On Target
March 25, 2022
The fourth edition of the Dream 11 Vincy Premier League(VPL) has started, igniting immense interest. Apart from the prolonged desire for live sporting...
On Target
March 11, 2022
Sports the world over has suffered tremendously for the past two years, as the novel coronavirus has upended almost everything . The ripple effects of...
On Target
March 4, 2022
It must be indeed commendable that the hierarchy of the Windward Islands Cricket Board (WICB) has finally begun to sink their teeth into developing th...
On Target
February 25, 2022
The elation and swift response by Cricket West Indies (CWI) to the 17 West Indian cricketers who landed contracts with the Indian Premier League(IPL),...
On Target
February 18, 2022
It is becoming too bit of a norm for the sport of Volleyball to go through a prolonged period of administrative fallouts , only to get a revival of so...
On Target
February 11, 2022
It is indeed refreshing to know that the Ministry of Education and National Reconciliation has officially given permission for schools, both at the pr...
On Target
February 4, 2022
Many have been harping, and rightly so, about the many fall outs which the sporting community has suffered over the last two years. Lamentations have ...
On Target
January 28, 2022
When the various sporting disciplines here in St Vincent and the Grenadines are assessed, those which cut the cake are the ones which are able to bala...
On Target
January 21, 2022
The decision by the national sporting associations to meet last Saturday at the Hotel Alexandrina to have one voice as it pertains to discuss Covid pr...
On Target
January 14, 2022
The year 2021 has to be the most inactive for St Vincent and the Grenadines, sporting wise. This, as the year was more than eventful for all sectors. ...
On Target
January 7, 2022
It is all well for coaches of any sporting discipline to ensure that their charges are equipped with the skill sets needed for their respective activi...
On Target
December 31, 2021
Last year at this time many were hopeful that the coronavirus pandemic that halted sports the world over for the better part of 2020, would have eased...
On Target
December 23, 2021
On Target will divert this week from its series of call-outs of tardy national sporting associations. Instead, this week will bring into sharp focus o...
On Target
December 17, 2021
Off the bat, On Target wants to ascertain whether or not there still exists a national organisation to administer bodybuilding here in St Vincent and ...
On Target, Sports
December 10, 2021
On Target continues its look into those national sporting associations here in St Vincent and the Grenadines which have displayed a protracted toleran...
On Target
December 3, 2021
As promised last week, On Target announced that should nothing be done by some of those national sporting associations which are failing to get their ...
On Target
November 26, 2021
The continued lack of energy, interest and a protracted laissez faire approach by some of our national sporting associations here, are not the correct...
On Target
November 19, 2021
THE NEW EXECUTIVE of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee (SVGOC) will from the get go, put the administrative wheels in motion, as the...
On Target
November 12, 2021
The column is publicly apologizing to the rest of the world for the shambolic display of the senior men’s cricket team at the International Cricket Co...
On Target
November 5, 2021
One year ago, November 4, to be exact, St Vincent and the Grenadines ushered in a new era in sporting infrastructure, with the official opening ceremo...
On Target
October 29, 2021
Earlier this week, the news formally broke that the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) has made a purchase of five acres of pri...
On Target
October 22, 2021
WITHIN THE PAST three months or so, St Vincent and the Grenadines has been blessed with a renewed interest in two sporting disciplines and the entranc...
On Target
October 15, 2021
St Vincent and the Grenadines has not been producing the sporting talent that it ought to. Yes, there are pockets of talent in most sporting disciplin...
On Target
October 8, 2021
The decision by the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation to pull the female Under-17 team from the CONCACAF qualifiers t...
On Target
October 1, 2021
The recent announcement of the West Indies team for this month’s World T/20 in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, has opened up a can of worms. More s...
On Target
September 24, 2021
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ track and field programme is on to something good. This, with the export of several student-athletes, namely to schools...
On Target
September 17, 2021
OVER TIME, we have seen a steady decline in the appeal, attraction and zeal for cricket here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. The sport, for some rea...
On Target
September 10, 2021
IT WAS NOT only refreshing, but instructive, that current Minister of Education and National Reconciliation Curtis King, at a recent opening ceremony,...
On Target
September 3, 2021
THERE WAS A bellowing of sound; groaning of anguish and countenance of despair for many years, as St Vincent and the Grenadines yearned for a syntheti...
On Target
August 27, 2021
St Vincent and the Grenadines has, for some time now, been longing for a glimmer of sporting hope. The search for someone at the individual level or a...
