This tournament is the brainchild of a few rugby enthusiasts who perceived the need to boost local rugby in Trinidad & Tobago. It was felt that there was no better way of doing this than by staging a seven's tournament involving the widest participation from both local and foreign clubs.

In 1986, the general manager of LIAT (a regional domestic airline), offered to sponsor a Caribbean Tournament by way of subsidized fares. The Trinidad Enthusiasts RFC took up the challenge, further sponsored the airfares and agreed to origanise a Seven-A-Side Tournament.

In 1987, the first LIAT Sevens was contested by local Trinidad clubs and teams from four other Caribbean islands. Since then the tournament has been played annually over the first weekend in December with teams coming from progressively further afield.

The Reivers, a representative team from the Borders of Scotland, started the influx of "foreign" teams in 1989 and have been attending ever since, even in recent years when the demands of the new "professional" game have made team selection anything but an easy task.

The Scots were followed by teams from Venezuela, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Japan, as well as from the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, St. Lucia, Barbados, Guyana, Martinique, Guadeloupe and the Dominican Republic.

Arguably the strongest team to compete in the tournament so far has been the Africanadans (a combination of Canadian Internationals and South African Provincial players) who won in 1996.

Much of the added interest as the years progress is due in no small part to the considerable promotional assistance being given by TIDCO (the Tourism Industrial Development Company).

The original aims of the tournament, have not and will not change. They are to encourage as high a standard of rugby as possible, with participation from as far afield as possible without ever forgetting that the game should be played for fun and enjoyment. The climate, culture and very nature of the people of Trinidad & Tobago lend themselves perfectly to the achievement of these objectives.

The organiser's of the tournament, the Trinidad Enthusiasts RFC, are a long standing over-35 team with a fairly flexible constitution enshrining the main aims of fostering rugby in Trinidad & Tobago as well as the wider Caribbean by making regular overseas tours. Over the past fifteen years, most of South America has been covered, as have New York, Toronto, Ireland, Cuba, and all of the rugby playing islands of the Caribbean.

List of Participants since 1987

1. Aesculpians RFC (England)
2. Africanada (Canada/South Africa)
3. Anaucos (Venezuela)
4. Arlequines (Venezuela)
5. Anti-Assassins (England)
6. Atlantis (USA)
7. Australian Legends
8. Bank of Irelan RFC
9. Bahamas RFU
10. Barbados Scorpions
11. Barbados RFC
12. Barbados RFU
13. Barbados Renegades
14. Bermuda Barbarians RFC
15. Bermuda Irish Rugby Club
16. Bermuda RFC
17. Bogota Barbarians (Colombia)
18. Border Reivers (Scotland)
19. British Virgin Islands RFC
20. Boisripeaux Rugby Club (Guadeloupe)
21. Canadian Nomads RFC
22. Cayman Islands RFC
23. Caracas Exiles (Venezuela)
24. Caribs RFC (Trinidad)
25. Caracas Teachers (Venezuela)
26. CRUM (Venezuela)
27. Defence Force (Trinidad)
28. Dominican Republic
29. Dread Lions RFC (Japan)
30. Enthusiasts RFC (Trinidad)
31. Exiles RFC (Trinidad)
32. Falcons RFC (Trinidad)
33. Guadeluope RFU
34. Guyana RFU
35. Guyana Hornets
36. Guyana Defence Force
37. Golden Lion RFC
38. Guevaras RFC (Trinidad)
39. GF United RFC (Trinidad)
40. Jamaica RFU
41. Martinique RFU
42. New Orleans RFC (USA)
43. Northern RFC (Trinidad)
44. OMBAC (USA)
45. Osos (Venezuela)
46. Police RFC (Trinidad)
47. Rainbow RFC (Trinidad)
48. Roebucks RFC (Trinidad)
49. Royalians RFC (Trinidad)
50. Rugby Canada Maple Leafs
51. Rugby Club Bair Mahault (France)
52. Rugby Club Caracas (RCC)
53. Rugby Ecosse (Scotland)
54. St. Lucia RFU
55. Tamarac RFU (USA)
56. Turks and Caicos RFC
57. Trinidad and Tobago RFU
58. US Virgin Islands RFC
59. Ultima Thule (Shetland UK)
60. University of West Indies RFC (Trinidad)
61. UCV - Universidad Central de Venezuela
62. UCAB - Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Venezuela)
63. USB - Universidad Simon Bolivar (Venezuela)
64. Venezuela In Goal
65. Yamaha Caribs (Trinidad)