DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The 2026 In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) auc­tion de­liv­ered seis­mic shocks and strate­gic steals, head­lined by Kolkata Knight Rid­ers (KKR) mak­ing Aus­tralia’s Cameron Green the most ex­pen­sive over­seas play­er of all time, while the West In­dies’ sea­soned stars found new homes af­ter in­tense bid­ding wars.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI – West In­dies as­sis­tant coach Floyd Reifer has is­sued a blunt as­sess­ment of his bat­ting unit ahead of the de­ci­sive third and fi­nal Test against New Zealand, start­ing Wednes­day at Bay Oval in New Zealand.

ABU DHABI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The Desert Vipers’ un­beat­en run came to a dra­mat­ic, nail-bit­ing end at the Za­yed Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Tues­day night, as the Abu Dhabi Knight Rid­ers, with West In­di­ans An­dre Rus­sell, Ja­son Hold­er, Sher­fane Ruther­ford and Sunil Nar­ine, clinched a stun­ning one-run vic­to­ry to hand the league lead­ers their first de­feat of the In­ter­na­tion­al League (ILT20) sea­son.

​Hu­man Re­source (HR) cap­i­tal is crit­i­cal. But is its im­por­tance over­rat­ed or un­der­rat­ed in the world of sports, and per­haps in most or­gan­i­sa­tions?

LON­DON, Eng­land– Af­ter en­dur­ing a thrash­ing at the hands of Eng­land Ros­es in their just con­clud­ed Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball Se­ries, head coach of Ja­maica’s Sun­shine Girls, Sash­er Gaye Hen­ry-Wright said she is not sat­is­fied with her team’s show­ing, de­spite field­ing an in­ex­pe­ri­enced squad.

Nikoli Black­man se­cured a spot at the Carif­ta Games af­ter com­plet­ing the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) In­vi­ta­tion­al Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, with a vic­to­ry in the boys’ 50-me­tre freestyle on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

MAN­CHES­TER, Lon­don – As­ton Vil­la man­ag­er Na­talia Ar­royo has de­scribed Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al and Man­ches­ter City for­ward Khadi­ja "Bun­ny" Shaw as the best strik­er in the Women’s Su­per League (WSL).

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Cap­tain Lo­mar Seechar­ran led from the front with an un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry to guide Guyana Un­der-13s to a com­pre­hen­sive nine-wick­et win over Bar­ba­dos Un­der-13’s at the Lusig­nan Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre in Guyana on Sun­day.

The Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Fu­ture Stars gave a dogged dis­play but had to set­tle for a 5-2 loss against the Ja­maica Un­der-17 team on the open­ing day of the Jew­els of the Caribbean Foot­ball Tour­na­ment at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, Mon­day (De­cem­ber 15).

The see-saw move­ment at the top of the 12-team stand­ings in Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League, con­tin­ued­with Club San­do’s stay last­ing just for 24 hours fol­low­ing Sun­day’s round of match­es.

A can­cer di­ag­no­sis does not have to be a death sen­tence. Hope and de­spair are two sides of the same coin. It is a heavy bur­den, an in­tense­ly per­son­al and of­ten over­whelm­ing ex­pe­ri­ence.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Pugilists from Guyana will now be el­i­gi­ble to com­pete at the Olympic Games af­ter the Guyana Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (GBA) se­cured pro­vi­sion­al recog­ni­tion from World Box­ing.