GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – A new chap­ter in Caribbean ath­let­ics is be­ing writ­ten as Guyana of­fi­cial­ly kick­starts prepa­ra­tions to host the 2027 Carif­taGames, mark­ing the first time in his­to­ry the na­tion will wel­come the re­gion’s pre­mier youth track and field cham­pi­onship.

Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) cap­tain Nicholas Pooran is hop­ing that his team makes use of its home ad­van­tage on the Trinidad leg of the tour­na­ment, start­ing tonight at Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain at 7 pm.

LON­DON, Eng­land – Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al Khadi­jah ‘Bun­ny’ Shaw has been named the Pro­fes­sion­al Foot­ballers’ As­so­ci­a­tions (PFA) Women’s Play­er of the Year.

Team Wilco, com­pris­ing Liam Bry­den, Ryan Gomez, and Willie Med­ford, suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed the Dwayne Bra­vo Foun­da­tion Char­i­ty Golf Tour­na­ment, be­com­ing back-to-back cham­pi­ons at St. An­drews Golf Club, Mo­ka, Mar­aval, on Mon­day af­ter tak­ing the in­au­gur­al ti­tle in 2024.

Trinidad and To­ba­go bas­ket­baller Malique Lewis is set to con­tin­ue his ca­reer in Aus­tralia with Na­tion­al Bas­ket­ball League (NBL) team Cairns Taipans, which an­nounced the sign­ing of the 21-year-old on a two-year deal.

GROS ISLET, Saint Lu­cia – The St Lu­cia Kings have been dealt a ma­jor blow with bat­ter Ac­k­eem Au­guste ruled out of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League with im­me­di­ate ef­fect due to med­ical rea­sons.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Head coach of Ja­maica’s Un­der-14 foot­ball team, Vas­sell Reynolds, said he was not sat­is­fied with their per­for­mance in the fi­nal of the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed CFU Boys’ U-14 Chal­lenge Se­ries, which saw them go down 4-0 to Haiti.

NORTH SOUND – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors hard­ly broke a sweat on their way to a com­pre­hen­sive sev­en-wick­et win over the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons, their third in as many match­es in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League.

Ke­ston Bled­man, Marc Burns, Em­manuel Cal­len­der, Richard Thomp­son and Aaron Arm­strong are role mod­els and pos­i­tive ex­am­ples for the youth of Trinidad and To­ba­go. It is time to end the on­go­ing ef­forts to di­min­ish their Team TTO 4x100 me­tres men’s Bei­jing 2008 Olympic gold medal.

CHOR­ZOW – Amer­i­can Melis­sa Jef­fer­son-Wood­en hand­ed Julien Al­fred her first de­feat of the sea­son by storm­ing to vic­to­ry in the women’s 100m at the Sile­sia Di­a­mond League Poland on Sun­day.

KINGSTON – Ja­maica’s na­tion­al lacrosse team missed out on a podi­um fin­ish at the Pan Amer­i­can Men’s Lacrosse Cham­pi­onship when they went down to Hau­denosaunee 16-9 in the bronze medal match in Ja­maica on Sun­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Un­der-19 women’s crick­et team re­gained the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship in con­vinc­ing style. The na­tion­al youth team, which last won the re­gion­al ti­tle in 2023 in T&T, de­feat­ed Bar­ba­dos by 6 wick­ets in the fi­nal at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da. Bar­ba­dos scored 104 for 5 wick­ets in 20 overs, and Trinidad and To­ba­go achieved the tar­get of 105 for the loss of 4 wick­ets with 6 balls to spare.