass the 25 medal haul its pre­de­ces­sors won in 2025.

T&T-born Turk­ish in­ter­na­tion­al Sinead Jack-Kisal and Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it will need to come from be­hind in their semi­fi­nal se­ries against ri­vals Vak­if­bank if they are to reach the Turk­ish Voda­fone Sul­tan Women’s Vol­ley­ball League play­offs fi­nal.

Na­tion­al women’s coach Dami­an Brig­gs is at­tempt­ing to block out the “noise” for his play­ers ahead of their fi­nal Group F en­counter against El Sal­vador on April 17 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

Kali­fa Mc­Collin of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) Pa­tri­ots was named the 2026 ‘Most Valu­able Play­er’ of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League when the sea­son came to an end at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua on Mon­day.

As the na­tion­al track and field youth team pre­pares to fly the red, white, and black in Grena­da, the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) has con­firmed a sig­nif­i­cant change to the ros­ter. Stand­out sprint­er Gio­van­ni Bobb-Sem­ple has of­fi­cial­ly with­drawn from the 2026 Carif­ta Games.

“For me per­son­al­ly, for her be­ing a woman com­ing from Africa, know­ing how African women or women in the Glob­al South are af­fect­ed by that, of course it caus­es harm,” Cast­er Se­menya.

HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH – Saffie Joseph Jr put the fin­ish­ing touch­es on his 15th con­sec­u­tive lead­ing train­er ti­tle at Gulf­stream Park as the 2025-2026 Cham­pi­onship Meet con­clud­ed its pres­ti­gious 72-day win­ter stand in Flori­da on Sun­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Ja­maica’s re­turn­ing Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fran­chise has been of­fi­cial­ly re­named the Ja­maica Kings­men.

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts– Geor­gia Ware­ham pro­duced a sec­ond straight Play­er-of-the-Match per­for­mance to help Aus­tralia Women con­tin­ue their dom­i­nance over West In­dies Women via a 90-run vic­to­ry in the sec­ond ODI here on Sun­day.

De­vanand Ma­haraj is the new pres­i­dent of the T&T Bad­minton As­so­ci­a­tion af­ter pre­vail­ing over his coun­ter­parts, Ja­nine Reyes and for­mer bad­minton ace Anil Seep­aul, in a hot­ly con­test­ed elec­tion on Sun­day at Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas.

De­spite a brace by Spar­tak Moscow’s Levi Gar­cia and two saves from goal­keep­er Jabari Brice, the T&T se­nior foot­ball team went down 3-2 to Gabon in a penal­ty shoot-out that fol­lowed a 2-2 re­sult at the end of reg­u­la­tion time in the FI­FA Se­ries on Mon­day at the Pakhtakor Cen­tral Sta­di­um in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan.

While the West In­dies men’s team fa­mous­ly de­buted in 1928, the women’s side be­gan its Test jour­ney forty-eight (48) years lat­er, in 1976. How­ev­er, re­gion­al women’s crick­et had al­ready made its mark on the world stage.