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June 19, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines, unlike other countries in the region, has not placed that much attention on having strong alumni. This is not to say th...
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June 12, 2020
This column has continually expressed that St Vincent and the Grenadines is not where it ought to be when it comes to the development of our sporting ...
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June 5, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines, after over two months of being starved of competitive sporting activities, is picking up the pieces, and slowly moving ...
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May 29, 2020
The much anticipated inaugural Vincy Premier League (VPL) would have lost some of its sting, by the faux pas made by the stakeholders last Friday, the...
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May 22, 2020
The executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc. has been able to conjure up the Vincy Premier League (VPL). Without prior ...
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May 15, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines has placed a tick in another of the boxes, as it relates the prerequisties for becoming a host for major sporting events...
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May 8, 2020
The back and forth among some of our regional cricketers, namely Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan, where they have been engaged in verbal tirade, has ...
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April 30, 2020
The jury may be still in session, determining whether or not the decision of vice–president of Team Athletics SVG, Michael “Lord Have Mercy” Ollivierr...
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April 24, 2020
Indeed the past shapes the future and it is evident by the way things pan out and sometimes evolve. And, this relates to every sphere of life. In the ...
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April 17, 2020
Football, undoubtedly the most popular and widespread sporting discipline here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, should first put its hand up, and beg...
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April 9, 2020
No one expected it, no one was prepared for it, but the reality is that the coronavirus (covid-19) is with us. Importantly, like everything else, that...
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April 3, 2020
The recently held 2019 National Lotteries Authority National Sports Awards has served to redefine the terminology of who is a “Sports Journalist”. Acc...
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March 27, 2020
THE INEVITABLE passage of death made a stop last Friday and took with it cricket statistician and analyst Earl Robinson. This, as he lost his battle t...
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March 20, 2020
THE ALMOST worldwide shutdown of sporting events has affected many individuals, the corporate community, you name it. Like a boomerang, the spread of ...
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March 13, 2020
MAYBE THE ENVITABLE came last Wednesday night, when health authorities here, confirmed that St Vincent and the Grenadines has recorded its first case ...
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March 6, 2020
TIME AFTER TIME, persons in positions of decision, would glowingly speak of sports as if their heart and soul are in it. They would often pronounce th...
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February 28, 2020
With just about one month, before St Vincent and the Grenadines senior men’s football team Vincy Heat face Guadeloupe in a home and away tie in the CO...
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February 21, 2020
THE RECENT ACT of kindness by the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc., in which that organisation has undertaken t...
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February 14, 2020
AFFILIATES OF THE St Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association (SVGNA), will next Tuesday evening, go through the formalities of attending the An...
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February 7, 2020
YET AGAIN, OUR young sportsmen have been misguided. The latest evidence of this assessment was played out last Sunday afternoon at the Chili Playing F...
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January 31, 2020
FOR TOO LONG, sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines has operated on the notion that winning is not the only thing. And, seemingly, that thought has ...
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January 24, 2020
LIFE IS FILLED with unexpected events, which cannot be planned for, nor their courses changed. One readily accepts natural disasters, political or soc...
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January 17, 2020
THE DECISION OF the female committee of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation, to initiate a mentorship programme for national female ...
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January 10, 2020
As promised as a follow up to last week’s exposition, this column will this week focus on what can be done administratively to better sports here in S...
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January 3, 2020
As we said goodbye to 2019 a couple days ago, and anxiously look forward to 2020 and its prospects, one cannot help but accept and concede that St Vin...
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December 20, 2019
Sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines is purely recreational, and that is a given. Save and except for the handful of footballers who are semi-profe...
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December 13, 2019
The executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Volleyball Association must tap themselves on the shoulder for their tenacity in seeing through the...
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December 6, 2019
There was some excited anticipation, when prior to the start of the 2019/2020 schools’ sports programme, it was evident that the officials from the Di...
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November 29, 2019
Affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation spoke loudly with their secret ballots last Saturday at the Methodist Church Hall ...
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November 22, 2019
When affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) cast their ballots tomorrow at the Methodist Church Hall in Kingstown...
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November 8, 2019
In recent years, St Vincent and the Grenadines has been the venue for the hosting of several sporting tournaments. It is no stroke of luck of anything...
