The low oil price is manageable in the short term; but the Gulf states must make big changes to face the future

Emmanuel Macedo Medreiros, of the International Council for Sports Security (ICSS) for Europe and Latin America, says governments, including Trinidad and Tobago, must set up the legislative framework to combat the corruption of sports, including through money-laundering, betting and tax evasion.

BRIAN LEWIS, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC), has made it clear that the TTOC will reserve the right to final selection for the TT team, for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August .

Basseterre, St. Kitts, 15 April, 2016: SKNOC President, Alphonso Bridgewater, has pledged his full support and commitment in becoming a signatory to the new Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA), following the lead of The Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) and the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC), both of whom have signed up to the Alliance as part of their efforts to improve sport integrity and governance.

Over half a century covering major international sport has been an exhilarating experience if not infrequently an exasperating one laced with more than a modicum of cynicism, particularly when the subject of drugs use rears its ugly head.

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; 13 April 2016: The Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) has announced that it has become a new member of the Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) and expressed its full support and commitment in the further development of the alliance.