Next year's Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach Games has been postponed until 2023 because of the coronavirus pandemic, insidethegames can reveal.

Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Shamfa Cudjoe, presented rewards to 16 national athletes in the amount of $915,625 at the Ministry’s Head Office in St Clair this week.

The father of Malcolm Aberdeen says while he is saddened by his son’s death, he felt his son was intent on dying, as he refused to give up the criminal way of life. Aberdeen, 20, died in a shootout with police in Sangre Grande early on Sunday, after spending a month on the run for a stabbing and robbery.

“Does the exceptional cause the extraordinary? The #WhiteCard campaign initiated by Peace and Sport on April6, the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, took place in exceptional circumstances this year.

Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) President Brian Lewis believes that esports will become a popular norm due to the halting of live sport during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sport has been put on hold due to the crisis, with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics moved back to 2021.

“[Usain] Bolt was subjected to the exact same stringent testing measures by WADA, IOC and JADO as other international athletes.