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April 5, 2013
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...
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March 28, 2013
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...
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March 15, 2013
The much anticipated inter secondary schools track and field championships are looming and the buzz is ominous.Certainly, indications are that this ye...
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March 8, 2013
The incidents which led to the St Vincent Grammar School pulling out of the United Insurance Secondary Schools’ Cricket Competition, are nothing sho...
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March 1, 2013
“Going over board” and “sickening” are the only descriptors that can be employed for the ongoing struggle among our track and field coaches. T...
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February 22, 2013
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 ...
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February 15, 2013
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ turn to host the annual Windward Islands schools’ games, has come around again.{{more}} Apart from being great host...
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February 8, 2013
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 ...
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February 1, 2013
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...
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January 25, 2013
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...
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January 18, 2013
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...
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January 11, 2013
The current plight of this country’s self appointed national sporting and cultural mascot, Martian King, shows how quickly someone can shift from si...
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January 4, 2013
The quest to get more females involved in competitive sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines is progressing, with increasing difficulty. Most sportin...
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December 28, 2012
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...
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December 21, 2012
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 ...
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December 14, 2012
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...
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December 7, 2012
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...
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November 30, 2012
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...
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November 16, 2012
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...
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November 9, 2012
The return of Dennisford Foster as President of the Ashburton Sports and Culture Organisation (ASCO) for his 23rd consecutive term, is itself a piece ...
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November 2, 2012
When world football governing body FIFA unveiled its Financial Assistance Programme (FAP) in latter part of the 1990’s,{{more}} it was and still is ...
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October 26, 2012
THE THEME for St Vincent and the Grenadines’ 33rd Independence anniversary is “Celebrating Vincentian national pride”. We seem just to see the a...
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October 19, 2012
The 2012 secondary schools football tournament kicked off last Wednesday afternoon, without much fanfare, as the planned grand opening was rained out....
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October 12, 2012
There were many smiling faces across the Caribbean last Sunday and West Indians the world over were also infected with the joy of the West Indies triu...
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October 5, 2012
Too much of one thing is sometimes good for nothing. This saying holds good for the over-abundance of football competitions that are taking place curr...
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September 28, 2012
Like every individual, organisation, company or corporation, there is always a time for a re-think, an evaluation, a summative test, an assessment or ...
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September 21, 2012
There is an ominous sense that things are getting very toxic among several of our coaches in some of the sporting disciplines here. With St Vincent an...
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September 14, 2012
The decision of the Road Race and Cross Country Commission of Team Athletics SVG to strive for a sub-regional and international component to the Round...
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September 7, 2012
The continued pronouncements by Minister of Tourism, Sports and Culture, Hon. Cecil McKie that the Guinness street football pitch won by Team Crew wil...
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August 31, 2012
St Vincent and the Grenadines is fast becoming an island with a growing list of persons who are certified as coaches in various sporting disciplines.{...
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August 24, 2012
Congratulations are in order for the St Vincent and the Grenadines senior men’s cricket team for pulling off the 2012 Winlott Inc. Windwards Islands...
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August 17, 2012
Vincentians were all glued to their television sets for the past two weeks, immersed in the happenings of the 2012 London Olympics. From the extravaga...
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August 10, 2012
Have the wheels of the wagon of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) fallen off, leaving the chassis to careen to a crash, wi...
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August 3, 2012
The hue and cry of many sporting associations, not only here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), but also across the region, and one may venture, ...
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July 27, 2012
The recent pronouncement by this country’s Minister of Tourism, Sports and Culture Hon. Cecil “Ces” McKie at the St Vincent and the Grenadines F...
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July 20, 2012
Every so often, our youths here in St Vincent and the Grenadines and across the Caribbean are short-changed and, in some instances, failed by our spor...
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July 13, 2012
It may be coincidence or an act of unwitting wisdom that many of this year’s calypsoes and soca songs have a direct correlation to what is happening...
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July 6, 2012
Despite being in the heat of the hectic and sometimes mad Carnival season, life goes on in sports and one cannot drop his/her guard and throw one’s ...
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June 29, 2012
Over time, sports in general has moved away from simply being a past time and recreation to a viable industry, in which some have become billionaires....
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June 22, 2012
The move by this country’s National Olympic Committee to establish a Hall of Fame should at least ignite interest at the wider national level in a H...
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June 15, 2012
Sports go beyond merely one’s performance on the field, in the water, in the air, or on the court, or wherever the event is staged. With the heighte...
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June 8, 2012
For the past six weeks, the Football fraternity here in St Vincent and the Grenadines has been challenged by someone calling himself or herself, James...
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June 1, 2012
From all indications, something has gone fundamentally wrong with the administration of the sport of Table Tennis in St Vincent and the Grenadines. An...
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May 25, 2012
The pistol has been sounded and the race is off for St Vincent and the Grenadines once more to attempt to get a synthetic track for its Track and Fiel...
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May 18, 2012
The sport of Football in St Vincent and the Grenadines was in the limelight last week with the staging of three major events.{{more}} Firstly, on May ...
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May 11, 2012
Setting and attaining high standards in the operation of sports, especially in its administration, sometimes seems unattainable. It is not that it can...
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May 4, 2012
The talk of an indoor sporting facility for St Vincent and the Grenadines seems no longer to be a topical issue among our sporting administrators and,...
