BRIDGETOWN – Fol­low­ing their 3-2 One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries loss to New Zealand, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has ac­cept­ed that the re­gion­al side will have to go through the Qual­i­fiers to book their spot at the 2027 ICC Men’s Crick­et World Cup.

Keryn Burke and Asia-Marie Pouchet will lead a 40-mem­ber T&T swim­ming team named by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) for the 30th Good­will Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships which will take place at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre from Au­gust 14-16.

She­ma­iah Tou­s­saint net­ted eight goals to lead Cox Foot­ball Acad­e­my to a 9-2 spank­ing of Moru­ga Po­lice Youth Club in the South/Cen­tral Zone Sun­flower Group of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) G-League Un­der-15 Di­vi­sion on Sun­day, Ju­ly 19.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment said on Tues­day that the state fu­ner­al of Na­tion­al Hero and for­mer West In­dies crick­et cap­tain, Sir Garfield Sobers, will take place on Ju­ly 29, at the Kens­ing­ton Oval. The crick­et leg­end died last Fri­day at the age of 89.

LON­DON, Eng­land – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews top­scored for MI Lon­don Women, but her team still went down by sev­en wick­ets to Sun­ris­ers Leeds Women in the open­ing match of the Women’s Hun­dred on Tues­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – New Zealand’s left-arm spin­ner Jay­den Lennox pro­duced the 10th biggest haul by a spin­ner in a One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) bi­lat­er­al se­ries be­tween two in­ter­na­tion­al sides in their just con­clud­ed five-match se­ries against the West In­dies.

The Ox­ford Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary is an im­pres­sive col­lec­tion of words, but even if you stacked every vol­ume from floor to ceil­ing, it lacks the vo­cab­u­lary to prop­er­ly de­fine Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers.

BRIDGETOWN – Shim­ron Het­my­er and Sher­fane Ruther­ford pro­duced a mas­ter­class in pres­sure bat­ting, with both hit­ting half-cen­turies to help guide the West In­dies to a dra­mat­ic two-wick­et vic­to­ry over New Zealand in the fifth and fi­nal One Day In­ter­na­tion­al at Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos on Tues­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Pres­i­dent of the Ja­maica Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion (JFF), Michael Rick­etts strong­ly be­lieves the coun­try will be award­ed the rights to co-host the 2031 FI­FA Women’s World Cup.

T&T se­nior men’s foot­ball team coach Derek King and his team will know their 2026/2027 Con­ca­caf Na­tions League group op­po­nents Thurs­day (Ju­ly 23), when the draw for League A, B, and C of the com­pe­ti­tion is made.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua – The An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons have locked in their over­seas ar­se­nal for the 2026 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League, un­veil­ing a six-man con­tin­gent that mar­ries glob­al star pow­er with tac­ti­cal pre­ci­sion and ris­ing sub­con­ti­nen­tal flair.

Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (CANOC) pres­i­dent Kei­th Joseph, in his re­cent (17th Ju­ly 2026) pres­i­dent’s newslet­ter to CANOC mem­ber na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (NOCs), high­light­ed some per­ti­nent is­sues that will have a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on glob­al Olympic sport as we now know it. Here is the thing. For all the sur­face com­mer­cial suc­cess of glob­al sport. There is trou­ble brew­ing.