On Target

ST VINCENT AND the Grenadines’ participation in the XXI Commonwealth Games which concluded on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, last Sunday, can ...

The Ministry of Education hosted the National Lotteries Authority Inter- Primary Schools’ Athletics Championships (IPSAC), as well as the Inter-Seco...

YES! The West Indies have earned a place in the ICC World Cup, set for England and Wales, May 30 to July 15, 2019. But anyone who watched the regional...

The local track and field season reaches its zenith next week, with the hosting of the annual inter- primary, inter-secondary and the St Vincent and t...

The tranquillity and the almost sedate atmosphere in which the Team Athletics SVG’s electoral meeting was staged last Monday at the Xpert Computer C...

Every so often, when things become stale and when there is no need for drastic overhauls, a shake-up might be appropriate. But at present, there are a...

When Team Athletics SVG, some years ago, introduced the Relay Classic event on its calendar, persons in the local track and field fraternity readily e...

For the second week in succession, this column has been forced to pay tribute to a dearly departed Vincentian, who has made a mark on the sporting lan...

When news broke last Monday of the death of one of Sion Hill’s and largely, St Vincent and the Grenadines’ pillars, Lloyd “Manager” Lewis, the...

There appears to be some unsavoury developments within the national administration of football here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Whilst the...

As we, a few days ago, tucked away the trappings and moods of the recent Christmas season, many homes and communities here in St Vincent and the Grena...

The National Sports Council (NSC), which has the mandate of supervision and administration of most of the playing fields and hard courts across St Vin...

Once again this column has to lament on another calendar year in Vincentian sporting activities, both on and off the field. There was little to shout ...

St Vincent and the Grenadines’ performance in the just concluded Winlott Inc Windward Islands Under-15 Cricket Tournament was a testimony of what ha...

Local sporting competitions have been entangled in a mad rush, helter-skelter, symptomatic of this time of year – Christmas. At stake is the quest t...

When former President of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc Julian Jack readily accepted to be an honouree of the associationâ€...

Several of our national sporting associations’ officials, government ministers, government agencies, other political figures and coaches have been g...

Perfection cannot be attained here on earth; that is the simple reality of life and sports falls into the same bracket. But narrowing it down to St Vi...

There are several aspects of the Vincentian sports structure that have been left over the years to fester and almost to decay without any actions to c...

This column, for many years now, has been clamouring for a sporting event that can be described as St Vincent and the Grenadines’ signature sports t...

The recent hosting of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee’s (SVGOC) general meeting and more so, the elections, should make for a be...

As St Vincent and the Grenadines celebrates its 38th anniversary of political independence, we are still lagging behind in having a national honour sy...

Day after day, the real meaning of sports is losing its purpose. Sports, play, games and other physical activities are primarily for fun, with the oth...

The continuous decay in our social values, which in some regard can be attributed to an emerging violent Vincentian society, is getting the attention ...

Everyone can expect a near perfect academic year, in which the schools’ sporting calendar will be well administered, with an extremely high level of...

The revelations that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has ratified the donation of synthetic tracks to needy member count...

Every so often, when national age group teams participate in sub-regional or regional competitions, whether staged locally or overseas, the regular de...

Amidst the despair currently being experienced on the local sporting landscape, there was something to smile about last week in St Lucia. A group of v...

As painful and heart wrenching it may be, it must be sounded and echoed that St Vincent and the Grenadines is not where it ought to be in sports. In f...

St Vincent and the Grenadines’ performance, in the just concluded CBN/Winlott Inc Windward Islands Schools’ Games, is what most people who have a ...

 The May 12, 2017 On Target specifically asked if St Vincent and the Grenadines were really hosting the CBN/ Winlott Inc Windward Islands Schools’ G...

The recent proposed kiss and make up truce between the two warring factions of West Indies Cricket Board – now Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the glo...

Death, whilst inevitable, is rarely accepted when reality strikes. Therefore, the tragic loss of national footballer Roy “Chicken” Richards, last ...

Many sporting events, locally, regionally and internationally, may just slip under the radar of significance and escape the attention of persons who w...

For many years now, this column has been calling on the relevant authorities to seek out and at the same time maximize the economic benefits that pres...

The meaningful intention of the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc to have two rounds of competition in the Nation...

Like almost every facet of modern day life, technology and its platforms have impacted one way or the other on everyone. Inescapable, sports has been ...

Over time, the lack of vibrancy and inactivity, are causing some national sporting associations to become almost irrelevant. Heading up the list of su...

It is an undeniable fact that there is no real passion for sports anymore in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Instead, there is a pronounced lame approa...

Neither the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control, nor the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc can evade the cr...

Once again, St Vincent and the Grenadines was the beneficiary of technical support for its sports programme. The latest trough came from a pilot proje...

Maybe there is work taking place behind the scenes, as St Vincent and the Grenadines is set to host this year’s edition of the annual Winlott Inc/CB...