On Target
August 20, 2021
Based on the nonchalance which exist during the coronavirus pandemic and the events which followed the eruptions of La Soufriere volcano in April; thi...
On Target
August 13, 2021
FOR THE PAST two weeks, the world over was glued to the television sets and other devices, as the belated 2020 Summer Olympics came off in Tokyo, Japa...
On Target
August 6, 2021
CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN order for those who took the bold step to appoint Theon Gordon as this country’s Director of Technical Matters of the St Vincen...
On Target
July 30, 2021
There is a strong possibility that there may not be any competitive sporting activities for the next few months, should the latest vaccination require...
On Target
July 23, 2021
Calling a spade, a spade, walking the moral highway and being impartial, are fast evading the psyche and operations of Vincentians. Instead, the robes...
On Target
July 16, 2021
FOR THE PAST two decades or so, there has been greater emphasis on ensuring persons are certified and qualified in physical Education and sports. Inde...
On Target
July 9, 2021
For the past months, March to be exact, many football aficionados, critics and those with a platform, had a lot to say about the performance of the se...
On Target
July 2, 2021
The events of the past weeks in national football have put the sport in a bad light. As such, those who are at the forefront of sport’s national admin...
On Target
June 25, 2021
St Vincent and the Grenadines currently does not have a good standing when it comes to sports. It seems that every step that is made, it is either in ...
On Target
June 18, 2021
It must be a case of the easy way out and the blame game, why several of our national sporting associations here in St Vincent and the Grenadines cont...
On Target
June 11, 2021
Surely, the tongues and fingers are busy, as to where should we go from here with St Vincent and the Grenadines’ football, following the recent displa...
On Target
June 4, 2021
Sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines has been hit an untimely blow. Like a wounded boxer, sports is proverbially against the ropes, as there is ble...
On Target
May 28, 2021
The staging of the Vincy Premier League (VPL) 3.0 T/10 cricket tournament over the past two weeks, has paved the way for the return of sports here in ...
On Target
May 21, 2021
There has to be some decisive course that must be pursued if our Arnos Vale Playing Field, and by extension, St Vincent and the Grenadines wants to st...
On Target
May 7, 2021
As St Vincent and the Grenadines continues to grapple with its many challenges, namely the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the La Soufriere volcano e...
On Target
April 30, 2021
Are the operations here in the St Vincent and the Grenadines quietly carving out a secret lodge movement? This has to be the assessment based on anoth...
On Target
April 23, 2021
Amidst what is happening here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, namely the explosive eruptions of La Soufriere volcano, it must not mean that we have ...
On Target
April 16, 2021
ST VINCENT AND the Grenadines, like the rest of the world, has for more than a year been dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic had place...
On Target
April 9, 2021
For the better part of the last decade, the sport of tennis here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, has taken a nose dive. The steady decline has been ...
On Target
April 1, 2021
There was much debate that boiled over into accusations and even ridicule, when St Vincent and the Grenadines senior men’s football team, Vincy Heat, ...
On Target
March 26, 2021
The protracted nonchalance given to sports from most of our policymakers in St Vincent and the Grenadines, is getting an extended run, as the coronavi...
On Target
March 19, 2021
It is commonly agreed that sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines is not what it ought to be. Or better put, we have not made the advancements necess...
On Target
March 12, 2021
St Vincent and the Grenadines joined with the rest of the world last Monday, March 8, in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD). As such, IWD was...
On Target
March 5, 2021
The time is now, more that ever that a conscious effort be made by the ational sports association, community organisations, clubs, teams and other sta...
On Target
February 26, 2021
Time after time, there has been calls for some attention be paid to national sports people, (past and present), who have fallen on hard times, be it f...
On Target
February 19, 2021
The concerns and public discussions occasioned by the announcement last Saturday, of the local training squad for the St Vincent and the Grenadines se...
On Target
February 12, 2021
No one should envy the position of head coach Kendale Mercury as he attempts to prepare the St Vincent and the Grenadines senior men’s football team f...
On Target
February 5, 2021
IT SHOULD NOT have taken the exposure of some of the happenings of wanton disregard by persons for the real use of the Diamond Track Facility, for gov...
On Target
January 29, 2021
Recently appointed Minister of the Public Service, Consumer Affairs and Sports Frederick Stephenson’s request, that school sports be placed under his ...
On Target
January 21, 2021
As sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines is again on the back foot, because of the inevitable impact of the coronavirus, which has been hovering as ...
On Target
January 15, 2021
Another wave of the novel coronavirus has hit us here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, crippling most, if not all sporting activities. Like a bolt of...
