I was pret­ty alarmed when I read the phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty up­date from the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) pub­lished in June 2024. The ti­tle reads ‘Glob­al lev­els of phys­i­cal in­ac­tiv­i­ty in adults off track for 2030’. So why was I alarmed? Over the years, ir­refutable re­search has shown that en­gag­ing in phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty is the most ef­fec­tive med­i­cine for re­duc­ing the risk of de­vel­op­ing non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases, man­ag­ing these dis­eases, im­prov­ing over­all health, and, by ex­ten­sion, qual­i­ty of life.  

Re­jec­tion is of­ten a bless­ing in dis­guise, guid­ing you to­ward a dif­fer­ent path that aligns more close­ly with your true po­ten­tial.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Un­der fire Bar­ba­dos all­rounder Ray­mon Reifer has been in­clud­ed in Bar­ba­dos Pride’s pro­vi­sion­al 25-man squad as they gear up for the up­com­ing West In­dies Four-Day Cham­pi­onship.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph has been nom­i­nat­ed for the Se­nior Sports­man of the Year award for 2024 by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Sports and Cre­ative In­dus­tries.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced that fast-bowl­ing all-rounder Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er and un­capped quick Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow have earned call-ups to the 15-mem­ber West In­dies’ squad for the six white-ball fix­tures against Bangladesh at home. 

Their First Di­vi­sion team has won three in a row, and the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion team is in the midst of a four-match win­ning streak.

Fol­low­ing his stint as act­ing trea­sur­er of the TTCB since Feb­ru­ary 2024, Stephen Ramkissoon has se­cured the po­si­tion on a full-time ba­sis. This was due to for­mer trea­sur­er Kiswah Chaitoo los­ing his ap­peal in De­cem­ber af­ter the board moved a vote of no con­fi­dence in him in Jan­u­ary 2024.

On Tues­day on is­ports, news broke that the promised Olympic Games 2028 de­cider se­ries for the Caribbean will be held in Trinidad and To­ba­go from April 18 to May 11 at two venues, the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba and Queens Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force is con­duct­ing the on­go­ing 2024-2025 Phys­i­cal Train­ing In­struc­tors (PTI) Course in which par­tic­i­pants were en­gaged by Dex­ter Voisin, a World Ath­let­ics Cer­ti­fied Lec­tur­er, dur­ing a ses­sion at the De­fence Force Mil­i­tary Acad­e­my, St. Mede­line, San Fer­nan­do, on Tues­day. Both the De­fence For ce and the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NAAATT), who Voisin is an as­sis­tant gen­er­al sec­re­tary, have been work­ing in col­lab­o­ra­tion with this pro­gramme for sev­er­al years, with the NAAATT pro­vid­ing spe­cial­ized train­ing in track and field coach­ing and tech­ni­cal of­fi­ci­at­ing, while PTI stu­dents vol­un­teer their ser­vices at NAAATT events.

Hap­py New Year! 2025 is up­on us, and nor­mal­ly, I pre­view some up­com­ing im­por­tant sport­ing dates in the cal­en­dar. But I ask for your in­dul­gence as I need to go back to one of the most scin­til­lat­ing Test se­ries that I have had the plea­sure of wit­ness­ing.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow and Cher­ry Ann Fras­er have been in­clud­ed in the West In­dies women's squad to com­pete against Bangladesh in their up­com­ing in­au­gur­al bi­lat­er­al white-ball tour of the West In­dies from Jan­u­ary 19-31.

IS­LAM­ABAD, Pak­istan – West In­dies Test head coach An­dre Co­ley wants to see the re­gion­al team im­prove on their 2024 per­for­mances when they take on Pak­istan in a two-match Test se­ries lat­er this month.