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Bequia Easter Regatta marks 25 years
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February 10, 2006
Easter 2006 will see the 25th anniversary of the Bequia Easter Regatta, and the dedicated all-volunteer Committee of the Bequia Sailing Club is hard a...
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February 10, 2006
Local businessman Ormiston ‘Ken’ Boyea believes that the investment of over EC$22 Million on the refurbishing of the Arnos Vale Playing Field will...
SVG squad ready for Commonwealth Games
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February 10, 2006
The names of athletes taking part in this year’s Melbourne, Australia, Commonwealth Games were expected to be released yesterday. On Wednesday, Febr...
Butler is cricketer of the year
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February 3, 2006
Deighton Butler, the St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Windwards and West Indies One-Day medium left-arm fast-bowler is the 2005 Senior Cricketer of the ...
North Windward takes 20/20 title
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February 3, 2006
North Windward are the first winners in the Bottlers Limited 20/20 Cricket competition. They earned the title with a comfortable 31 run win over Centr...
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February 3, 2006
Tomorrow Saturday February 4 sees the handing over of one of 21 “Flicx” move-able cricket pitches to local cricket organizations across the Caribb...
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January 27, 2006
Top seed Roger Federer booked his place in the semi-finals of the Australian Open after a fierce four-set battle with fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko. Th...
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January 27, 2006
The Doris McIntosh led executive of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association was given another term at the helm of netball in the state ...
Adonson Shallow furthers training in Cuba
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January 27, 2006
Junior Male Sports Personality for 2004-2005 Adonson Shallow will soon be going off to Cuba to further his training in shot put, discus and javlin tha...
GREEN ON WINDIES SQUAD
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January 27, 2006
Vincentian Rugby player Hollis Greene is part of the West Indies Squad for the United States leg of the International Rugby Board’s Sevens Champions...
Shane shines at Yale invitational
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January 27, 2006
Vincentian squash player Shane Slater and the Franklin and Marshall men's squash team recorded a perfect 4-0 record at the recently concluded Yale Uni...
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January 20, 2006
With the footballing world focused on this summer’s World Cup Finals in Germany, insufficient attention is being paid to a competition which kicks o...
Busy year for football says Bennett
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January 20, 2006
The extended period of inactivity of national football teams could soon be over as a packed agenda is lined up in the upcoming months for the differen...
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January 20, 2006
Fifty-five players and 15 officials of Trinidad and Tobago’s senior national football team, the Soca Warriors, are in for a pay day for their qualif...
Digicel, Sprotts sponsor cricket team
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January 13, 2006
East Bank, a cricket team that hails from Arnos Vale has received sponsorship from Sprotts Distributors/ Digicel, just in time for the big East Kingst...
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January 13, 2006
SWindward Islands v Barbados  Tanteen Recreation Ground, St. George's, Grenada January 6-9, 2006 (4-day match) Toss: Windward Islands Umpires: G. Gr...
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January 13, 2006
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada- Barbados gained first innings points but were unable to complete victory after trying to make a game of it on the final day of ...
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January 13, 2006
Billionaire entrepreneur Donald J. Trump is looking for 100 golfers to participate in the Trump Million Dollar Invitational, a new, dramatic high stak...
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January 13, 2006
THE WEST INDIES CRICKET BOARD (WICB) has confirmed Jimmy Adams as the new manager for the West Indies Under-19 team for the upcoming International Cri...
Vincy in US World Cup squad
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January 13, 2006
Vincentian Dominic Audian, has made the USA Under-19 cricket team named to play in the Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka this February. The 19-year-old ...
IT’S SOPHIA
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January 13, 2006
Basketballer Sophia Christopher Young undoubtedly has had the greatest impact on this country’s sporting achievements in 2005, earning her Searchlig...
Athletes – Rise to the occasion
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January 13, 2006
SPORTS REVIEW The year 2005 must go down as the year of mediocrity for our local sportsmen and women. Their performances have not lit up the world. Ex...
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January 6, 2006
The Pepsi Sion Hill Football League concludes this weekend with the staging of the two long overdue finals. The Second Division Final pits Vincom Rich...
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January 6, 2006
The CK Greaves/ Metrocint Insurance Christmas Tennis Championships, crowned off a packed 2005 programme for aspiring junior players here. Many used th...
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January 6, 2006
The Windward Islands are hoping for better fortunes when they face Barbados this weekend in Grenada, in their second match of the Carib Beer Cricket S...
Sophia Young heading for record books
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January 6, 2006
Vincentian basketballer, Sophia Young is on the verge of entering the record books in the NCAA championships in the US. The senior player at Baylor Un...
OECS Milo tennis Championships end
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December 23, 2005
St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ tennis base continues to expand. And, the just concluded first ever Milo OECS Junior Invitational Championship was e...
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December 23, 2005
Gideon Labban, certified International Athletics Association Federation (IAAF) Level two coach, is beckoning certified athletics coaches to get active...
TASVG Awards Top Athletes for 2005
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December 23, 2005
The National Sports Council’s 2005 sports awards may be two months away, but Team Athletics SVG has ensured that its athletes are rewarded. As a pre...
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December 23, 2005
The International Cricket Council is determined to stamp out racist abuse at Test grounds after problems during the Australia v South Africa game in P...
Sancho pays little visit
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December 23, 2005
Her name is Sancho Lyttle and she is from Paul Over just outside the heart of capital city Kingstown on mainland St. Vincent. That village is in East ...
Another record for cricket superstar Lara
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December 9, 2005
by Earl W. Robinson At the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 England (243) Australia (172) and South Africa (90) were the forerunners in Test m...
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December 9, 2005
The Milo OECS Junior Tennis Championships will serve off in St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the National Tennis Centre, Villa from December 12. Part...
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December 9, 2005
Australia is to provide a new Aus. $10 million aid package, aimed at fostering sport in developing Commonwealth countries. Announcing the Australian S...
Girls’ High, Grammar School top in tennis
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December 9, 2005
The St. Vincent Girls' High School and the St. Vincent Grammar School dominated the Pepsi Inter-secondary School Tennis Tournament which concluded on ...