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The region smiled last Saturday afternoon, as unfolding before their eyes - the West Indies’ destruction of England in the first test match in Jamai...

Bring out the pop corn, grab your favourite beverage, take a seat, turn on the google box, as it is show time folks, as another episode in the comedy ...

“Do not let your good be evilly spoken about”. This is a Biblical teaching that is not only profound, but one which cannot be disputed or found wa...

Last Tuesday, many persons the world over witnessed and celebrated the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.{{more}} ...

Not often do young sportsmen and women get the admiration of Vincentians, but the national Under-20 male Football Team did so over the last few days. ...

We cannot say for sure that 2008 was a bright year for Sports for us here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. For yet another year, our individual spor...

There is no doubt that St. Vincent and the Grenadines possesses a good stock of raw sporting talent. Natural athleticism and innate gifts abound in al...

It was a shameful display of “organization” (used here with some unwarranted dignity) by local Cricket authorities, the St. Vincent and the Grenad...

Everyone was bloated with excitement; the necessary sacrifices were made by sportsmen and women; the government added the needed finance to see the Ar...

In a blind man’s land, a one eye man is King. So true. In a time when West Indies Cricket is at its lowest, Captain Chris Gayle is having a field da...

It was a welcome relief last week to learn that there has been some efforts to resolve the impasse between the Ministries of Education and Sports. Lon...

The key to any form of recovery is making the first step. For years, the Sion Hill community was the beacon of sports, the epitome of excellence, when...

Yes, the region must still be smiling after the Stanford “Superstars” copped the very lucrative US$20 Million last week Saturday night. Understand...

The past Independence weekend once again brought into sharp focus the need for us to think seriously of developing major sporting events with regional...

A comment by a Customs Officer last week Friday night, October 17, at the ET Joshua Airport, that our Under-20 footballers were not deserving of VIP t...

It is certainly not a good feeling to be sick and tired of being sick and tired. For too long this column has had reasons to address the retarding and...

Strong communities often build a strong nation. This weakness, this missing link, may be just one of the causative agents of the downturn in both supp...

The present league Football season has put the current Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation in a tail spin, dazed in au...

If you are a Cricket fan, or a just a sports fan for that matter, and in need of a bellyful of laughter, just take a look at the happenings of Windwar...

The Vincentian leg of the launch, the trappings, the fanfare of what is really a Caricom initiative, Wellness Day, was generally a success. Those resp...

The launch of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation’s Youth Development Programme is a welcomed step, as this country seeks to recl...

In order to make an omelette, one has to break the eggs. And this is a must. The same applies to Sports, and for us here to excavate ourselves from th...

Last week, the region stopped, and by extension the world, to celebrate, recognise and pay homage to the Caribbean athletes, namely the Jamaicans, Usa...

Everyone at some time stops, reassesses, make changes, then moves on. Sporting associations, too, do so. But it is long overdue for the St. Vincent an...

All the long talk, ole talk, seminars, proposal of a cricket academy, Four year Strategic Plan, radio discussions, whining, you name it, as they relat...

The Carnival celebrations have come and gone. For some it was too short, while for others it should have never come. And, there are those who could no...

This country hosted its seventeenth One Day international Cricket match here at the picturesque Arnos Vale Playing Field, last week Tuesday, June 24. ...

A sigh of relief must have greeted the Lawn Tennis fraternity, for at last, some semblance of sanity is in sight for the sport, which, until recently,...

It is not often that I feel ashamed at a national effort. But last Sunday at the Arnos Vale Playing Field, the showing of our senior football team - V...

Vincy Heat faces its sternest test in its quest to advance to the next phase of the 2010 World Cup Qualifiers. Never before in four previous journeys ...

The chickens are slowly but surely coming home to roost as it relates to the misgivings, concerns, and the hues and cries over the construction of the...

I watched recently with a sense of gratification the Milo Juvenile Athletics Championships at the Victoria Park. The zeal of the young athletes, their...

Laughter is definitely good medicine. This is a fact. Anyone who is stressed and needs immediate therapy can just take a look at some of the sporting ...

The humiliating spectacle of a sportsman being “panned” for faux pas on the field of play is a thing of the past. In those days, every conceivable...

It is almost inevitable that the sporting facilities available here to Vincentians be the focus of attention by those who use them. Not so much for th...

Enter Australian television tycoon Kerry Packer in the late 1970’s. This seemed to have opened up the financial floodgates for some cricketers, who ...

Cover your noses and mouths; otherwise your internal organs will be contaminated by the stench emanating from the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Tenni...

The recent marketing row over the sponsorship of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association’s premier competition, the national club net...

It is universally accepted, undeniable and principled that change is constant. However, when this inevitability occurs, there is always a debate, for ...

A serious bout of SARS has hit the local sporting community. First it was endemic, but of late it is fast becoming an epidemic. The symptoms of this m...

For some time now, the concept of “Sports Tourism” has been bandied about by many industry stakeholders. The terminology sounds good to the ears a...

