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February 6, 2015
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 ...
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January 30, 2015
A few of this countryâs national sporting organizations have found it necessary to host their internal awards and recognition ceremonies. Among thos...
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January 23, 2015
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...
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January 9, 2015
The recent announcement that the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation will be the recipient of US$1.3 million from the sportâs world go...
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January 2, 2015
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...
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December 12, 2014
Several events recently have necessitated this weekâs focus on aspects of the sport of cricket â locally, regionally and internationally. First up...
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December 5, 2014
The sporting tragedy which rocked the world just over a week ago â the death of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes â was indeed a sad moment. But h...
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November 28, 2014
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...
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November 21, 2014
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 ...
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November 14, 2014
Another national sporting association has dropped the ball, with the latest being the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF). The f...
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November 7, 2014
The reintroduction of some form of competitive football at the primary schoolsâ level is indeed a welcome intervention at this time. Years of clamou...
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October 31, 2014
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 ...
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October 24, 2014
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...
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October 17, 2014
It is now an expectation that St Vincent and the Grenadinesâ senior menâs football team will go no further than the second round of the biennial C...
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October 10, 2014
Something seems not to be working with the current configuration of the arrangements to run schoolsâ sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines.{{...
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October 3, 2014
This column has been forced to highlight what seems to be a growing occurrence, whereby young sporting talents are being exploited. Simply for tempora...
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September 26, 2014
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...
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September 19, 2014
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 ...
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September 12, 2014
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...
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September 5, 2014
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...
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August 29, 2014
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...
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August 22, 2014
The executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association must make the move, as soon as yesterday, to strengthen the womenâs game here...
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August 15, 2014
Fences are erected to act as separations and lines of demarcation. Whilst these are accepted and plausible objectives, in reality, fences keep people ...
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August 8, 2014
Child Protection in sports has taken on significant importance worldwide, as parents, guardians, relatives and friends have turned their microscopes o...
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July 31, 2014
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...
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July 25, 2014
Is St Vincent and the Grenadines attempting to maximise the benefits available in sports? Are we exploiting the various opportunities to make sports a...
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July 18, 2014
The annual Windward Islands Schools Games (WISG) are here once more. The multi discipline games are set for St Lucia from July 26 to August 6.{{more}}...
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July 11, 2014
The standard of Cricket in the four Windward Islands has been a cause for concern for some time. But this concern should have gone up a notch, followi...
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July 4, 2014
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...
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June 27, 2014
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...
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June 20, 2014
The growing popularity of softball cricket here in St Vincent and the Grenadines cannot be snubbed as just transitory and something that will eventual...
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June 13, 2014
It seems that the repeated upheavals in the financial management of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) are being slighted b...
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June 6, 2014
The steady decline in netball in St Vincent and the Grenadines seems to be happening consciously unabated. This downward slippage extends to almost al...
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May 30, 2014
The affiliates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association spoke loud and clear, and last Saturday exercised their voices through the bal...
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May 23, 2014
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...
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May 16, 2014
The saga of the ineligibility of some players in the recently concluded National Under-13 Community Inter League football championships was rather unf...
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May 9, 2014
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...
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May 2, 2014
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...
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April 25, 2014
What characteristics set St Vincent and the Grenadines apart from other territories in the wonderful world of sports? Of course - none.{{more}} We do ...
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April 17, 2014
It must be concluded that the 2014 National Lotteries Authority Inter Primary and Inter Secondary Schoolsâ Track and Field Championships were better...
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April 11, 2014
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.{{...
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April 4, 2014
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...
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March 21, 2014
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...
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March 13, 2014
It IS always an exciting time whenever the National Netball Club Tournament opens. The pomp, the pageantry and the colour associated with the occasion...
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March 7, 2014
The Ministry of Education and its attending agencies continue to chop, change and fiddle with the various national schoolsâ competitions.{{more}} Wh...
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February 28, 2014
There is an ever-growing concern of students entering the secondary school system without the necessary attributes to apply structured training in the...
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February 21, 2014
This column has determinedly refrained from engaging any discourse when it came to West Indies Cricket.{{more}} However, the many comments by the lead...
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February 14, 2014
The call is louder, more than ever, for more parents to get into the sporting life of their children.{{more}} This clarion bellowing is being sounded ...
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February 7, 2014
The search for people to administer sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines is fast becoming a more arduous task.{{more}} It is not that there ar...
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January 31, 2014
The more things change, they sometimes do not only remain the same, but often get worse.This cuts across many sectors, with sports not exempted.St Vin...
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January 24, 2014
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...
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January 17, 2014
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...
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January 10, 2014
It is an undeniable fact that little attention is paid to the governance issues affecting the development of sports and their respective parent bodies...
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January 3, 2014
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...
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December 27, 2013
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...
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December 20, 2013
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 ...
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December 13, 2013
Over time, one has seen the relegation in status, of the St Vincent Grammar School and the Girlsâ High School, in relation to the various sporting c...
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December 6, 2013
The recent Primary Schoolsâ Netball Festival must be praised, for at last, some persons, somewhere, woke up and acknowledged that the sport needed s...
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November 29, 2013
With every passing day, the sport of basketball is becoming one of sweat and bouncing ball rather than any structured development. And this paralytic ...
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November 22, 2013
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...
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November 15, 2013
Football and its administration must have escaped serious injuries following the outcome of last Saturdayâs Annual General Meeting of the St Vincent...
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November 8, 2013
Nothing much can be said about the current National Football Club Championships, other than there are some matches that are being played.{{more}} And ...
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November 1, 2013
Football administration in St Vincent and the Grenadines must be at its worst state in terms of confidentiality and professionalism. This assessment i...
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October 25, 2013
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...
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October 18, 2013
Almost every national sporting association across St Vincent and the Grenadines claims that they focus on youth development, and rightly so.{{more}} H...
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October 11, 2013
The creeping dominance of schools and communities from the Leeward side of mainland St Vincent in the various sporting competitions held nationally he...
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October 4, 2013
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 ...
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September 27, 2013
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...
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September 13, 2013
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...
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September 6, 2013
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...
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August 30, 2013
It was inevitable that St Vincent and the Grenadines would continue its poor showing in the regional womenâs cricket tournament in Grenada which end...
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August 23, 2013
The drama surrounding regional airline LIAT, its vagaries and inconvenience, over the past weeks, have dealt body blows to many, including some in the...
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August 16, 2013
No one should underestimate the impact which the annual Adonal Foyle Kerosene Lamp Foundation Academics and Athletics Camp has had on local youngsters...
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August 9, 2013
Showtime is once again in full effect as the inaugural Caribbean Premier League (CPL) - the Carnival version of the hit and miss entertainment package...
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July 26, 2013
St Vincent and the Grenadines is set to host two major sporting events from this weekend. The CBN/ Winlott Inc Windward Islands Schoolsâ Games are s...
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July 19, 2013
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}...
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July 12, 2013
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...
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July 5, 2013
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...
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June 28, 2013
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 ...
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June 21, 2013
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...
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June 14, 2013
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...
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June 7, 2013
St Vincent and the Grenadines has been afforded the opportunity to host the second edition of the regional Guinness Street Football Challenge, set for...
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May 31, 2013
Sports has always been a social activity designed to provide participants and spectators alike, an opportunity to assemble for times of physical outpu...
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May 24, 2013
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...
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May 17, 2013
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...
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May 10, 2013
Rethinking, re-energizing and reviewal of the National Inter Community League Football Championships must be part of the agenda of the tournamentâs ...
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May 3, 2013
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...
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April 26, 2013
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...
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April 19, 2013
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...
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April 12, 2013
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...
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