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November 1, 2019
Last week, Cricket West Indies formally released its itinerary for the next three years of hosting international cricket matches in the Caribbean. The...
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October 25, 2019
St Vincent and the Grenadines on October 27, 1979, attained its political independence from Britain. As a country, 40 years after, much has been achie...
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October 11, 2019
It is quite timely and fitting that as we celebrate our 40 years of political independence, there is a national programme dubbed “Renewal at 40”. The ...
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October 4, 2019
The formal announcement earlier this week, that the Division of Physical Education and Sports will take the lead in the organisation of most of the di...
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September 27, 2019
The popular slogan of “No child left behind” has, in some aspects of the education system, received some traction in meaning, whist still not fully in...
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September 20, 2019
The world over, we are seeing the merging of some major corporations, or the total disappearance of some. Whilst some of these entities have formed st...
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September 13, 2019
The steam is rising as St Vincent and the Grenadines’ senior men’s football team Vincy Heat is positioning itself in group four of tier B of the inaug...
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September 6, 2019
No one, not even the most ardent supporter of West Indies cricket can say now, after the woeful display over the last four months by the regional seni...
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August 30, 2019
The chain of events that unfolded which eventually led to the St Vincent and the Grenadines senior men’s volleyball team not being able to attend the ...
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August 23, 2019
ST VINCENT AND the Grenadines’ participation in the recently concluded Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, has again underscored where we are in sports....
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August 16, 2019
Last Saturday, the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) and by extension St Vincent and the Grenadines, hosted president of FIFA ...
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August 9, 2019
For yet another year, the St Vincent and the Grenadines team to the Winlott Inc. / CBN Windward Islands Schools’ Games, has not been able to put in a ...
On Target
August 2, 2019
Just over a month ago during Vincy Mas 2019, there was much talk going around St Vincent and the Grenadines that it was time for a young artiste to wi...
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July 26, 2019
There will always be healthy discussions, and sometimes arguments as it relates to sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. The ups will be haile...
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July 19, 2019
Another change in the composition of the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Basketball Federation (SVGBF) has taken place. Therefore, out ...
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July 12, 2019
One is wondering why there are the many lamentations across the Caribbean, especially, at the West Indies’ exit from the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, w...
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July 5, 2019
The death of netball stalwart Gloria Ballantyne last Saturday, confirms that all good things and good persons, will not last forever. Balllantyne, who...
On Target
June 28, 2019
Last week’s hosting of the ECCB/OECS International Netball Series here at the Arnos Vale Netball Complex brought out many positives and may be an equa...
On Target
June 21, 2019
The hosting of the inaugural ECCB/OECS International Netball Series here at the Arnos Vale Netball Complex, over the past week, has again put into per...
On Target
June 7, 2019
It is more than laughable that Minister of Health, Wellness and the Environment Hon. Luke Browne, should speak out vehemently against the lack-lustre ...
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May 31, 2019
Last week, the draw was revealed and the dates set for the inaugural CONCACAF Nations League. Placed in Tier B of the Nations League, the revelations ...
On Target
May 24, 2019
When the West Indies go into this year’s ICC World Cup campaign next Friday, May 31, versus Pakistan at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, England, not even ...
On Target
May 17, 2019
The executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation has been busy for the past six months addressing many of its administrative kin...
On Target
May 10, 2019
National netball has welcomed a new champion, when Twilight Trading X- Ceed was installed as the league winners of the Gloria Ballantyne Division One ...
On Target, Sports
May 3, 2019
St Vincent and the Grenadines got multi-million dollars worth of free advertising last week, when the National Football League (NFL) of the United Sta...
On Target, Sports
April 26, 2019
How long must national sporting associations here wait for a facility to call their home? And how much more must they wait on promises of government’s...
On Target
April 12, 2019
THE WALK-OFF by Georgetown Secondary School’s cricket team, at last Wednesday’s Massey Insurances Secondary Schools’ Under-19 cricket final, has dealt...
On Target
April 5, 2019
LAST WEEK, St Vincent and the Grenadines experienced three days of track and field action at the Arnos Vale Playing Field. In what has become a trilog...
On Target
March 22, 2019
Next Wednesday and Thursday, the best in track and field at both the primary and secondary schools, will pit their skills at the Arnos Vale Playing Fi...
