Category Archives: Sports

Virtual badminton sports academy launched

A Badminton Sports Academy was launched yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Charles Ramson Jr. labeled the occasion as ‘historic’. The virtual Sports Academy which is the brainchild of the Sports Minister, will initially focus on the 12 core sports – cricket, football, athletics, basketball, table tennis, […]

Calypso Girls to know Commonwealth Games’ fate on January 31

Sports Jonathan Ramnanansingh 2 Hrs Ago In this Oct 17, 2021 file photo, TT’s women’s netballers (in red) face their Caribbean rivals Jamaica during the Magaret Beckford netball series, in Kingston, Jamaica. – TRINIDAD and Tobago’s participation in netball at the Commonwealth Games in July will be confirmed on January 31. If the Calypso Girls […]

CWI director takes aim at Skerritt administration

(CMC) – Calvin Hope, the high-ranking Barbados Cricket Association official who last year mounted a failed bid for the vice-presidency of Cricket West Indies, has revisited the three-year-old axing of head coach Richard Pybus as part of his criticism of the Ricky Skerritt administration. The decision to fire Englishman Pybus, Hope told Starcom Radio’s Mason […]

Paralympic champ Akeem Stewart bemoans ‘tough’ 2021

Tobago Jelani Beckles 20 Hrs Ago Akeem Stewart competes in the discus event at an NAAA Development Meet at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet. – DAVID REID NATIONAL athlete Akeem Stewart described 2021 as the toughest year of his track and field career as a lack of sporting events meant he had to dig […]

Some suggested New Year’s resolutions for Cricket West Indies!

As it enters 2022, the Ricky Skerritt–led Cricket West Indies (CWI) should be seeking to have a much improved year from the annus horribilis that its 2021 can now only be best described as having been. Towards that end here are our top 15 suggestions for resolutions CWI should now be seeking to fulfill during […]

15 teams named for Tiger Tanks U-20 football tourney

Sports Newsday Reporter 13 Hrs Ago Colin Wharfe – THE STEERING committee of the Tiger Tanks Under-20 Invitational football tournament has named 15 teams for the inaugural event slated to get underway, once contact sports is given the green light by the government. The committee is chaired by Colin Wharfe and includes Richard Piper and […]