Caribbean

US-based businessman Jignesh Pandya has struck a deal to acquire the St Lucia Zouks cricket franchise, which plays in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Twenty20 competition.

Gordon Derrick has been re-elected as president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) after seeing off the claims of two rival candidates.

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football (Concacaf) has lured experienced sports executive Philippe Moggio to serve as the governing body’s new general secretary.

The national governing bodies of rugby league in Canada, Jamaica and the United States have joined together to launch a new event as part of a wider effort to support the global development of the sport.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is reportedly considering adding extra editions of its World Twenty20 national team tournament in 2018 and 2022 as a means to tap into the rapidly developing format of the sport.

Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt has signed an endorsement deal with soon-to-be-launched sports insole brand Enertor.

Gordon Derrick of Antigua has been cut from the list of candidates to become the next president of Concacaf, football’s governing body in North and Central America and the Caribbean, after failing to pass a background integrity check.

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Dave Cameron has said the governing body will meet with its players in June in a bid to resolve the long-running financial dispute between the two parties.

Sprint superstar Usain Bolt has agreed an endorsement deal with All Nippon Airways, the official airline of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has confirmed it will host games in the US during its 2016 edition, while the Twenty20 cricket tournament’s defending champion has also announcing it has rebranded.

Gordon Derrick, president of the Caribbean Football Union, and Canadian Soccer Association president, Victor Montagliani, have confirmed that they will run to become the next leader of the troubled Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) regional governing body.

The Bahamas and Northern Ireland have been awarded hosting rights to the Commonwealth Youth Games multi-sport events in 2017 and 2021 respectively.

The West Indies Cricket Board has hit out at the recommendations of a reform report put together by Caricom, branding a proposal from the inter-governmental Caribbean Community and Common Market organisation for the WICB to dissolve as an “unnecessary and intrusive demand”.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is poised to resume bilateral ties with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) following a year-long dispute between the two organisations that was sparked by the West Indies abandoning their 2014 tour of India.

The Bahamas and Northern Ireland have been lined up to host the 2017 and 2021 editions of the Commonwealth Youth Games respectively, after the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) said the two nations have each formally expressed their interest in the multi-sport events.

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, a leading member of the reform committee at football’s global governing body Fifa, has suggested that up to 40 per cent of the reform proposals tabled by ethics and compliance chief Domenico Scala could be rejected.