On Target
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...
On Target
April 29, 2016
Finance, inadequate facilities, the lack of technical support, absence of a meaningful national sports policy and the political will to make sports am...
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April 22, 2016
St Vincent and the Grenadines has some form of sporting history, whether it is orally communicated or the sporadic documentation. In the absence of a ...
On Target
April 15, 2016
Something has to give one way or the other when it comes to the administration of school sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Whilst sports a...
On Target
April 8, 2016
Euphoria struck the Caribbean last Sunday, when the West Indies won both the womenâs and menâs International Cricket Council (ICC) World Twenty/20...
On Target
April 1, 2016
It should now have become clichéd that almost each time a national representative team leaves these shores on an overseas assignment, on the return, ...
On Target
March 24, 2016
The time is right, more than ever, for the various sporting set-ups here in St Vincent and the Grenadines to adopt the motto of the Eastern Caribbean ...
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March 18, 2016
This column continues to be vindicated in relation to its weekly commentary, which often makes reference to several happenings on the sporting landsca...
On Target
March 11, 2016
Having competitions for the right reasons, other than simply having them, must be the deviation in thinking of those who rubber-stamp the hosting of a...
On Target
March 4, 2016
It must be a mountain of regret, that which is the state of play with the sport of tennis in St Vincent and the Grenadines. For the better part of fiv...
On Target
February 26, 2016
The announcement last Monday by the National Sports Council of the cancellation of the 2015 National Sports Awards ceremony might neither be here nor ...
On Target
February 19, 2016
The young West Indies U-19 teamâs first hold of the ICC Youth World Cup last Sunday in Bangladesh must only have been embraced by those die-hard fol...
On Target
February 12, 2016
At most sporting events, there is always that forewarning and often an appeal for discipline to reign throughout the duration of the competitions. The...
On Target
February 5, 2016
The planned introduction of a junior secondary schoolsâ cricket competition must be a welcomed addition to the local agenda of the sport. It is a ca...
On Target
January 29, 2016
As the local track and field season intensifies, most educational institutions â pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary â are all engaging i...
On Target
January 22, 2016
One of the local sporting issues making the rounds last week was the planned imposition of user fees for the use of playing fields here in St Vincent ...
On Target
January 15, 2016
A few of our local sporting associations, namely Track and Field, Cricket, Table Tennis, Football and Basketball, have embarked on grassroots programm...
On Target
January 8, 2016
As the fortunes of various sporting disciplines here in St Vincent and the Grenadines unfold in drips, there still remains time for stock- taking. Pri...
On Target
December 29, 2015
It is normal at this time of year that many wishes for a bright and prosperous New Year are common choruses, as one looks forward to the coming year. ...
On Target
December 18, 2015
The distribution of the portfolios for the Cabinet of St Vincent and the Grenadines, as announced last Monday, shows that Cecil Mc Kie will remain as ...
On Target
December 11, 2015
As the calendar year 2015 comes to a close, it is not too early to begin to reflect and take a drone shot on the sporting landscape of St Vincent and ...
On Target
December 4, 2015
We should not go into 2016 with the same structure, the same mindset and likewise the corresponding posture in the way the schoolsâ sports programme...
On Target
November 27, 2015
Whenever large events, mainly those of a sporting nature, are hosted here, we are shown up as not really being ready for the big occasions. Having eve...
On Target
November 20, 2015
Affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation will sit tomorrow at the Media Centre of the Arnos Vale Playing Field to elect a n...
On Target
November 13, 2015
There seems no end in sight when it comes to fair play and integrity in sports. The name of the game today is to win at all costs or by any means nece...
On Target
October 30, 2015
The growing demands of world cricket are making our beloved Arnos Vale Playing Field and, by extension, St Vincent and the Grenadines, no longer able ...
On Target
October 23, 2015
As St Vincent and the Grenadines nears its 36th year since gaining political independence, there will always be a hung jury as to whether we have maxi...
On Target
October 16, 2015
This column, over the years, has been advocating for St Vincent and the Grenadines to establish a sporting event which can be distinctly its own. Ther...
On Target
October 9, 2015
The current administrators of our football have proven that they are not up to the times, as it relates to the demands of the modern day game. This as...
On Target
October 2, 2015
West Indies Cricket, through its evolution, became glue for regional cooperation and social advancement for the peoples of the Caribbean. However, the...
On Target
September 25, 2015
If one cuts across the contours of all sporting disciplines practised in St Vincent and the Grenadines, one common denominator is revealed â the pre...
On Target
September 18, 2015
The refurbishing, upgrading and rebranding of the Shrewsbury Swimming facility to the Shrewsbury Aquatic Centre (SAC) could not come at a more opportu...
On Target
September 11, 2015
Many Vincentians, especially those who follow the sport of football, must indeed be happy that St Vincent and the Grenadines has once again made it to...
