RUGBY FOOTBALL

Mr. Leslie Figaro stepped down as the President of the Trinidad & Tobago Rugby Football Union (TTRFU) at the Union’s Annual General Meeting on Monday, April 23, 2018. Mr. Figaro has been in the position for the past ten (10) years and saw rugby reach the pinnacle of sport administration in Trinidad & Tobago.

The 2018 RAN Men’s and Women’s Sevens will take place in Barbados over the weekend of September 22nd and 23rd, 2018. Holders Hill Polo ground in Holders Hill, St. James will be the venue for the annual international sevens tournament. For over a decade RAN has organized the sevens tournament to increase competition within the region and provide member unions a professional setting to showcase the sport’s rapid growth.

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2018, World Rugby is proud to announce the inaugural recipients of its Leadership Development Scholarships.

The Pepsi Hornets are the inaugural champs of the Hairoun Beer Seven’s rugby championships that concluded on Saturday at the Track and Field ground in the National Park.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) will open its 2018 Rugby season on Saturday March 24, with a Sevens tournament, featuring Trinidad and Tobago’s Harvard Rugby Club.

(CNN) It's not a nation normally associated with rugby, but then Jamaica wasn't known for bobsled before the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Shakera Robinson, who has battled and beat cancer, and has been a survivor for nine years made a remark on Sunday. She said, “Rugby is a tough sport and cancer is a tough sickness. We were even stronger to beat cancer, and it feels good.” Her words drew an applause from fellow cancer survivors around her.

T&T’s senior men’s team led by Joseph Quashie qualified for the Central American and Caribbean Sports Organisation (CACSO) Games following this weekend’s intense competition in the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens Tournament held over the weekend at Fronton Campo Mart in Mexico City, Mexico.

Jamaica and Mexico will compete at a Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament for the first time in the men’s and women’s competitions respectively after being crowned Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens champions.