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St Vincent and the Grenadines seems to be in a prolonged period of slumber when it comes to positioning itself as a host country for various tournamen...

The executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association must make the move, as soon as yesterday, to strengthen the women’s game here...

Fences are erected to act as separations and lines of demarcation. Whilst these are accepted and plausible objectives, in reality, fences keep people ...

Child Protection in sports has taken on significant importance worldwide, as parents, guardians, relatives and friends have turned their microscopes o...

Almost every Monday morning literally, there is a sports course coming our way. These courses, in the main, target coaches, but there is the spatterin...

Is St Vincent and the Grenadines attempting to maximise the benefits available in sports? Are we exploiting the various opportunities to make sports a...

The sport of Tennis on the Vincentian stage continues to merely meander in existence without much effort being made to change the dance pattern.{{more...

Sports is inherently an holistic undertaking. This should also be so for all the facets of development of the persons who are the centre, the highligh...

The growing popularity of softball cricket here in St Vincent and the Grenadines cannot be snubbed as just transitory and something that will eventual...

It seems that the repeated upheavals in the financial management of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) are being slighted b...

The steady decline in netball in St Vincent and the Grenadines seems to be happening consciously unabated. This downward slippage extends to almost al...

The affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association spoke loud and clear, and last Saturday exercised their voices through the bal...

The inevitable has occurred and the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association has been called to answer the many areas of dis...

The saga of the ineligibility of some players in the recently concluded National Under-13 Community Inter League football championships was rather unf...

Now more than ever must be the most unbalanced time facing the administration of cricket in St Vincent and the Grenadines.{{more}} The current situati...

St Vincent and the Grenadines has once again failed to leave an impression on the annual Junior Carifta Track and Field Games.{{more}} Seen as the pre...

What characteristics set St Vincent and the Grenadines apart from other territories in the wonderful world of sports? Of course - none.{{more}} We do ...

It must be concluded that the 2014 National Lotteries Authority Inter Primary and Inter Secondary Schools’ Track and Field Championships were better...

Can anyone name at least one local sportsman or woman who is a stand out? With no answer, then silence gives consent, therefore, that there is none.{{...

Any time any effort is used in a programme to promote and engender community bonding must all be clutched with both hands.Facing up with the realities...

Call it a conversation, call it a symposium or a congress; call it what you will, but there is need for a national dialogue on sports. But such a conv...

It IS always an exciting time whenever the National Netball Club Tournament opens. The pomp, the pageantry and the colour associated with the occasion...

The Ministry of Education and its attending agencies continue to chop, change and fiddle with the various national schools’ competitions.{{more}} Wh...

There is an ever-growing concern of students entering the secondary school system without the necessary attributes to apply structured training in the...

The withering sport of cricket on the local scene has had another dagger thrown at its throat. The scant response to the long standing United Insuranc...

The mad rush is on once again, as we are into the busiest period for sports of all disciplines in St Vincent and the Grenadines. This is the period wh...

It is an undeniable fact that little attention is paid to the governance issues affecting the development of sports and their respective parent bodies...

As a fresh guard is taken for 2014, resolutions may be made and hopefully, they will be worked on and kept. As in personal lives, sporting oganisation...

Success is relative, but when one looks and analyses the sporting achievements by St Vincent and the Grenadines, one can conclude that it was not a ba...

Congratulations are quite in order for the St Vincent and the Grenadines senior male cricket team for doing the double in the annual Windward Islands ...

Over time, one has seen the relegation in status, of the St Vincent Grammar School and the Girls’ High School, in relation to the various sporting c...

The recent Primary Schools’ Netball Festival must be praised, for at last, some persons, somewhere, woke up and acknowledged that the sport needed s...

With every passing day, the sport of basketball is becoming one of sweat and bouncing ball rather than any structured development. And this paralytic ...

St Vincent and the Grenadines lies at the back of the pack when it comes to attracting persons from across the region or the wider world to attend spo...

Football and its administration must have escaped serious injuries following the outcome of last Saturday’s Annual General Meeting of the St Vincent...

Nothing much can be said about the current National Football Club Championships, other than there are some matches that are being played.{{more}} And ...

Football administration in St Vincent and the Grenadines must be at its worst state in terms of confidentiality and professionalism. This assessment i...

The pantry of sporting personnel who have shown the potential to keep St Vincent and the Grenadines' name in the limelight, first of all regionally an...

Almost every national sporting association across St Vincent and the Grenadines claims that they focus on youth development, and rightly so.{{more}} H...

The creeping dominance of schools and communities from the Leeward side of mainland St Vincent in the various sporting competitions held nationally he...

The St Vincent and the Grenadines Tennis Association was at last able to host its Annual General Meeting - more than two years overdue.{{more}} There ...

The football season is well and truly on, and the plate is overflowing, with main courses and several varieties of side dishes to partake of. Througho...

Much has been said and done about Track and Field here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Much has happened, a lot is happening, but are we satisfied t...