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March 15, 2019
The upcoming presidential race for the top post of Cricket West Indies set for Jamaica, March 24, is heating up to be an intriguing affair. Incumbent,...
On Target
March 8, 2019
For the past week, the buzz in local sports has been the Windward Islands Football Association (WIFA) senior men’s football tournament. This buzz was ...
On Target
March 1, 2019
The herculean efforts of raising the necessary funds get the St Vincent and the Grenadines Special Olympics team to the World Games in Abu Dhabi, this...
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February 22, 2019
The decision by the Barrouallie Secondary School, to host this year’s track meet on a Sunday, would indeed stir some concerns, when the reality hits h...
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February 15, 2019
The annual national netball club tournament, the flagship evaluation process for our netball talent, is set to begin soon. Expected would be the regul...
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February 8, 2019
For too long, St Vincent and the Grenadines has been operating in sports without an iconic figure; someone who has that persona to inspire others and ...
On Target
February 1, 2019
Sporting organisations in St Vincent and the Grenadines, should not pass up the opportunity to help reform some of our youths, who have either shown a...
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January 25, 2019
THE STRUGGLE IS real for Vincentian sportsmen and women across all disciplines who seek to maintain a level of performance that will keep them in the ...
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January 18, 2019
THERE HAVE BEEN several events in the field of sports over the past week which warrant taking notes for the record, as they may be needed for future r...
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January 11, 2019
SEVERAL CALLS HAVE been made in various quarters for St Vincent and the Grenadines to have a secondary sporting facility in its stock of infrastructur...
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January 4, 2019
AT THE START of every New Year, there is always that time for reflection, that time for some introspection, and time set aside for self-evaluation. Th...
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December 28, 2018
THE EXECUTIVE OF the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF), which for the last four months, has had Marvin Fraser installed as pre...
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December 21, 2018
Whether it is a case of confirmation or affirmation, the decision carried by affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association (SVGC...
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December 14, 2018
Two events over last weekend, has given football in St Vincent and the Grenadines, a booster shot. Firstly, the efforts of the Bequia Football Associa...
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December 7, 2018
When Team Athletics SVG sought, four years ago, to re-introduce the Chatoyer Endurance 10K, it was welcomed among those who follow and understand spor...
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November 30, 2018
Last Friday’s hosting of the junior and senior division finals of the secondary schools’ football tournament, was one of the biggest injustices anyone...
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November 23, 2018
The inevitability of death has again hit the St Vincent and the Grenadines sporting fraternity. This, after the sudden death of sports administrator a...
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November 16, 2018
National sporting associations here, are faced with the reality that it is not a given to get spectators to attend their events. Most, if not all, are...
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November 9, 2018
It is with some sense of certainty that the sport of volleyball is slowly carving out a pathway of command at the sub-regional level, namely – the Eas...
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November 2, 2018
The pronouncement made last Saturday at the Independence parade at the Victoria Park, by this country’s Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, of a natio...
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October 26, 2018
This weekend culminates another occasion of our national independence celebrations. Whilst the traditions of patriotism and nationalism, as well as a ...
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October 19, 2018
THERE HAS BEEN some discussion in recent times, of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF), looking the way of the employment fo...
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October 12, 2018
There is never a perfect society, neither no one has a monopoly on knowledge. However, there must always be that fervour and willing intent to strive ...
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October 5, 2018
There has once again been snippets of discussion in the past week about the state of West Indies cricket. This type of discourse has been with the reg...
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September 28, 2018
St Vincent and the Grenadines, like others countries of the world, is under a social watch, as deviance of various proportion, has become part of the ...
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September 21, 2018
There are some songs that are not worthy for air play, nor are they suitable for auditory consumption. However, these songs will be played and will be...
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September 14, 2018
Once again St Vincent and the Grenadines’ football has been cruelly exposed at the international level. This time though, the cruelty was magnified, a...
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September 7, 2018
For several weeks now, there have been many expositions in the media, in reference to the state of St Vincent and the Grenadines’ netball. The concern...
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August 31, 2018
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is set to host a major tennis event here, from late October to early November. Dubbed the SVG Cup, the event is la...
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August 24, 2018
Newly installed president of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) Marvin Fraser has promised to be inclusive during his tenur...
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...