On Target
September 4, 2015
It is better late than never, but the long awaited and much needed resurfacing and some attention to the National Tennis Centre at Villa is welcomed w...
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August 28, 2015
Those who follow football in St Vincent and the Grenadines must be running out of negative superlatives to describe the current happenings on the admi...
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August 21, 2015
A few months ago, this column highlighted the struggles faced by the local Special Olympics movement to get some recognition for its work. Mention was...
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August 14, 2015
Local football was hit recently by another blow to its already low status in the pecking order of administration of the sport. The revelation of a â...
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August 7, 2015
The call by volleyballers to have the second sport court acquired by the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Volleyball Association placed ...
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July 31, 2015
It must have come as some type of relief that St Vincent and the Grenadinesâ football has been spared an embarrassment and things are back to normal...
On Target
July 24, 2015
St Vincent and the Grenadines is once again readying its young sportsmen and women to head out to Dominica from this weekend for the annual Windward I...
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July 17, 2015
The full season of sports camps is upon us again. One cannot keep up or keep check with the numbers, as there are camps here, camps there, camps every...
On Target
July 10, 2015
Local sports got another booster shot last week, when the national Under-19 male cricket team lifted, for the first time since 2008, the Windward Isla...
On Target
July 3, 2015
St Vincent and the Grenadines continues to ride the tide of football success with the latest being the Under-23 menâs team reaching the semi-final s...
On Target
June 26, 2015
The growing status of sports worldwide of sports as an economic and social force has brought with it certain complexities. Gone are the days when insu...
On Target
June 19, 2015
The advance of this countryâs senior menâs football team Vincy Heat to the third round of the CONCACAF Zone of the World Cup qualifiers, has been ...
On Target
June 12, 2015
Some of the recent happenings locally, in the past week or so, in sports, are enough to make the most loyal follower puke in disgust. We all know, and...
On Target
June 5, 2015
Whatever unfolds from the ongoing investigations into footballâs world governing body, FIFA and its operations, there would be not only a shift in t...
On Target
May 29, 2015
Since entering the fray of footballâs biggest show (The World Cup) in 1992, St Vincent and the Grenadines has been part of each four-year campaign. ...
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May 22, 2015
The recent outburst by two of the nationâs most promising athletes â sprint twins Reberto and Reuberth Boyde â must surely have come as a shock ...
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May 15, 2015
No more can St Vincent and the Grenadines tennis officials and the country as a whole recline in their patio seats and know that the annual Internatio...
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May 8, 2015
This column has been forced again to look at the issue of the playing fields across St Vincent and the Grenadines. It is widely accepted that there is...
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April 30, 2015
The monotonous and frequent pronouncements from some members of the current executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Friends and Family â oops...
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April 21, 2015
Often, when the national sporting configuration is being shaped, discussed and institutionalized, very little attention is paid to Special Olympics (S...
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April 10, 2015
Throwing the baby out with the bath water; killing the goose which lays the golden egg; or biting the hand which feeds you; any one applies to the org...
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April 2, 2015
The local Athletics calendar reached its zenith last week Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, with the hosting of the Inter-primary, Inter-secondary and In...
On Target
March 27, 2015
The inevitable exit of the West Indies from the Cricket World Cup 2015 should not surprise, as anything better would have been a massive fluke. In fac...
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March 20, 2015
The 2015 Inter Primary and Inter Secondary Schools Athletics Championships set for the Arnos Vale Playing Field next Tuesday and Wednesday have been d...
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March 13, 2015
The call for at least a synthetic track for St Vincent and the Grenadines must now be like a daily prayer which has been unanswered for a very long ti...
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March 6, 2015
We are lowering our levels of scruples, fair play and most of all our integrity when called upon to be honest and unbiased in matters of sports here i...
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February 27, 2015
At last some persons have been bold enough to challenge the status quo, as many of the things we do now, can be done differently. The brave effort by ...
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February 13, 2015
The issue of school versus club/team continues to be one up for a debate. Whilst not indigenous to St Vincent and the Grenadines, one has to fix what ...
From the Courts, News
November 4, 2025
A teenager, who stole a Corea’s shirt from someone’s clothes line, and wore it in Massy Stores where he allegedly stole more than $100 worth of items ...
From the Courts, News
November 4, 2025
A young man who beat his baby’s mother in her face with a stick, and struck her brother while he was defending her, was remanded pending sentencing. J...
News
November 4, 2025
Leader of the Opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), Dr. Godwin Friday wants the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines to have full confidence in th...
News
November 4, 2025
Persons who want access to a top-class venue for the staging of their events now have access, at a price, to Invest SVG’s newly developed facility on ...
News
November 4, 2025
Madungo, derived from the residue of the arrowroot starch, is more than just food. “It is something steeped in our history, in our society, to which w...
