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June 19, 2009
There is a growing lack of enthusiasm towards participation in sports among persons who either have the ability or the opportunity. No more is partici...
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June 12, 2009
It seems that many persons here have perfected their timing, as they save their presence, their input, their praise or criticisms for only the big occ...
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June 5, 2009
It has been almost a year since this countryâs senior Football team, Vincy Heat, was involved in a full international, or any sort of activity for t...
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May 29, 2009
The more things change, the more they remain the same. The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association (SVGNA) and the St. Vincent and the Gren...
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May 22, 2009
The residents, the community leaders, and all well wishers of the Redemption Sharpes area have successfully navigated another rung and have mounted an...
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May 15, 2009
The two semi finals in Europeâs Champions League last week brought into focus how much Vincentians love Football. The fact that there is ready acces...
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May 8, 2009
I am certain that I am hearing a tinkling somewhere, from some persons in the Windwards, that their senior team is âgetting thereâ. The whispering...
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April 30, 2009
An increasing level of contempt, disdain, disrespect and utter disregard for the sporting public of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is being delivered ...
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April 24, 2009
The National Sports Awards, recognizing the achievements of those who in one way or the other contribute to sports here in St. Vincent and the Grenadi...
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April 17, 2009
The final morsel of pride to which this countryâs Cricket fraternity was clinging, the Under-19 Windwards title, has been taken from its grasp. As i...
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April 9, 2009
The 2009 Inter Secondary Schoolsâ Athletics Meet has come and gone. There was not any one who lit up the track, there were no outstanding performanc...
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April 3, 2009
Could anyone really tell me what was the thinking of the Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association, when those gentlemen cho...
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March 27, 2009
St. Vincent and the Grenadines will host the 2009 Windward Island Schools Games. The annual multi-sport event, which is held among the four islands: D...
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March 20, 2009
The names given to some of the sporting teams here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are enough to make one sick. It hurts the ear and indeed sometime...
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March 13, 2009
That inimitable voice of Larry Bascombe will be heard no more. Many knew him; some only heard him on radio or saw his photo in the newspaper or on the...
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March 6, 2009
News broke last week that the Local Organising Committee (LOC), or better still the Longest Organising Committee, has been officially dissolved. It is...
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February 27, 2009
Sports Minister Mike Browne, in recent times, hardly gives a speech without mentioning âthe routinisation of sportsâ in St. Vincent and the Grenad...
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February 20, 2009
Everything these days is about stimulus; it is about belt tightening, and about bail outs, as the world grapples with a worsening financial crisis. Ri...
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February 13, 2009
The region smiled last Saturday afternoon, as unfolding before their eyes - the West Indiesâ destruction of England in the first test match in Jamai...
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February 6, 2009
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 ...
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January 30, 2009
âDo not let your good be evilly spoken aboutâ. This is a Biblical teaching that is not only profound, but one which cannot be disputed or found wa...
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January 23, 2009
Last Tuesday, many persons the world over witnessed and celebrated the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.{{more}} ...
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January 16, 2009
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. ...
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January 9, 2009
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...
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January 2, 2009
The move by the CEO of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control, Lennox John, with support from the respective individual associations, to put so...
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December 23, 2008
It is this time of year once again when love fills the air, this joyous occasion when a large part of the Christian population celebrates the Birth of...
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December 19, 2008
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...
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December 12, 2008
It was a shameful display of âorganizationâ (used here with some unwarranted dignity) by local Cricket authorities, the St. Vincent and the Grenad...
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December 5, 2008
Everyone was bloated with excitement; the necessary sacrifices were made by sportsmen and women; the government added the needed finance to see the Ar...
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November 28, 2008
In a blind manâs 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...
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November 21, 2008
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...
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November 14, 2008
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...
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November 7, 2008
Yes, the region must still be smiling after the Stanford âSuperstarsâ copped the very lucrative US$20 Million last week Saturday night. Understand...
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October 31, 2008
The past Independence weekend once again brought into sharp focus the need for us to think seriously of developing major sporting events with regional...
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October 24, 2008
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...
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October 17, 2008
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...
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October 10, 2008
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...
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October 3, 2008
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...
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September 26, 2008
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...
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September 19, 2008
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...
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September 12, 2008
The launch of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federationâs Youth Development Programme is a welcomed step, as this country seeks to recl...
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September 5, 2008
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...
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August 29, 2008
Last week, the region stopped, and by extension the world, to celebrate, recognise and pay homage to the Caribbean athletes, namely the Jamaicans, Usa...
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August 22, 2008
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...
