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Ollivierre dominates SVGAA Car Sprint
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March 24, 2006
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Automobile Association held a loose sprint event on Sunday 19th in a tributary of the Rabacca Dry River. The 1 km s...
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March 24, 2006
The Franco Construction St David Cricket team is not pleased with the level of officiating in their last RBTT Premier Cricket competition. Franco Cons...
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March 24, 2006
There seems to be a war brewing over what should happen at Victoria Park. As far as the local Football Federation is concerned, Victoria Park is the n...
SVG Contingent Down and Under in Australia
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March 24, 2006
St.Vincent and the Grenadines’ contingent to the XVIII Commonwealth Games in Australia has found the going tough. While expectations of gaining meda...
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March 17, 2006
The re-emergence of Boxing on the sporting agenda here is welcomed. The recovery path of the sport started last January with the election of a new exe...
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March 17, 2006
Javar Francis, Adolph Ottley, Maxine James and Sonia Oliver were the four top awardees, as the Marriaqua Sports Association held its Second Annual Spo...
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March 17, 2006
Minister of Tourism, Youth and Sports, Glen Beache left the state last Friday on his first official trip abroad, to attend the Commonwealth Ministers ...
World Cup Action Goes to Stubbs
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March 17, 2006
Stubbs is a small rural village about ten miles north east of Capital City Kingstown. It is typically Vincentian: laid back with a mixture of modern a...
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March 17, 2006
Visitors, teams, officials, media personnel in St. Vincent and the Grenadines for ICC 2007 will have some cultural entertainment at their disposal. Th...
Golden Girls take on  New Zealanders
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March 17, 2006
This country’s national netball team will take on New Zealand today in their first encounter at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Austr...
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March 10, 2006
Zimbabwe will play seven one-day internationals against the West Indies as their tour schedule is extended to make up for their loss of Test status. {...
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March 10, 2006
Vincentians continue to put an imprint in different spheres of the basketball scene in North America. Making waves in Canada is Shawn Browne. A player...
Arsenal Through after Madrid Draw
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March 10, 2006
Arsenal produced a performance of resilience and desire to send Real Madrid out of the Champions League. Arsene Wenger's side defended the advantage T...
Franklyn Keeps Score Ticking
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March 10, 2006
He has become a veteran in the North Leeward district, but Orville Franklyn does not seem to be giving up his appetite for runs. {{more}} Centuries fo...
Police Capture Marriaqua Netball Title
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March 10, 2006
RSVG Police within two days captured two titles of the Western Union Marriaqua Sports Association Netball Championships. The female officers of the la...
More FIFA dollars for local football
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March 10, 2006
The St.Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) is poised to receive another portion of its annual draw down from FIFA through that body...
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March 3, 2006
Cricket may be returning to the Victoria Park. The facility, which is now in the hands of the National Lotteries Authority, is currently undergoing an...
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March 3, 2006
All athletes in this country’s contingent to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia later this March will be subjected to a comprehensive medical ...
Williams puts fresh focus on basketball
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March 3, 2006
Wayne Williams, newly elected President of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Basketball Federation (SVGBBF), has put the revitalisation of the sport ...
New office opens for World Cup Cricket
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March 3, 2006
Persons who want to know more about what’s happening with the ICC 2007 Cricket World Cup won’t have to go too far from the Arnos Vale Playing Fiel...
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March 3, 2006
New Zealand beat the West Indies by 91 runs in the fourth one-day cricket international at McLean Park in Napier on Wednesday. New Zealand scored 324-...
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March 3, 2006
Former Vincentian, Windwards, Middlesex and England fast bowler Neil Williams remains in an unconscious state at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, af...
Netballers ready to shoot down under
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March 3, 2006
A sixteen member Netball contingent will leave here from March 8 for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. The squad includes Doris McIntosh...
Region Gets More Doping Officers
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March 3, 2006
Caribbean RADO with its by-line “PLAY TRUE” hosted a five-day workshop and conference February 20th to 24th 2006 in association with the World Ant...
Say no to drugs
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February 24, 2006
How often have we heard this warning? It is directed to mainly younger persons and even older individuals. A Barbadian doctor is sending out the advic...
Canouan softball  tourney opens
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February 24, 2006
The 2006 Canouan Softball Competition got off to a splendid start on Sunday, February 12, 2006 at the Canouan Playing Field. Six teams were on parade ...
Million dollar stadium, football’s new home
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February 24, 2006
The persistent call made by the football fraternity for a home for the sport may soon be answered. Minister of Sport Glen Beache said that may not be ...
Victors hunting for five in a row
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February 24, 2006
Victors One have already sent out a warning that they are intent on making it five in a row in the RBTT Premier Division Cricket competition. They too...
More cash sails Bequia’s way
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February 17, 2006
The Bequia Sailing Club now has more funds to prepare for the Annual Bequia Easter Regatta. A cheque of $10,000 was presented by Digicel last Wednesda...
Ballantyne out of Commonwealth Games line up
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February 17, 2006
The speculations are over. It’s official. Pamenos Ballantyne will not be part of this country’s team to the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Austr...
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February 17, 2006
The National Sports Council 2005 Sports Awards Ceremony comes off tomorrow night at the Methodist Church Hall in Kingstown. Sportsmen and women who ha...
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February 17, 2006
Two goals from Emery Bailey were enough to put Fitz Hughes’ New Paradise on top as the new champions of North Leeward Football as they disposed of t...
Stanford Twenty/20 tournament set for July
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February 17, 2006
In their heyday they did not receive much monetary rewards but last week some of the region’s cricket legends representing the Stanford 20/20 Tourna...
Green makes good showing despite Windies loss
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February 17, 2006
Hollis Green of Sans Souci represented the West Indies in the Rugby World Cup Sevens Tournament in Los Angeles last weekend. He played in the matches ...
Lottery donates trophies
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February 17, 2006
Deputy Chairman of the National Lottery Authority, NLA, Brently Williams has called on sporting clubs to support that financial institution. Williams ...