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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 ...
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December 2, 2005
The 32 teams qualified for football's showpiece in Germany 2006 will know their opponents for the first round of matches December 9. That's when the d...
ITTF coach ends 5-month stint in SVG
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December 2, 2005
The five-month tenure of International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) coach, Ahmed Dawlatly has ended, but his work is expected to continue. Entrusted...
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November 25, 2005
Pamenos Ballantyne returned to customary winning ways last weekend with two consecutive victories. First he ran away with the Eastern Credit Union Gra...
King signs with Oral Roberts University
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November 25, 2005
Shawn King, originally from the Northern Grenadine island of Bequia, is continuing to make a name not only for himself, but indeed, Bequia from which ...
Intermediate School on high
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November 25, 2005
The Intermediate High School has re-affirmed that it possesses the best football talent in secondary schools here. This confirmation came last week Th...
Vincy men back from Digicel trip
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November 25, 2005
KINGSTON, JAMAICA – On returning to the West Indies from their once-in-a-lifetime trip to Australia courtesy of Digicel and in association with Brit...
Clea Hoyte aiming for West Indies cricket spot
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November 18, 2005
Clea Hoyte, voted as the Most Valuable Player of the 2005 Cavalier's national women's cricket competition, is eagerly looking forward to next year's c...
SVG up in tennis rankings
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November 18, 2005
St.Vincent and the Grenadines has upped its rankings on the regional Junior tennis circuit. This country placed fourth at the Caribbean Under-14 champ...
Davis sisters do it for Emmanuel
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November 18, 2005
It may be a case of family business for the Davis sisters of the Emmanuel High School Marriaqua. The combination of Shauna and Shellisa Davis piloted ...
Girls’ High School bouncing back
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November 18, 2005
Girls' High School, regarded as the nation's premiere girls' secondary institution has not been in the final for ten years but played unbeaten this ti...
T&T kicks Bahrain out of World Cup
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November 18, 2005
Caribbean sport lovers will be in for two top class world events. Before the ICC World Cup comes off in the region March 2007, focus will be on the 20...
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November 11, 2005
If the Unity Labour Party is returned to office, sports will be a part of national development. Vincentian Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves made tha...
CAVALIER HONOURS
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November 11, 2005
The top performers in the 2005 Cavalier's National Women's cricket tournament were justly rewarded last Saturday night at a gala function at the Sugar...
Kai Best is SVG’s top junior sailor
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November 4, 2005
Kai Best was the top sailor in the St. Vincent Yacht Club first ever Independence Junior Sailing Regatta held on Sunday, October 30. Under near perfec...
New boat triumphs in Independence race
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November 4, 2005
In last Sunday's annual Independence Day race, organized by the Bequia Sailing Club, all eyes were on the 28-foot "Cloudy Bay", racing for the first t...
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November 4, 2005
The SVG Squash Association Independence Tournament held from October 21 to 26 saw all players from beginners to national champions competing in four c...
Leach latches on to Bequia 5K
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November 4, 2005
Jemmerson Leach, a fourth form student of the Bequia Community High School, won the Bequia version of the Francis Lau Road races series. The 15-year-o...
Vincentians get a bowl for West Indies
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November 4, 2005
by TONY COZIER in Brisbane THERE WAS an odd assortment of West Indian bowlers wheeling their arms over in the nets at the team's practice session at T...
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November 4, 2005
The 2005 OECS NemWil Half Marathon was hosted by the Antigua Athletics Association on Sunday, October 30. The race lived up to its billing. Within a m...
NY Cavaliers Club honours cricketers
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November 4, 2005
Caribbean people have their way about them, whether words or actions reveal it. The word cavalier could in some circles be associated with matters not...
Trinidad and Tobago to face Bahrain
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October 28, 2005
A battle of the minds is waging as Trinidad and Tobago prepares to face Bahrain in a crucial World Cup fixture. The showdown for a place in Germany 20...
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October 28, 2005
Four more teams have advanced to the quarter- final stage of the National Lotteries Authority Top Belair Softball Cricket Competition. CGM Novice, Nar...