Sports has its own brand of competition, and that is inextricable, as its very nature permits this. On the local sporting scene, there continues to be...

It was inevitable that St Vincent and the Grenadines would continue its poor showing in the regional women’s cricket tournament in Grenada which end...

The drama surrounding regional airline LIAT, its vagaries and inconvenience, over the past weeks, have dealt body blows to many, including some in the...

No one should underestimate the impact which the annual Adonal Foyle Kerosene Lamp Foundation Academics and Athletics Camp has had on local youngsters...

Showtime is once again in full effect as the inaugural Caribbean Premier League (CPL) - the Carnival version of the hit and miss entertainment package...

St Vincent and the Grenadines is set to host two major sporting events from this weekend. The CBN/ Winlott Inc Windward Islands Schools’ Games are s...

Within the past two weeks, St Vincent and the Grenadines has had moments of sporting success that will go down as markers in our local history.{{more}...

Sobriety should now be the order of the day, as many for certain would have been drunk from the spirits of the past week, as this country celebrated i...

The local sporting landscape was given something to jump and wave about earlier this week, when 14-year-old Saffiqua Maloney topped the 13 to 14 femal...

We are living in a time when sporting organizations seem to just spring up, blossom, bear some fruit then wither and die.{{more}} Usually, it is lack ...

Things seem to be going further and further downhill and doing so with breakneck speed, causing us to lose sight of that bigger and more significant p...

The Dellarice Duncan led executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association should at least tap themselves on the shoulder for a bette...

St Vincent and the Grenadines has been afforded the opportunity to host the second edition of the regional Guinness Street Football Challenge, set for...

Sports has always been a social activity designed to provide participants and spectators alike, an opportunity to assemble for times of physical outpu...

It has been almost a year now since Team Crew won the inaugural regional Guinness Street Football Challenge, which gave them the right to erect a pitc...

The proliferation of softball cricket here, mainly the 20/20 format, is an indication of the growing popularity of that aspect of the sport.{{more}} S...

Rethinking, re-energizing and reviewal of the National Inter Community League Football Championships must be part of the agenda of the tournament’s ...

For far too long, many persons here seem to have been enjoying the comfort zone of just taking part in sports as a ritual.There are just a few who hav...

What is the current state of table tennis in St Vincent and the Grenadines?{{more}} Having been in a prolonged mode of dormancy, it seems that the spo...

It is a fact that in St Vincent and the Grenadines, in most sporting disciplines, very little attention is paid to the youth competitions and the deve...

The national Tennis ship ran aground some time ago, and its hull has been left at the mercies of the elements. Therefore, it is high time that the wor...

The time for some intervention to arrest the deepening slide of local cricket, must be now, more than ever, as the positive signs are bleak, almost un...

There will never be a dull moment in the Vincentian sporting sphere, because, as soon one issue is remedied, another emerges from almost nowhere to ke...

Whatever the outcome of next Wednesday's elections of the West Indies Cricket Board, no one expects that there will be anything refreshing coming to W...

The much anticipated inter secondary schools track and field championships are looming and the buzz is ominous.Certainly, indications are that this ye...

The incidents which led to the St Vincent Grammar School pulling out of the United Insurance Secondary Schools’ Cricket Competition, are nothing sho...

“Going over board” and “sickening” are the only descriptors that can be employed for the ongoing struggle among our track and field coaches. T...

The announcement a few months ago of the start-up of a professional Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and the subsequent detailing of the six franchises ...

St Vincent and the Grenadines’ turn to host the annual Windward Islands schools’ games, has come around again.{{more}} Apart from being great host...

The schools’ track and field season is once more upon us. And, everywhere there is a hype, as many students, with a push from their teachers, mates ...

The show of support given to the principal officers of the executives of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Squash Association and the St Vincent and t...

For the past two weeks, the region, and indeed other parts of the world, had an opportunity to see cricket’s form of Russian roulette, in the form o...

The issue of the many sporting facilities will always be a talking point in St Vincent and the Grenadines, whether there are sufficient to provide out...

The current plight of this country’s self appointed national sporting and cultural mascot, Martian King, shows how quickly someone can shift from si...

The quest to get more females involved in competitive sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines is progressing, with increasing difficulty. Most sportin...

The past 12 months have been another agonizing period for those who were hoping to see a lift in performances, attitudes, returns and a general 180 de...

As 2012 comes to an end, the West Indies Cricket Board, the players under its umbrella and the millions of fans of West Indies cricket the world over ...

There was once a time when there were communities stretched across St Vincent and the Grenadines, which were bastions of sports and had a trademark im...

Many of the happenings in sports in our blessed St Vincent and the Grenadines, which are having adverse effects on progress, are in part our own undoi...

It is undeniable that change is constant. However, this is not always accepted, but it is a necessity in going forward.{{more}} Last weekend saw a flu...

The decision taken by the executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation to have nine teams/clubs in the Super Eights of the Natio...