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August 15, 2008
Over indulgence in anything is bad, so when the excesses in any form are hindrances, then they must be got rid of. It can be concluded that one of the...
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August 8, 2008
Sale! Sale! Sale! A Massive Clearance Sale has been called on the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). Come get anything, any tournament, offers at rock ...
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July 31, 2008
Apply the brakes, form a barricade of solutions, do anything to stop the freefall that sports in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is taking. Urgent is t...
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July 25, 2008
A few issues ago, February 15, 2008, to be exact, this column called for a thrust towards using sports as a combative method for checking the criminal...
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July 18, 2008
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...
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July 11, 2008
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...
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July 4, 2008
This country hosted its seventeenth One Day international Cricket match here at the picturesque Arnos Vale Playing Field, last week Tuesday, June 24. ...
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June 27, 2008
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,...
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June 20, 2008
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...
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June 13, 2008
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 ...
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June 6, 2008
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...
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May 30, 2008
I watched recently with a sense of gratification the Milo Juvenile Athletics Championships at the Victoria Park. The zeal of the young athletes, their...
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May 23, 2008
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 ...
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May 16, 2008
The humiliating spectacle of a sportsman being âpannedâ for faux pas on the field of play is a thing of the past. In those days, every conceivable...
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May 9, 2008
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...
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April 25, 2008
Enter Australian television tycoon Kerry Packer in the late 1970âs. This seemed to have opened up the financial floodgates for some cricketers, who ...
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April 18, 2008
Cover your noses and mouths; otherwise your internal organs will be contaminated by the stench emanating from the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Tenni...
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April 11, 2008
The recent marketing row over the sponsorship of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Associationâs premier competition, the national club net...
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April 4, 2008
It is universally accepted, undeniable and principled that change is constant. However, when this inevitability occurs, there is always a debate, for ...
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March 28, 2008
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...
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March 20, 2008
For some time now, the concept of âSports Tourismâ has been bandied about by many industry stakeholders. The terminology sounds good to the ears a...
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March 13, 2008
Do you know that this countryâs national cricket competition has begun? Yes, it has. It is from this competition that St. Vincent and the Grenadines...
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March 7, 2008
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...
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February 29, 2008
last weekend, there were two sporting events that grabbed the attention of many. One played out regionally, but with an international appeal- the fina...
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February 22, 2008
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 ...
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February 15, 2008
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 ...
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February 8, 2008
A warm Vincentian welcome is extended to this countryâs new Technical Director/Head Coach of the nationâs most popular sport, football, Stewart Jo...
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February 1, 2008
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...
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January 18, 2008
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...
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January 11, 2008
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...
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January 4, 2008
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...
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December 21, 2007
Itâs once again the festive season. And, as Vincentians, âWe love we Christmas, we love it badâ. And involving in the excesses is usually the ru...
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December 14, 2007
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 âOle Mo...
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December 7, 2007
The efforts of the Department of Physical Education and Sports and the authorities at her Majestyâs Prisons to have a series of sporting activities ...
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November 30, 2007
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...
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November 23, 2007
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 ...
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November 16, 2007
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...
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November 9, 2007
Cricket, the game that distinguished the region as a world power during the latter part of the 70âs through to the early 90âs, but which has since...
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October 26, 2007
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...
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October 19, 2007
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...
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October 12, 2007
At every opportunity, persons associated with the sport of football have been clamouring for a âhome for footballâ, and rightly so. Without any do...
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October 5, 2007
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 ...
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September 28, 2007
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...
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September 21, 2007
The tenure of Zoran Vranes as Technical Director of this countryâs football âprogrammeâ will soon come to an end. In some quarters, it will be g...
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September 7, 2007
The national sporting association or federation which is without any internal problems let them cast the first stone. None can. Each has issues, from ...
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August 31, 2007
There was an All Fools Day prank practised years ago called âSend the fool a little further.â Many persons got pleasure and a kick out of getting ...
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THE ASHLEY LASHLEY Foundation, with support from the United States Government, is implementing a local-level project entitled “Community-Driven Strate...
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September 12, 2025
NON- NATIONALS ARE being hired to fill several jobs in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) simply because locals did not have the required skill sets....
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September 12, 2025
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Montgomery Daniel has sought to clear around rumours that have been circulating relating to his health. Speaking on NBC radio on...
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September 12, 2025
The GOVERNMENT of St Vincent and the Grenadines is set to sign agreements for tourism investment of $1.3 billion on mainland St.Vincent. On Monday, Se...
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A BARROUALLIE MAN will be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to being in illegal possession of a firearm and eight rounds of ammunition. Demron...
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