The decision by the Thomas Saunders Secondary School and now the St Vincent Grammar School to go to the famed Penn Relays in the USA continues to be q...

When stakeholders of sports war with their words, then follow up with their actions; organizations consistently bicker at one another and when coaches...

Within recent times, there seems to be a stretch in the relationship between some coaches and the executive body of Team Athletics SVG, the governing ...

Local Tennis needs a big serve to get its match going again, as the crescendos that sport have been going through over the past decade are too consist...

The lamentations of the state of our schools’ sporting disciplines have gone unnoticed, unchecked and those in authority have been unresponsive to t...

With some regularity, the annual Inter Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships (ISSAC) has given some glimpses into the future of this country’...

It is widely accepted that the track and field championships at both the primary and secondary levels are the marquee events on the schools’ sportin...

The recent participation of local football clubs System Three Sports Academy and Bequia United in the Caribbean Zone of the CONCACAF Club Championship...

The jury is out about the decision by two secondary schools here to host their annual track and field meets in the afternoon into the evening. Having ...

Schools’ sports have been hit with yet another low blow, added to the list of faux pas and miscues. The latest to be registered in the book of trans...

Over the years there have been a number of reasons/excuses as to why this country’s premier sporting facility, the Arnos Vale Playing Field, cannot ...

St Vincent and the Grenadines has received a possible economic platform with the final delivery of the Argyle International Airport (AIA). First up, i...

Again, the track and field season is upon us and the hectic and hyped nature of the sports will soon inject the athletes, coaches and enthusiasts alik...

Last Saturday’s aborted elections of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Volleyball Association (SVGVA) is a clear indication that we are at our lowes...

The local Volleyball set-up is indeed standing at the crossroads, and is in dire need of some directions. Hopefully, tomorrow’s extraordinary genera...

The continued suffering of sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is fast-forwarding its slow painful death. But critically, the policy makers ...

The increasing demand for space for sporting facilities, the diversity in the stock of the sporting disciplines practised here in St Vincent and the G...

Our beloved country St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has become a resort of talkers, mouth champions and lip service experts; however, there has be...

In a matter of a day, 2016 will be history and another year will be recorded as gone. In all spheres of life, many persons reaped some success; for ot...

A local sporting event, competition or tournament does not go by without a plea by organizers or sporting officials for players, match officials and s...

There is an urgent need to salvage what is being excused for schools’ sports competitions. Yes, thus far for this academic year, the primary and sec...

Undoubtedly, the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc (SVGCA), under the presidency of Kishore Shallow, has done eno...

St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has not systematically embraced the establishment of a sporting culture; hence, we are lagging behind in accepting...

St Vincent and the Grenadines, through the local governing body for Track and Field – Team Athletics SVG, is moving towards developing an event whic...

Anytime one concludes and reclines with the assurance that West Indies cricket has hit its all-time low, there comes a happening that takes it even lo...

Two sporting matters, one of a personal nature and the other with a broader national scope, were raised recently in the local media, and their subsequ...

The St Vincent and the Grenadines Swimming Federation has undertaken to host the 26th edition of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) S...

There are several outlets which have been employed to relate, highlight and find solutions to the travails experienced in sports here in St Vincent an...

There must be some way out of making the annual Secondary Schools’ Football Tournament more attractive and meaningful to the participating teams and...

Last week’s revelations that some players who have served St Vincent and the Grenadines’ netball well in the past, but who are now advanced in age...

Over the past two months, there have been several pronouncements on whether or not this country of ours is in need of a national stadium. Much was ven...

Confining ourselves to the existing sporting talents and expertise which reside with us here in St Vincent and the Grenadines will simply not cut it, ...

Is sports still a unifying force here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG)? ‘Yes’ would obviously be the expected response. However, the unfoldi...

The firing of Phil Simmons as head coach of the West Indies team means that the regional sport is into the tail with only numbers 10 and 11 to come. S...

One can already anticipate the review of the technical staff, the executive, and those unrepentant loyalists of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Foot...

The gesture of Coreas Hazells Inc last Saturday to recognize three of this country’s sports personalities: Stanley Hinds, Guy Lowe and Genita Lewis ...

The Vincentian sporting community, both active and passive, has unfortunately in the main, been locked into an acceptance that better cannot be done; ...

It may seem to many persons who follow sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), whether as ardent spectators or as casual observers, that there ...

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), in many quarters over the years, has been labelled and accused of being unprofessional, uncaring and most of all...

Can it now be concluded that St Vincent and the Grenadines’ (SVG) participation in/attendance at the annual CBN/ Winlott Inc Windward Islands School...

It must be a difficult to be growing up here in these times as a teenager or as a young adult. They are faced with a dilemma, as they are damned if th...

This column has been forever pounding that there exists a crisis in leadership in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and this goes across the board, ...