Na­tion­al youth team play­er Ma­lik Gopaul will be tar­get­ing a suc­cess­ful de­fence of his ti­tle in the Un­der-19 Boys Sin­gles com­pe­ti­tion of the Arawak-spon­sored Trinidad and To­ba­go Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion (T&TT­TA) Sil­ver Bowl Age-Group Cham­pi­onships which serves off to­day.

By any mea­sure, 20 years is a long time, but in the world of elite sport, it can amount to an over­lap of gen­er­a­tions. Take, for in­stance, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force team’s as­cen­sion to re­gion­al four-day crick­et cham­pi­ons for the first time in two decades, which fea­tured on­ly two play­ers who were 15 years old or old­er in 2006, when the team last won the tour­na­ment. Evin Lewis was 15 at the time, and Ja­son Mo­hammed was 20. In­ci­den­tal­ly, Mo­hammed de­buted in that 2006 team, which al­so con­tained cur­rent head coach Rayad Em­rit. Iron­i­cal­ly, both Mo­hammed and Lewis chose to re­tire from first-class crick­et at the end of this sea­son fol­low­ing vic­to­ry over the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles in the 2026 West In­dies Cham­pi­onship fi­nal at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um, An­tigua, on Wednes­day.

World Foot­ball Day at the Unit­ed Na­tions on Mon­day (May 25) un­der­scores a com­pelling re­al­i­ty: the FI­FA World Cup 2026™ stands as a pow­er­ful tes­ta­ment to what coun­tries can achieve through sus­tained in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath has called for the Red Force team to be be­stowed with a na­tion­al award.

For­mer na­tion­al foot­baller Kevin Moli­no and na­tion­al play­er Jo­evin Jones yes­ter­day have iden­ti­fied them­selves as the two lo­cal pro­fes­sion­al foot­ballers that were al­leged­ly caught in a Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) sting op­er­a­tion on Tues­day in con­nec­tion with the dis­cov­ery of a quan­ti­ty of drugs at a Boy Cato Road, St. He­le­na house and was re­port­ed­ly re­leased with­out charge. Both play­ers is­sued state­ments on their in­sta­gram han­dles on so­cial me­dia.

One is not born with po­lit­i­cal con­scious­ness. It is a liv­ing or­gan­ism, evo­lu­tion­ary in char­ac­ter, in­flu­enced by di­rect ex­pe­ri­ence and ex­ter­nal stim­uli, and sub­ject to adap­ta­tion and change. Like po­lit­i­cal be­lief, it is not nec­es­sar­i­ly per­ma­nent. It de­vel­ops over time as one be­gins to in­ter­pret one’s en­vi­ron­ment, one’s his­to­ry, the ob­serv­able events of the day, close to home and far away. I am a child of the an­ti-colo­nial 1960s. I re­mem­ber my par­ents lis­ten­ing to the night­ly ra­dio broad­cast of de­bate in our new­ly in­de­pen­dent Par­lia­ment.

Ath­let­ic Club Port-of-Spain (AC PoS) will be con­fi­dent of main­tain­ing their four-point lead at the top of the T&T Women’s League Foot­ball (WoLF) Trinidad Group stand­ings when they meet the youth­ful Trend­set­ter Hawks at NUGFW Ground, Val­sayn, from 4 pm on Sun­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Pro­fes­sion­al Foot­ball Ja­maica Lim­it­ed (PFJL), Owen Hill has main­tained that it would be too cost­ly to in­tro­duce Video As­sis­tant Ref­er­ee (VAR) tech­nol­o­gy for the Ja­maican Pre­mier League (JPL) play­offs.

ST JOHN’S – Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force’s pace quar­tet of Jay­den Seales, An­der­son Phillip, Ter­rance Hinds and Joshua James ran through the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles’ line­up in im­pres­sive fash­ion to bowl their side to its first West In­dies Cham­pi­onship ti­tle in two decades.

TORON­TO, Cana­da – Guyana-born Shiv Per­saud is the new Pres­i­dent of Crick­et On­tario hav­ing been elect­ed at a re­cent Spe­cial Meet­ing.

Sal­isha Lochan showed her class, win­ning the fi­nal of the Na­tion­al Women’s 8 Ball Cham­pi­onships, held at Sig­na­ture Bil­liards in Champ Fleurs.

MAN­CHES­TER, Eng­land – Man­ches­ter City su­per­star Khadi­ja ‘Bun­ny’ Shaw has ad­mit­ted she would pre­fer to stay at the club fol­low­ing a huge­ly suc­cess­ful sea­son.