Jamaica faces arch rivals Trinidad and Tobago once more in a round four match of the Carib Beer Series. Jamaica seeks not only to defend its perfect record accumulated at home in the series but seeks vindication from a humiliating 9 wicket loss in the Stanford series to T&T. Read more here.

It was a sad state of affairs for the Guineans after they were sent packing in a six wicket defeat to the young West Indies team. Both teams were contending for a place in the Plate Final of the ICC Youth World Cup. Chasing a modest target of 90 runs for victory, the West Indians met that target with 207 balls to spare. Of note was Kieran Powell’s knock of 37 where he was scoring at a run a ball rate. The West Indians will now face India int he final. Read more about that here.

Set a measly 91 to win after a horrible batting display by Jamaica and some brilliant bowling, Trinidad raced to 94/1 in 9.2 overs. Lendl Simmons contributed 26 and W. Perkins made 50 runs to cement the new Caribbean champions position. Read more about the effort here.

After an impassioned plea by its members to the Caribbean Netball Association and the Americas Federation of Netball Association, Guyana is finally getting some much needed assistance to get their program back on track. Annette Becket, veteran Barbadian netball administrator, is on her way back from a trip to Guyana in an effort to assess the state of affairs in that country re netball. Speaking with the Barbados Advocate, she said the month long trip allowed her to realize certain key deficiencies within the program and ways and means of getting the program back on the right track. In a quote from her:

“The sport was, at that point, in a fledgling stage, so while starting from scratch was not necessary, items like the GNAs constitution and their strategic plan needed to be reworked.”

As next steps Ms. Beckett stated that apart from those fundamental changes in organization, the GNA will attempt to organize tours of other Caribbean territories so as to gain greatly needed competition-level experience.