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Disappointment is often said to be for the better, but this is not always the case, especially when it occurs with some frequency. So, when once more,...

The decision by the president of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Volleyball Association (SVGVA), Alana Mc Master, to fast-forward the association’...

The recent announcement by Michael Muirhead, the West Indies Cricket Board CEO, that the board plans to meet with the contracted players in August to ...

Year after year, forum after forum, the general talk, as it relates to netball here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), is that there needs to be ...

Whatever are the causes for the delay of the commissioning of the Cumberland Playing Field, the delay is too protracted. Are there some issues unknown...

Over the past weeks, several sporting icons and personalities have taken that inevitable eternal rest. Most recently, in fact, last Friday, the re-now...

The more things change, the more they remain the same, or simply are re-arranged to suit the time. Above all, with change should come some sort of not...

St Vincent and the Grenadines will, in the upcoming months, be the host of a number of sporting events, subregional, regional and international. These...

Finance, inadequate facilities, the lack of technical support, absence of a meaningful national sports policy and the political will to make sports am...

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 ...

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...

Euphoria struck the Caribbean last Sunday, when the West Indies won both the women’s and men’s International Cricket Council (ICC) World Twenty/20...

It should now have become clichéd that almost each time a national representative team leaves these shores on an overseas assignment, on the return, ...

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 ...

This column continues to be vindicated in relation to its weekly commentary, which often makes reference to several happenings on the sporting landsca...

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...

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...

The announcement last Monday by the National Sports Council of the cancellation of the 2015 National Sports Awards ceremony might neither be here nor ...

The young West Indies U-19 team’s first hold of the ICC Youth World Cup last Sunday in Bangladesh must only have been embraced by those die-hard fol...

At most sporting events, there is always that forewarning and often an appeal for discipline to reign throughout the duration of the competitions. The...

The planned introduction of a junior secondary schools’ cricket competition must be a welcomed addition to the local agenda of the sport. It is a ca...

As the local track and field season intensifies, most educational institutions – pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary – are all engaging i...

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 ...

A few of our local sporting associations, namely Track and Field, Cricket, Table Tennis, Football and Basketball, have embarked on grassroots programm...

We should not go into 2016 with the same structure, the same mindset and likewise the corresponding posture in the way the schools’ sports programme...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

West Indies Cricket, through its evolution, became glue for regional cooperation and social advancement for the peoples of the Caribbean. However, the...

If one cuts across the contours of all sporting disciplines practised in St Vincent and the Grenadines, one common denominator is revealed — the pre...

The refurbishing, upgrading and rebranding of the Shrewsbury Swimming facility to the Shrewsbury Aquatic Centre (SAC) could not come at a more opportu...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ‘...

The call by volleyballers to have the second sport court acquired by the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Volleyball Association placed ...

It must have come as some type of relief that St Vincent and the Grenadines’ football has been spared an embarrassment and things are back to normal...

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...

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...

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...

St Vincent and the Grenadines continues to ride the tide of football success with the latest being the Under-23 men’s team reaching the semi-final s...

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...

The advance of this country’s senior men’s football team Vincy Heat to the third round of the CONCACAF Zone of the World Cup qualifiers, has been ...

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...

Whatever unfolds from the ongoing investigations into football’s world governing body, FIFA and its operations, there would be not only a shift in t...

Since entering the fray of football’s biggest show (The World Cup) in 1992, St Vincent and the Grenadines has been part of each four-year campaign. ...

The recent outburst by two of the nation’s most promising athletes – sprint twins Reberto and Reuberth Boyde – must surely have come as a shock ...

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...

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...

The monotonous and frequent pronouncements from some members of the current executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Friends and Family – oops...

Often, when the national sporting configuration is being shaped, discussed and institutionalized, very little attention is paid to Special Olympics (S...

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...

The local Athletics calendar reached its zenith last week Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, with the hosting of the Inter-primary, Inter-secondary and In...

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...

The 2015 Inter Primary and Inter Secondary Schools Athletics Championships set for the Arnos Vale Playing Field next Tuesday and Wednesday have been d...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

It may seem to some that football is the focal point of this column, with some degree of frequency. A casual reader may, therefore, conclude that the ...

A few of this country’s national sporting organizations have found it necessary to host their internal awards and recognition ceremonies. Among thos...

Is the year long football action across St Vincent and the Grenadines too much? Immediately, this column would say no. But what is surely factual, how...

The recent announcement that the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation will be the recipient of US$1.3 million from the sport’s world go...

No matter how much one feigns oblivion or pretends to be callous about the happenings in West Indies cricket, it is almost inevitable that at some poi...

Several events recently have necessitated this week’s focus on aspects of the sport of cricket — locally, regionally and internationally. First up...

The sporting tragedy which rocked the world just over a week ago – the death of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes – was indeed a sad moment. But h...

Every time the youths of this nation foul up in any form, especially in matters pertaining to their social being, invariably, the blame is thrown squa...

The once promising sport of volleyball, which, about two years ago, was a bright spark, seems to have had its energies sapped. At present, volleyball ...

Another national sporting association has dropped the ball, with the latest being the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF). The f...

The reintroduction of some form of competitive football at the primary schools’ level is indeed a welcome intervention at this time. Years of clamou...

In recent times, there have been some reported incidents of violence in sports.While such incidents are not new, it pricks the concern chord, as they ...

Even eternal optimists of West Indies Cricket would now have to concede that the latest saga to hit the regional sport, must be likened to a near deat...

It is now an expectation that St Vincent and the Grenadines’ senior men’s football team will go no further than the second round of the biennial C...

Something seems not to be working with the current configuration of the arrangements to run schools’ sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines.{{...

This column has been forced to highlight what seems to be a growing occurrence, whereby young sporting talents are being exploited. Simply for tempora...

There is no gainsaying that sports anywhere in this world cannot exist without volunteerism. This is against the backdrop that sports is one of the fa...

Yes, the West Indies have washed lowly placed Bangladesh in both the three One Day Internationals and the two tests. But the West Indies was expected ...

The new school year has already started and, of course, there must be bright and beautiful plans for the various sporting disciplines. As usual, there...

For yet another occasion, the issue of the restructuring football at the national level is being discussed. However, the talks are only loud and bello...