Do you know that this country’s national cricket competition has begun? Yes, it has. It is from this competition that St. Vincent and the Grenadines...

The Schools Athletics season is well and truly on. Many schools have staged their meets, with several from both the secondary and primary levels windi...

last weekend, there were two sporting events that grabbed the attention of many. One played out regionally, but with an international appeal- the fina...

A new executive to lead the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association is now in place. The Executive was elected from among those present at ...

Several attempts at putting a dent on the rising incidence of crime here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines,have been made. Peace Marches, Seminars on ...

A warm Vincentian welcome is extended to this country’s new Technical Director/Head Coach of the nation’s most popular sport, football, Stewart Jo...

The cry is loud for coaches to come forward to the aid of several sporting disciplines here, but they are not paying mind to the wailing. On bended kn...

Who would have thought that Netball, a sport that once brought national glory and regional recognition, could have plummeted to a level that is almost...

Every day, we keep harping about why this country is not producing more well rounded athletes and more able bodied teenagers, with any degree of frequ...

It has been just over two and a half months since the new Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation was voted into office. F...

It’s once again the festive season. And, as Vincentians, “We love we Christmas, we love it bad”. And involving in the excesses is usually the ru...

When selectors Gordon Greenidge, Clyde Butts and Andy Roberts went to shop for the West Indies team to tour South Africa, they ended up like “Ole Mo...

The efforts of the Department of Physical Education and Sports and the authorities at her Majesty’s Prisons to have a series of sporting activities ...

The decision by the Marriaqua Sports Association (MSA) to revert this year to the old ways of its presentation ceremony can only be described as a bac...

The fight for turf between the persons charged with promoting Physical Education in the Ministry of Education and those in the Ministry of Sports has ...

There is always an ounce of truth, in any pound of rumour. Since the October 20 elections of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation, t...

Cricket, the game that distinguished the region as a world power during the latter part of the 70’s through to the early 90’s, but which has since...

The massive turn out, the interest and the participation of so many persons last Saturday at the Annual General Meeting of the St. Vincent and the Gre...

The upcoming elections for a new Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation has boiled down to a presidential race. At the ce...

At every opportunity, persons associated with the sport of football have been clamouring for a “home for football’, and rightly so. Without any do...

St. Vincent and the Grenadines is never short of exciting sporting events and issues, and there is always intrigue that grabs our attention. Over the ...

The recent 20/20 cricket world championship, staged in South Africa, and which ended last Monday, must have made the purists of the sport cringe in di...

The tenure of Zoran Vranes as Technical Director of this country’s football “programme” will soon come to an end. In some quarters, it will be g...

The national sporting association or federation which is without any internal problems let them cast the first stone. None can. Each has issues, from ...

There was an All Fools Day prank practised years ago called “Send the fool a little further.” Many persons got pleasure and a kick out of getting ...

When the 2007 National Calypso Monarch Kenneth “Vibrating Scakes” Alleyne penned his song “Bridges”, he was both prophetic and reflective, as ...

Each year this country goes through the motion of participating in the Windward Islands School Games. Occupation of the last place has been enjoyed th...

It is a known fact that elections for a new executive for the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation are just around the corner. Evidence ...

We are into the long August vacation and there is no shortage of sporting clinics, camps, workshops, all geared towards keeping students meaningfully ...

There is always a hype and euphoria following the successes of national teams on regional and international assignments. Plans, proposals and projecti...

Our official Carnival festivities may be over but this country remains in a state of permanent celebration. The Cricket World Cup Local Organising Com...

My Queen’s English dictionary defines hypocrisy as “Falsely pretending to possess virtues, beliefs etc”. Simply put it is an act of deceit. Does...

Carnival is the air and its infections will surely get many with its promises of a good time. Our sportsmen and women get no exemptions as they too do...

A strong unwanted wind is blowing across this country’s sporting disciplines. With it brings nonchalance, indifference and malaise. No fervour nor c...

A story often has three sides, your side, my side and occasionally the truth. Sadly the latter which is the most important is rare. The admission of g...

Change is inevitable and constant, but the more we procrastinate, the more old habits become embedded and form part of our psyche, then that change is...

It may seem like flogging a dead horse, but the need for the freeing up of more of the sporting facilities here increases with greater urgency everyda...

For many years there has been a clamouring for St. Vincent and the Grenadines to have some semblance of a sports culture. But as time goes placidly by...

All across this country there is a bellowing cry for more committed sports administrators. Like the Marines we need “a few good men”, as several o...

The recent spate in gun related crimes, the increase in the incidence of violence and the general degradation in social standards are sending streaks ...

A FEW YEARS AGO being slim and trim was the in thing. A popular saying then was "Hollywood calls for slim girls", But today being "round like an Engli...

An era of West Indies greatness has ended. Brian Charles Lara, the man from Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago, but the Caribbean authority on world cric...

The Arnos Vale, Sion Hill and Stubbs Playing Fields are blessed with upgraded facilities. These three venues were the centre pieces of the warm up mat...