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February 16, 2007
by Phil McNulty 16.FEB.07 Freddie Ljungberg and Emmanuel Adebayor struck in extra time to give Arsenal an FA Cup fifth round tie with Blackburn - desp...
Belfongo on course in masters cricket tourney
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February 16, 2007
Belfongo have made it two in a row as they go in defence of the National Masters cricket title. The defending champions beat North Windward by 19 runs...
Poor turn-out at NLA 20/20 competition
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February 16, 2007
The National Lotteries Authority 20/20 softball cricket fever caught a bout of hypothermia one day after its opening. An impressive opening ceremony l...
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February 16, 2007
West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels has denied passing information to a bookmaker before a one-day defeat by India in Nagpur last month. “I have ...
ICC begins Samuels bookie probe
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February 16, 2007
Anti-corruption officials at the International Cricket Council are to investigate claims that West Indies’ Marlon Samuels contacted an Indian bookma...
Browne wants recognition for former cricketers
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February 16, 2007
Manager of the National Sports Council (NSC) Osbourne Browne wants the new structures at the Arnos Vale playing field named after past cricketers and ...
Bascombe to challenge for football presidency
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February 16, 2007
Elections for executive positions of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation are due by May 31, this year, and one person has announced...
Carib Warriors receive $2500 sponsorship
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February 16, 2007
16.FEB.07 With just only one week before the official kick off of the National Commercial Bank Biabou Football league competition, Paradise Investment...
Shawndy shows he is top class
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February 16, 2007
Shawndy St. Hillaire in his Honda CRX outclassed nine other drivers to dominate the first event of the local Automobile Association’s calendar of ev...
National Sports Awards set for tomorrow night
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February 16, 2007
Pride and Patriotism in Sports Thirty nominees are in line for the major categories of the 2006 National Sports Awards tomorrow night at the Peace Mem...
Pollard hungry for the game
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February 16, 2007
Kerion Pollard is happy, ecstatic, overjoyed that he has made it into the West Indies World Cup cricket squad; he is however far from satisfied! “I ...
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February 9, 2007
Twenty -four of the top softball teams in the land are licking their lips as they go after the first prize of $3500 in the National Lotteries Authorit...
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February 9, 2007
With just under four weeks to go before Cricket World Cup warm up matches take place here, the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) said that they are in ...
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February 9, 2007
Desmond Maloney hit the first century of this year’s United Insurance Secondary School’s cricket competition. His 109 not out powered St. Josephâ€...
KFC Cup a test run for LOC
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February 9, 2007
Vincentians will get a taste of what is to come in the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 when the semifinals and finals of the KFC Cup come to the Arnos Va...
Sports Minister disturbed by politics in sport
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February 2, 2007
Minister of Tourism, Youth Affairs and Sports is disturbed by the apparent influence that party politics is having on sports in St. Vincent and the Gr...
Youths take the spotlight
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February 2, 2007
Three youth players were named among the Five Cricketers of the Year. They are Lauron Francois, Darnley Grant and Donwell Hector. The trio, all attend...
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February 2, 2007
The members of Team Athletics St. Vincent and the Grenadines (TASVG), held their first ever Road Race on the island of Canouan on Sunday January 28. A...
Table tennis rolls on
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February 2, 2007
The table tennis caravan rolled in the North Leeward village of Rose Bank last Saturday off loading the various techniques of the sport to the partici...
Crunch time for CWC
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February 2, 2007
Communications officials from the nine Local Organising Committees (LOCs) and ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 Inc. have begun meeting to discus...
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February 2, 2007
It was awards galore, when the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association held its 2006 awards ceremony last week Friday night at the Methodis...
Leacock: Vranes has my support
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February 2, 2007
Those wishing to see the back of Zoran Vranes Technical Director of this country’s football set up will have to wait a while longer. In a show of co...
Vranes’ future still undecided
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February 2, 2007
Four-year development plan for local federation The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation has announced a four year development plan whic...
16-year-old sends signal to selectors
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January 26, 2007
West Indies cricket selectors were given a gentle reminder that there is an emerging talent in the region. Sixteen-year-old Trinidadian opening batsma...
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January 26, 2007
“And, the winner is ...” That will be the sentence that will keep the nominees in high expectation on the night of the 2006 National Sports Awards...
Pamenos eats humble pie
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January 26, 2007
Pamenos Ballantyne was made to eat his words after being soundly beaten in the CLICO Trinidad and Tobago Marathon by the man whom he claimed was not i...
Haiti wins Digicel Caribben Cup
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January 26, 2007
Haiti persevered to win the 2006/2007 Digicel Caribbean football cup. The French Caribbean team silenced a partisan Trinidad and Tobago crowd at the H...
National footballers hang-up boots
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January 26, 2007
A number of the senior members of the national football team Vincy Heat, have announced that the Digicel Caribbean Cup was their last international ap...
Vincy Heat out cold
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January 26, 2007
This country’s national football team Vincy Heat returned home to a lukewarm reception, following a disappointing performance in the 2006-2007 Digic...
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January 19, 2007
Outfit in their spanking new cricket uniform compliments of Sprott Distributors, agents and Distributors of Digicel, the East Bank United Arnos Vale s...
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January 19, 2007
New comers, Progressive Youths emerged champions of the 2006 PESCO 5-a-side league football competition, following a 3-1 win over defending champions ...
Joseph’s delegate of NACAC for CARIFTA Games
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January 19, 2007
Keith Joseph, President of Team Athletics SVG is now in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. He has been appointed the Official of the organizati...
Windwards looking to improve standing
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January 19, 2007
The Windwards will be looking to improve their points standings this weekend in Dominica, when the yface leaders Barbados. The Windwards are last in t...
Ballantyne: ‘All I want is to win’
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January 19, 2007
Will Pamenos Ballantyne end his two-year drought in the Clico Trinidad and Tobago Marathon? Ballantyne, the Caribbean’s premier road racing athlete ...
NLA donates to Football Federation
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January 19, 2007
Members of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation are keeping their hopes high as they prepare to bring back the Digicel Caribbean Cup...
ICC Volunteer Training begins this weekend
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January 19, 2007
Some 275 Volunteers, officially called CWC Vibes, will be involved in a massive training workshop here tomorrow, as the country continues to prepare f...
Accommodation not a major problem
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January 19, 2007
The projected 4100 visitors expected here for the four warm up matches ahead of Cricket World Cup will be accommodated despite the insufficiency of ho...
Vincy Heat at sub zero in cup final
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January 19, 2007
Vincy Heat needed to have conjured up some enterprising ideas last night both on and off the field, if they wanted to challenge for a semi final spot ...