CAS­TRIES – With a four-mem­ber team slat­ed to com­pete at the up­com­ing ANOCES Un­der-23 3×3 Bas­ket­ball tour­na­ment, the Saint Lu­cia Bas­ket­ball Fed­er­a­tion (SLBF) said it has its eyes set on qual­i­fy­ing for the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games.

NEW­PORT, Wales – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) con­firmed that a 16-mem­ber West In­dies Women’s squad is in New­port, Wales, for a 10-day prepara­to­ry camp, which start­ed Thurs­day (May 14) and runs un­til May 23, as the Ma­roon War­riors in­ten­si­fy their build-up to the 2026 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Eng­land.

ST JOHN'S, An­tigua — The 2026 West In­dies Cham­pi­onship fi­nal is set. The teams have earned their spots but on­ly one will lift the tro­phy.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trinidad and To­ba­go trio Jay­den Seales, Amir Jan­goo and Khary Pierre are in­clud­ed in a 17-play­er Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) high-per­for­mance train­ing camp, spe­cial­ly geared to­wards prepar­ing the West In­dies for their up­com­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Sri Lan­ka next month.

GFM Cen­tral Sports York­shire de­liv­ered a com­mand­ing per­for­mance to de­feat Fi­al Un­der-19s by 65 runs on Day 5 of the Trinidad T20 Fes­ti­val at the Queen’s Park Oval on Wednes­day night.

The road to the 2026 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League of­fi­cial­ly be­gan this week as the sev­en fran­chis­es fi­nalised their lo­cal play­er ros­ters dur­ing the an­nu­al CPL draft.

We are with­in strik­ing dis­tance of World Cup 2026 now. And al­though my first World Cup was in 1966, six­ty years lat­er I am count­ing down the days to kick­off with the ea­ger an­tic­i­pa­tion of a child ex­pect­ing a long-await­ed gift. Some be­lieve the ex­pand­ed field will de­val­ue the tour­na­ment, but I dis­agree. Yes, as ever, FI­FA is sin­gle-mind­ed­ly chas­ing the mon­ey, but I be­lieve the ex­pan­sion presents an op­por­tu­ni­ty for less­er na­tions. Af­ter all, is that not what has hap­pened over time since the tour­na­ment be­gan? The in­au­gur­al World Cup of 1930 field­ed 13 teams. This num­ber grad­u­al­ly ex­pand­ed over the suc­ceed­ing years – 1934 (16 teams), 1982 (24 teams), 1998 (32 teams) and, of course, 2026 (48 teams). Sene­gal, the con­tro­ver­sial­ly de­throned African Foot­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion cham­pi­on, qual­i­fied for its first World Cup in 2002 be­cause of the ex­pand­ed field.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Diego Mar­tin West, Hans Des Vi­gnes, has called for the im­me­di­ate ap­point­ment of the board of di­rec­tors for the Prime Min­is­ter’s Sport and Cul­ture Fund, which op­er­ates un­der the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

DUBAI, UAE – USA wick­et­keep­er-bat­ter An­dries Gous be­lieves the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) is fast be­com­ing the crown jew­el of fran­chise crick­et, liken­ing it to the icon­ic Cham­pi­ons League of years past.

ST JOHN’S – Trinidad & To­ba­go Red Force’s spin duo of Khary Pierre and Bryan Charles de­liv­ered a mas­ter­class on the fi­nal day at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground in An­tigua on Wednes­day, bam­boo­zling Bar­ba­dos Pride to se­cure a re­sound­ing 140-run vic­to­ry in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship play­off.

T&T’s Dy­lan Carter con­tin­ued his prepa­ra­tions for the up­com­ing Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games with a com­fort­able win in the men’s 50m freestyle fi­nal at the Welling­ton Long Course Meet host­ed by Welling­ton Swim­ming and The Vil­lage of Welling­ton at the Welling­ton Aquat­ic Com­plex in Welling­ton, Flori­da, on Sat­ur­day, May 9.

For­mer na­tion­al Un­der-17 boys’ team coach Shawn Coop­er has failed in his bid to have his long-stand­ing pro­hi­bi­tion against coach­ing mi­nors lift­ed.