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April 27, 2012
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ prolonged absence from the top tier of Caribbean Netball needs to be addressed, and addressed soonest.{{more}} The re...
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April 20, 2012
The announcement of the cancellation of the 2011 National Lotteries Authority National Sports Council’s National Sports Awards is indeed a telling b...
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April 13, 2012
The agreement between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and former West Indies captain, Christopher Henry Gayle, must be taken in the light that bo...
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April 5, 2012
The frequency at which the results of the annual Inter Secondary Schools’ Track and Field Championships are proven wrong and have to be changed poin...
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March 30, 2012
Many have lauded the successful hosting by St. Vincent and the Grenadines of the three One Day International Cricket matches between the West Indies a...
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March 16, 2012
The hosting of the three One Day International Cricket matches between the West Indies and Australia here at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex today, as w...
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March 9, 2012
Whatever the circumstances which led to the late entry of Spartans in the National Lotteries Authority Neil Williams T/20 Cricket Competition, the Exe...
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March 2, 2012
Last weekend, St. Vincent and the Grenadines had a bellyful of sporting activities to dine on, so much so that many persons here did not get to feast ...
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February 24, 2012
The elevation of former national netballer Dellarice Duncan to the post of President of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association complet...
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February 17, 2012
The decision supposedly made by the Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation to host Guyana’s “Golden Jaguars” “her...
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February 3, 2012
The Arnos Vale Sports Complex, its attendant facilities and St Vincent and the Grenadines, as hoped, must have satisfied the inspection team that we w...
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January 27, 2012
During the past two weeks of the West Indies Cricket Board Caribbean T/ 20 Cricket Competition, much was gained as to how to gauge our Cricket in the ...
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January 20, 2012
There is s strong scent coming out of the Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation that things are not the way they should ...
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January 13, 2012
The sport of Tennis here has plummeted to an all time low, and is easily among the minnows of disciplines in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.{{more}} T...
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January 6, 2012
What is gone is gone, and cannot come back, as past is permanent and eternal. So the year 2011 has come and gone in a whiff, with the fast forward mod...
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December 30, 2011
What looks like a plan by world Football body FIF, to reduce the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) to a bunch of mendicants is slowing coming together.{{...
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December 22, 2011
There is always that glimmer of hope when one sees our young sportsmen and women in their exuberance display their God given talents. Such was the cas...
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December 16, 2011
Territorial Development Officer of Cricket in the Windward Islands Irvin Warrican must be a worried man, as must be those who care about the sport in ...
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December 9, 2011
Has the Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association grown tired? Or are they tired of doing nothing? Either question could be ...
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November 25, 2011
Is Bodybuilding a dead sport, having been laid to rest by the Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Amateur Bodybuilding, Power lifting and ...
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November 18, 2011
St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ journey in the Football World Cup campaign has ended, and as it has been for the past five outings of this nature, w...
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November 4, 2011
The decision by the Executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation to part company with its General Secretary Ian Hypolite has se...
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October 28, 2011
The saga of Chris Gayle and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) versus the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has been dragging on for too long n...
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October 21, 2011
The staging of competitions designed for the various firms should not be regarded simply as an activity for employees to get involved in sports.{{more...
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October 7, 2011
The fall off in crowds at local matches has been a bug bear for some time, and answers must be found to redress this. The current system in which the ...
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September 30, 2011
The precedent has been set for the conduct of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) Elections. Without a doubt, the election ...
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September 23, 2011
Affiliates of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation have a major decision to make tomorrow, at the local body’s Annual General Meet...
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September 16, 2011
The 2011- 2012 academic year has begun, and most of the students are in new classes, while many are in new schools, a different environment, but with ...
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September 9, 2011
The upcoming election of a new Executive for the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation is the hot topic, and is burning up the airwaves, ...
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September 2, 2011
Almost every day there is a hue and cry about sporting facilities; the number, their upkeep, ownership, their inadequacies, location, you name it. No ...
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August 26, 2011
When former President of the then St. Vincent Football Association, Basil “Bung” Cato, over three decades ago, coined the saying: “Soccer, Socce...
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August 19, 2011
In recent times, many of our sporting bodies, and indeed national associations, are finding it difficult to fund their programmes. The norm these days...
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August 12, 2011
Cricket in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, like many other sporting disciplines, seems to be evolving with no determined port of embarkment or port of...
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August 5, 2011
The role of modern sports coaches continues to evolve, as accountability, professionalism and mentorship are being added to what is expected of those ...
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July 29, 2011
This columnist wants to agree with Cecil “Blazer” Williams who writes a column in another newspaper here, in calling for an Athletics track to be ...
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July 22, 2011
The coming on stream of Windsor Park in Dominica as the latest Test Cricket venue in the Caribbean has left our beloved Arnos Vale Playing Field releg...
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July 15, 2011
The merry monarch King Carnival is over, done with for the next ten months or so, so the realities of life are eye balling us. Carnival, that annual n...
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July 8, 2011
At last, President of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association, Godfrey Harry, and by extension his Executive, are waking up and smellin...
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June 24, 2011
The news earlier this week that one of the region’s most powerful figures, Trinidadian Austin “Jack” Warner, has resigned from Football’s worl...
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June 17, 2011
The recent comments by Minister of Sports of Trinidad and Tobago Anil Roberts calling on the regional body Caricom to look critically into the crisis ...