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August 10, 2018
Affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation are set to make another major decision next Thursday, as they are forced to elect ...
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August 3, 2018
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ joint second place in the 2018 CBN/Winlott Inc. Windward Islands Schools’ Games, which concluded in St Lucia last Sunda...
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July 13, 2018
Whatever came out of yesterday’s (Thursday, July 12) planned meeting with affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) ...
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June 29, 2018
With the continuous hue and cry about sporting facilities, their upkeep and other concerns, it may be opportune for the powers that be to review how i...
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June 22, 2018
Another national sporting accomplishment was registered last weekend in Antigua, when the Vincentian combination of Enrico Louraine and Micah Glasgow ...
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June 15, 2018
In recent times, there has been a growing call for a national policy programme to be put in motion to use sports to put a dent in the incidences of cr...
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June 8, 2018
Another set of voids have been left in the sporting structure of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Not that anyone is indispensable, but there are some p...
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June 1, 2018
Sports is indeed a culture of many people and nations across the globe. Whilst St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) does not have a sports culture per ...
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May 25, 2018
It is often touted that education/academics and sports are inter-twined. Therefore, persons who are adept in sports, are often encouraged to equip the...
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May 18, 2018
An undertaking by Team Athletics SVG to facilitate the reconstruction of a modern long and triple jump facility at the Grammar School Playing Field, i...
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May 10, 2018
Tennis, a sport which, at one time, held a space in the pride and joy column of Vincentian best, has over time lost its appeal. This relegation in sta...
SVGʼs XXI Commonwealth  Games in retrospect
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April 20, 2018
ST VINCENT AND the Grenadines’ participation in the XXI Commonwealth Games which concluded on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, last Sunday, can ...
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March 29, 2018
The Ministry of Education hosted the National Lotteries Authority Inter- Primary Schools’ Athletics Championships (IPSAC), as well as the Inter-Seco...
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March 23, 2018
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...
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March 16, 2018
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...
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March 9, 2018
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...
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March 2, 2018
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...
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February 23, 2018
Undoubtedly, St Vincent and the Grenadines’ football, like other sporting disciplines here, needs fixing. Over time some gaping holes have emerged i...
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February 16, 2018
Like a stuck record, this column has persistently commented on the state of our schools’ competitions here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. The rel...
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February 9, 2018
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...
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February 2, 2018
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...
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January 26, 2018
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...
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January 19, 2018
There appears to be some unsavoury developments within the national administration of football here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Whilst the...
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January 12, 2018
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...
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January 5, 2018
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...
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December 29, 2017
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 ...
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December 22, 2017
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ performance in the just concluded Winlott Inc Windward Islands Under-15 Cricket Tournament was a testimony of what ha...
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December 15, 2017
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...
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December 8, 2017
When former President of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc Julian Jack readily accepted to be an honouree of the associationâ€...
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December 1, 2017
Several of our national sporting associations’ officials, government ministers, government agencies, other political figures and coaches have been g...
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November 24, 2017
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...
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November 17, 2017
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...
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November 10, 2017
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...
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November 3, 2017
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...
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October 26, 2017
As St Vincent and the Grenadines celebrates its 38th anniversary of political independence, we are still lagging behind in having a national honour sy...
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October 20, 2017
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...
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October 13, 2017
The continuous decay in our social values, which in some regard can be attributed to an emerging violent Vincentian society, is getting the attention ...
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October 6, 2017
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) senior men’s volleyball team did not light up the Continental Championships held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, ...
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September 29, 2017
Much of the blame for the state of sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) lies on the shoulders of the policy makers, namely the government app...
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September 22, 2017
St Vincent and the Grenadines is filled with persons, especially those in authority of sports, who spew a lot of hot air. They come with their grandio...
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September 15, 2017
“Soccer, Soccer – the game of the people,” was a profound promotion for local football, coined by Basil “Bung” Cato, back in the late 1970s....
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September 8, 2017
Everyone can expect a near perfect academic year, in which the schools’ sporting calendar will be well administered, with an extremely high level of...
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September 1, 2017
The revelations that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has ratified the donation of synthetic tracks to needy member count...
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August 25, 2017
Every so often, when national age group teams participate in sub-regional or regional competitions, whether staged locally or overseas, the regular de...
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August 18, 2017
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...
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August 11, 2017
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...
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August 4, 2017
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ performance, in the just concluded CBN/Winlott Inc Windward Islands Schools’ Games, is what most people who have a ...
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July 28, 2017
 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...
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July 21, 2017
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...
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July 14, 2017
Death, whilst inevitable, is rarely accepted when reality strikes. Therefore, the tragic loss of national footballer Roy “Chicken” Richards, last ...
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July 7, 2017
Many sporting events, locally, regionally and internationally, may just slip under the radar of significance and escape the attention of persons who w...
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June 30, 2017
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...
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June 23, 2017
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...
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June 16, 2017
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 ...
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June 9, 2017
Over time, the lack of vibrancy and inactivity, are causing some national sporting associations to become almost irrelevant. Heading up the list of su...
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June 2, 2017
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...
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May 26, 2017
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...
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May 19, 2017
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...
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May 12, 2017
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...
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May 5, 2017
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...
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April 28, 2017
When stakeholders of sports war with their words, then follow up with their actions; organizations consistently bicker at one another and when coaches...
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April 21, 2017
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 ...
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April 13, 2017
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...
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April 7, 2017
The lamentations of the state of our schools’ sporting disciplines have gone unnoticed, unchecked and those in authority have been unresponsive to t...
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March 31, 2017
With some regularity, the annual Inter Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships (ISSAC) has given some glimpses into the future of this country’...
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March 24, 2017
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...
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March 3, 2017
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...
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February 24, 2017
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 ...
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February 17, 2017
St Vincent and the Grenadines has received a possible economic platform with the final delivery of the Argyle International Airport (AIA). First up, i...
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February 10, 2017
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...
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February 3, 2017
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...
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January 27, 2017
The local Volleyball set-up is indeed standing at the crossroads, and is in dire need of some directions. Hopefully, tomorrow’s extraordinary genera...
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January 20, 2017
The continued suffering of sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is fast-forwarding its slow painful death. But critically, the policy makers ...
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January 13, 2017
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...
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January 6, 2017
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...
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December 30, 2016
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...
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December 23, 2016
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...
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December 16, 2016
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...
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December 9, 2016
Undoubtedly, the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc (SVGCA), under the presidency of Kishore Shallow, has done eno...
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December 2, 2016
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has not systematically embraced the establishment of a sporting culture; hence, we are lagging behind in accepting...
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November 25, 2016
St Vincent and the Grenadines, through the local governing body for Track and Field – Team Athletics SVG, is moving towards developing an event whic...
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November 18, 2016
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...
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November 4, 2016
The St Vincent and the Grenadines Swimming Federation has undertaken to host the 26th edition of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) S...
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October 28, 2016
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...
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October 21, 2016
There must be some way out of making the annual Secondary Schools’ Football Tournament more attractive and meaningful to the participating teams and...