On Target
January 8, 2021
There were some rumblings among the few remaining persons who still have an interest in West Indies cricket, when 12 players opted not to tour Banglad...
On Target
December 31, 2020
The year 2020 is almost history physically, but its events and memories would forever be etched in the thoughts of many the world over. It was a year ...
On Target
December 23, 2020
Last Saturday’s charity football match staged at the Arnos Vale Two Playing Field in aid of the Salvation Army’s Orphanage located at Pembroke, is not...
On Target
December 18, 2020
Affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc. will tomorrow make one of the most crucial decisions in the history of the ad...
On Target
December 11, 2020
Last week, this column chose to delve into the cost of producing top performances in sports. It was agreed that consistent returns worthy of medals, a...
On Target
December 4, 2020
Often times, the end product of sports performance is measured mainly by the medals and matches won, records broken and titles achieved. But behind th...
On Target
November 27, 2020
Last Monday, November 23, marked one year since affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation chose Carl Dickson over Marvin Fra...
On Target
November 20, 2020
Sports is primarily an expression of one’s physical and mental talents, which are overtly expressed in the performance. Mostly through competitions, t...
On Target
November 13, 2020
This column for the past 15 years has been championing the cause of sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines first and foremost, and ocassionally ...
On Target
November 7, 2020
Should we here in St Vincent and the Grenadines take on the getting it right the first time approach as it relates to the way we do things in sports? ...
On Target
October 30, 2020
Persons who are heavily involved in sports would have been thoroughly disappointed in both major politicial parties, the Unity Labour Party (ULP) and ...
On Target
October 23, 2020
Two months ago, this column called on the policymakers of education, and by extension schools’ sports, to be real in these times. That call was made i...
On Target
October 16, 2020
The adding of a synthetic track to the sporting facilities stock of St Vincent and the Grenadines is imminent. The $4 million facility, constructed by...
On Target
October 9, 2020
Say what you want, pleased or frowned , support or oppose, the five year exercise of general elections continues to be part and parcel of the most pro...
On Target
October 2, 2020
It is often said that when your neighbour’s house is on fire, you need to wet yours. This may be a proverb, but it is also a truism that is applicable...
On Target
September 25, 2020
The role played by sportsmen and women here in St Vincent and the Grenadines has been mainly to train and represent their respective disciplines, at t...
On Target
September 18, 2020
The reduction in participation of females in sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, continues to become evident. In most of the sporting discip...
On Target
September 11, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ sporting landscape is not clothed in perfection, neither are we world beaters in any discipline, despite the presence o...
On Target
September 4, 2020
This week, On Target has chosen to take a peek at several sporting issues, local, regional and international, for us to chew on, as the we are all eme...
On Target
August 28, 2020
As the 2020/ 2021 academic year is set to get going next Monday, one readily anticipates a cautious approach to be taken by the relevant authorities, ...
On Target
August 21, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Vincy Heat must come stronger than ever, if they are to advance to the next round of the CONCACAF zone of the World Cup...
On Target
August 14, 2020
The five-year exercise of general elections is upon us here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Whilst one may just have to rely on conjecture as to whe...
On Target
August 7, 2020
It must be stated categorically, that St Vincent and the Grenadines’ sporting achievements, its human stock, facilities, among others, are not what th...
On Target
July 31, 2020
EARLIER THIS WEEK marked 25 years that our national men’s football team of 1995, placed second in the Shell Caribbean Cup. Whilst, this was not the fi...
On Target
July 24, 2020
Several developments over the last few weeks and months, have made it necessary for St Vincent and the Grenadines to become more proactive, by thinkin...
On Target
July 17, 2020
The sayings that “hard work brings success”, and “no pain, no gain” are quickly being demonised and treated as relics. These have been replaced by “we...
On Target
July 10, 2020
Will St Vincent and the Grenadines arrive at that juncture when all of our students will be involved in some sporting discipline? Are we willing and r...
On Target
July 3, 2020
The set of guidelines set down by the National COVID-19 Task-force to facilitate the resumption of the national club championships, organised by the S...
On Target
June 26, 2020
It is welcome news that two outstanding components of the Brighton Playing Field development project, as undertaken by the St Vincent and the Grenadin...
News
September 12, 2025
THE ASHLEY LASHLEY Foundation, with support from the United States Government, is implementing a local-level project entitled “Community-Driven Strate...
News
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....
News
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...
News
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...
From the Courts, News
September 12, 2025
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...
