BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts — In a stun­ning and abrupt re­ver­sal, St. Kitts and Nevis has of­fi­cial­ly with­drawn its bid to host the 2027 CARIF­TA Games, dash­ing the hopes of a na­tion that had ea­ger­ly await­ed the re­turn of the re­gion’s pre­mier ju­nior ath­let­ics cham­pi­onships.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Bar­ba­dos took a big step to­wards re­tain­ing their ti­tle in the CWI Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Men’s 50-over Cham­pi­onship when they romped to their third suc­ces­sive win, Wednes­day (Ju­ly 15).

BREADY – Stafanie Tay­lor cracked a sec­ond suc­ces­sive cen­tu­ry and West In­dies’ spin­ners dis­man­tled Ire­land Women’s bat­ting line­up to see them com­plete a clean sweep of their One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries via a com­fort­able 64-run vic­to­ry in Ire­land on Wednes­day.

Goal-shoot­er Maikea Bram­ble of Soul City was recog­nised as the “Most Valu­able Play­er” (MVP) for her team and the top shoot­er in the A Di­vi­sion of the Lystra Lewis Port-of-Spain Net­ball League (LL­POSNL), which con­clud­ed on Mon­day fol­low­ing an ex­cit­ing Men’s Di­vi­sion fi­nal at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty.

GEORGE­TOWN – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors have un­veiled their over­seas play­er ros­ter for the up­com­ing 2026 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League sea­son, as­sem­bling a star-stud­ded quin­tet that blends vet­er­an savvy with ex­plo­sive youth as the fran­chise aims to build on its im­pres­sive 2025 cam­paign.

For many avid foot­ball fans, noth­ing com­pares to the brag­ging rights that come with cor­rect­ly pre­dict­ing the out­come of a match. That is the con­cept be­hind the new so­cial foot­ball pre­dic­tion app, Bantryx.

An Ini­tia­tive to ease the ten­sion in the John John com­mu­ni­ty, al­so aimed at bring­ing back the love and com­fort, is well on the way.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – While ac­knowl­edg­ing his team’s strength in chas­ing down to­tals, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has point­ed out that the re­gion­al side al­so needs to be able to win match­es when bat­ting first.

GEORGE­TOWN – Bar­ba­dos and An­tigua and Bar­bu­da topped their re­spec­tive groups to ad­vance to the sec­ond round of the FI­BA Amer­iCup 2029 Pre-Qual­i­fiers in Guyana on Sun­day.

DUBAI, UAE – Nathan Smith has been draft­ed in­to the Desert Vipers squad for the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League, re­plac­ing the with­drawn Kyle Jamieson.

GEORGE­TOWN – Left-arm spin­ner Jay­den Lennox’s maid­en five-wick­et haul led New Zealand to a tense five-wick­et vic­to­ry over the West In­dies in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al in Guyana on Mon­day.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Hard-hit­ting Guyanese bats­man Shim­ron Het­my­er has been added to the West In­dies’ squad for the first three One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODI) against New Zealand.