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ST VINCENT AND THE Grenadines boasts close to one hundred sporting facilities, inclusive of playing fields and hard courts. These facilities are strew...

St Vincent and the Grenadines’ retention of the ECCB/ OECS International Netball Series title in Grenada, confirms the country’s status as the sub reg...

WILL IT BE ANOTHER FLIP of the calendar and things will remain the same sporting wise for the 20252026 academic year? Hopefully not, as the status quo...

VINCENTIAN MIDDLE- DISTANCE athlete, Handal Roban, continues to be a shining example of the virtues of arduous and demanding work coupled with dedicat...

Is that battle cry of “Rally Round the West Indies” still have any significance to Caribbean people in 2025? Yes, the chant has been the anthem for th...

Yes, St Vincent and the Grenadines has once again placed last in the Canadian Bank Note (CBN) Winlott Inc. Windward Islands Schools’ Games (WISG). Whe...

This weekend, St Vincent and the Grenadines will be revving up its Track and Field engine with the staging of the much-anticipated Wendell Hercules Na...

The recent national Carnival celebrations here in St Vincent and the Grenadines underscored the way sports is viewed by some members of the corporate ...

Earlier this year, April 7, to be exact, marked fifty years since the formation of the Sion Hill Sports Club, which later transitioned into the Sion H...

This column cannot help but to again laud the efforts of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College’s Sports Programme that gives rise to the...

Yes, St Vincent and the Grenadines in a few weeks, will be welcoming over two hundred athletes and officials, from neighbouring Saint Lucia, Dominica,...

Yes, the World Cup campaign for the St Vincent and the Grenadines senior men’s Football team- Vincy Heat is over. This, as the team failed to obtain t...

There seems to be an emerging issue brewing- namely, in Track and Field, inflaming a duel between schools and clubs. At the heart of the matter is the...

The undertaking by the Hope International Club to engage the members of the Liberty Lodge Boys Training Centre in a 10 -week training programme at the...

IT IS NO empty pronouncement that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks; neither are the notions that the youths are the future, or the children of t...

An incisive look at sports administration here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, points heavily to the need for some accountability for those elected ...

The recent announcement by St Vincent and the Grenadines’ current most recognized Trak and Field female athlete, Shafiqua Maloney that she has signed ...

THIS COLUMN has over time, lamented the absence of a defining sports culture for St Vincent and the Grenadines. In fact, this exposition dare say that...

The 2025 Carifta Games, as well as Carifta Aquatics Championships have ended after three and five days of competition in Trinidad and Tobago, when lum...

WE KNOW, UNDERSTAND and accept that changes are inevitable. However this may be the case, in some instances, a paradigm shift is not always the best. ...

A stitch in time saves nine, has always been proverb that has made sense in its literal as well as its figurative meaning. Therefore, making preparati...

The official 2025 Schools’ Track and Field season is done and dusted. Winners, and top individual performers were decided in both the various Inter-ho...

St Vincent and the Grenadines’ draw with Jamaica last Friday, March 21, 2025, at the Arnos Vale Playing Field, in the first leg of the Concacaf Gold C...

It is commonplace to hear the sayings: You are as young as you feel, or age is just a number. These popular quotes often act as motivation against cri...

What is the exact state of the administration of Cricket here in St Vincent and the Grenadines? The progression in lack of vibrancy, seemingly institu...

The decision by the sponsors of the inaugural Bickles All Leeward Schools’ Relay Classics to provide a small monetary award to the first, second and t...

It is becoming more and more aggravating relative to the state of lights currently at the Victoria Park. This, as the continuous deterioration has fal...

When the St Vincent and the Grenadines Tennis Association hosts it general meeting tomorrow, Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Murray Heights Hotel’s...

The sporting landscape the world over is ever- changing and will be the case until eternity. This is a fact of life that we have to accept and embrace...

There should always be that grab by national sporting associations/ unions and federations to get hold of their athletes at the earliest age possible....

What is done is done; what is past is past. Those are actualities that we have to quickly get the grip and accept as realities of life. Therefore, it ...

As we put a wrap on 2024, it has been another year of ups and downs for St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), in all spheres of life. We have grappled ...

It is bone chilling to hear some of the anomalies emanating from our schools, relative to many of our budding sportsmen and women. Specifically, the s...

Breaking News: “In an apparent reprisal, three men are shot dead in capital, Kingstown”. At the same time, at the Diamond Track Facility, an athlete b...

It is good to see that there continues to be changes in the way things are done in sports, especially at the schools’ level. Whilst everything is not ...

St Vincent and the Grenadines has been matched versus the Caribbean’s top ranked team on the FIFA list, Jamaica, in the Concacaf Gold Cup preliminarie...

It was indeed a big deal for St Vincent and the Grenadines, when it hosted the 32nd edition of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States’ Swimming ...

There was some debate, discussion, and views expressed relative to the naming of the four sports ambassadors at the 2024 Independence Parade at the Vi...

Do you know that St Vincent and the Grenadines is missing out on a lot of events, simply because we do not possess an indoor sporting facility? Well, ...

There was much to be made about the fracas that occurred on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at the Chili Playing Field, Georgetown, following a football ma...

