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March 2, 2007
by NALINEE SEELAL 02.MAR.07 SPECIAL BRANCH police are investigating local and international journalists who have been accredited to cover the ICC Cric...
Teams arrive for warm up matches
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March 2, 2007
It has whittled down to a matter of hours before the last of the four teams arrive here for official warm up matches ahead of the 2007 Cricket World C...
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February 23, 2007
Packages sometimes come in threes, and at last Saturday’s National Sports Awards Ceremony, one such package was delivered and unwrapped. Sports Pers...
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February 23, 2007
Cable & Wireless, official sponsor of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 launches its Cricket Essay Competition, under the theme “The Legacy of Cricket ...
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February 23, 2007
23.FEB.07 The 2007 Cricket World Cup will be memorable not only for its historic nature, being the first one ever to be staged on Caribbean soil but a...
Training youths to become better leaders
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February 23, 2007
“Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles in Youth: Your Life, Your Health: Make it Right,” was the theme of a one week training workshop organised by the C...
LOC: KFC Cup final trial event 75 % successful
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February 23, 2007
Despite a number of problems experienced by the Local Organizing Committee while preparing for the Cricket World Cup warm up matches to be held here, ...
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February 23, 2007
A hat trick by Christopher Campbell was the highlight of last weekend’s fixtures in the Masters Over 40’s cricket competition. Campbell captured 4...
Double celebration for Francois
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February 23, 2007
The trail of recognition continued for Lauron Francois last Saturday night at the Peace Memorial Hall, when he was named the 2006 Junior Sportsman. Th...
Lewis reigns as 2006 Junior sports woman
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February 23, 2007
Leanna Lewis is one of the most talented sportswomen that this country possesses. A field athlete, a basketballer and netballer, Lewis has excelled wi...
John: Windwards cannot be written off
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February 23, 2007
President of the Windward Islands Cricket Board Lennox John believes that despite the Windwards continued poor showing at the four-day regional compet...
Diamond’s 2006 Sports Personality
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February 23, 2007
Saska Diamond, the 2006 Sports Personality vows to use her new title as a motivation as she pursues her Law degree at the University of the West Indie...
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February 16, 2007
THE WEST INDIES team for the upcoming Cricket World Cup has been picked, but at press time, it had not yet been officially announced. The selectors sa...
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February 16, 2007
Barbados and the Windward Islands will be locked in battle today for the final spot in the KFC Regional one day cricket finals at the Arnos Vale Playi...
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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...