I was born in Ari­ma of the 1950s, a small "coun­try" town in­hab­it­ed by peo­ple who had a dis­tinct sense of self and who dubbed them­selves "gens d'Arime" - Ari­ma peo­ple - in a def­er­en­tial tip of the hat to the French pa­tois roots and tra­di­tion of many cit­i­zens, in­clud­ing my own moth­er and grand­moth­er. Gens d'Arime saw them­selves as a breed apart from oth­er peo­ple - spe­cial.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Rachin Ravin­dra and skip­per Tom Lath­am hit con­trast­ing cen­turies as New Zealand tight­ened their grip on the open­ing Test against West In­dies with a dom­i­nant per­for­mance by their bat­ters on Wednes­day’s third day .

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go goal­keep­er Sha­ka His­lop has re­vealed that he is bat­tling prostate can­cer.

The Pan­thers have not been hav­ing the best of sea­sons in the Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL) Eight Ball com­pe­ti­tion. Play­ing in Group B of the NPL, the Shamir Ny­sus-cap­tained Pan­thers have won four match­es in eleven out­ings.

Kenya-born and T&T-based long-dis­tance run­ner Alex Eke­sa is chas­ing a record-ex­tend­ing fifth Run Bar­ba­dos Marathon ti­tle when the event comes off on Sun­day (De­cem­ber 7)at the Bay Street Es­planade in St Michael, Bar­ba­dos.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low, will make a de­ci­sion by this week­end on whether he will step down from the po­si­tion.

KINGSTON – A 2-2 draw with Uni­ver­si­dad O&M FC was enough to help Mount Pleas­ant FA cap­ture their first-ever CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Cup ti­tle at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Ja­maica on Tues­day.

​The Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry School Foot­ball League fi­nals took place Wednesday morn­ing at the Ari­ma Velo­drome, serv­ing up a spec­tac­u­lar day of foot­ball de­spite ear­ly chal­lenges. Fol­low­ing heavy show­ers that had drenched the grounds for over two hours, the sun emerged pre­cise­ly as the tour­na­ment be­gan at 10.20 am.

De­fence Force earned a berth at the 2026 Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup, de­spite a 2-1 loss to Cibao FC of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic in San­to Domin­go on Tues­day evening.

It was a bee­hive of ac­tiv­i­ty as some 120 boys and girls from across south-east­ern Trinidad con­verged at the Ma­yaro Re­source Cen­tre last week­end to take part in the Ma­yaro Youth Foot­ball Fes­ti­val held un­der the ban­ner of “Shine On”.

CHRISTCHURCH – Pac­ers Ja­cob Duffy and Matt Hen­ry ran through the West In­dies’ bat­ting to leave New Zealand firm­ly in con­trol of the open­ing Test at the end of Wednes­day’s sec­ond day of play in New Zealand.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for na­tion­al track and field coach Wade "Ba­by" Franklyn will be held on Fri­day (De­cem­ber 5) at the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex in Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go, from 10 am.