STVINCENT AND THE Grenadines recorded it biggest win in its footballing history, when last Sunday, October 13, 2024, the Senior Men’s National Team, V...

It is highly unkind to think that in 2024 the countries contesting the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) International Invitational Netball Series...

What more can we say about the present state of affairs relative to sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Up front, it is not all bad, likewis...

The matter of mental health among our sportsmen and sportswomen is gaining greater significance all round. This, as the unfolding of issues relative t...

Like sweet music to the ear and sweet -smelling fragrance to the nose, some developments in recent times have brought optimism and answered some long ...

The fears of Football not being played at the Arnos Vale Playing Field, have been allayed. This was formally announced at a ceremony last Monday night...

AS WE ARE INTO the early stages of the 20242025 academic year, here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), things have been off to a rocky commenceme...

As was announced formally last week, Ezra Hendrickson has been appointed head coach of the Senior Men’s St Vincent and the Grenadines Football team, c...

St Vincent and the Grenadines is by no means a go to sports destination, nor do we have an embedded Sports Tourism policy or sports culture. Similarly...

This year’s usual July/ August school vacation can only be deemed an exceptional one, relative to sports. In an unprecedented way, there is no shortag...

STVINCENT ANDTHE Grenadines was given a treat as the four representatives at the 2024 Paris Olympics, gave the Vincentian public much to share about. ...

It is often said that age is just a number. However, here in St Vincent and the Grenadines this is not the case, as many of our sportsmen and sports w...

ST VINCENT and the Grenadines’ participation at the 2024 Paris Olympics, July 26 to August 11, in France, is a milestone. The landmark is the tenth oc...

IT IS QUITE UNFORTUNATE that the Canadian Bank Note/ Winlott Inc. Windward Islands Schools Games(WISG), that were set to be hosted here in St Vincent ...

With baby steps and continued accomplishments, the young Squash players of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), are carving out their names on the reg...

The organisers of the annual St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College Sports Awards programme continue not only to raise the bar, but get bette...

St Vincent and the Grenadines has acquitted itself well during the hosting of the five matches in the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. The refurbished, u...

The 2024 Bank of SVG/Flow National Netball Tournament, must be hailed as one of the better administrated and competitive ones for a few years now, bar...

Two editions ago, this column’s exposition focused on the realities of St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Senior Men’s Football team, Vincy Heat’s partici...

In just about one week, Arnos Vale Playing Field, and by extension St Vincent and the Grenadines will enter a new era in its sporting history with the...

St Vincent and the Grenadines’ senior men’s Football Team, Vincy Heat, will go into their Concacaf World Cup sojourn next week June 5, 2024, in the fi...

Straight up, has the National Sports Council(NSC) done away with the National Sports Awards? Is it still relevant to the grander scheme of things? Has...

Death has stung the sporting landscape of St Vincent and the Grenadines again. This as last Tuesday, May 14, 2024, news broke that Dyke Cato, former n...

As the Caribbean region prepares to host the biggest ICC Men’s T/20 Cricket Tournament from June 1 to 29, 2024, the possible threats of terrorism have...

The decision by the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee to commission its Sport Information Centre and Museum, must be cr...

St Vincent and the Grenadines has to begin to think big as it relates to the country’s capacity to host fairly large sporting events. This need for a ...

Like any good business practice, the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association, should shut up shop, and boldly declare: “ Cl...

Just like digging a grave, whereby it starts from the top, it is the same approach that the powers that be approach Physical Education in the nation’s...

Over the Easter weekend, St Vincent and the Grenadines for another year, competed at two regional Carifta events: The 51st Carifta Games at the Kirani...

It is the candid view of 19 affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) that Otashie Spring is the fittest person to l...

In the March 8, 2024, edition of Searchlight, this column had an exposition on crafting a way to fund/ finance promising sportsmen and sportswomen wit...

The Diamond Track Facility opened November 2020, was a delivery on a promise by the sitting government of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Indeed, it wa...

The Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves on SportsMax Zone Programme, February 28, 2024, pronounced that there needs to...

The sport of Track and Field here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, for the past three weeks, has been buzzing. This, as the schools’ calendar unfolds...

Like an unforgotten story, nothing is being said about St Vincent and the Grenadines hosting the 2024 Canadian Bank Note/ Winlott Inc. Windward Island...

The prolonged electoral process of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) continues to open up cracks within the system. Most r...

For the second week in succession, this column has been forced into again highlighting the backward and counterproductive decision made by the relevan...

The pending decision by the relevant government authorities to close the Diamond Track Facility during the month of February, indeed had to be one tha...

The St Vincent and the Grenadines Volleyball Association (SVGVA) has once again been thrown into a state of administration agitation. Unfortunately, i...

Football in St Vincent and the Grenadines will have its day of reckoning just over a week from now, when affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadin...

As St Vincent and the Grenadines strives for better standards all round, greater economic growth and development and a safer and more peaceful society...

Each year at this time, early January, as a tradition persons the world over make promises, commitments and New Year’s resolutions. These well intende...

It is highly commendable of the Shane Cadogan-led Athlete in Action, a non- governmental organisation, that they are establishing a platform for Vince...

St Vincent and the Grenadines, like other countries around the world that celebrate Christmas, will be a hive of activity for the next few days, as th...