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Renson keeping it balanced
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May 27, 2005
Renson Haynes, one of the stalwarts during this country’s 2006 World Cup bid, is balancing his sporting and academic interest. Haynes, an ardent soc...
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May 27, 2005
Reigning Northern Grenadines Basketball champions Mustique Icons have showed that they will be a force to reckon in the Sprite/SVG Air Annual Grenadin...
Bequia ballers return from Trinidad tour
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May 27, 2005
The president of the Bequia Basketball Association has described a recent tour to Trinidad as a “success and a wonderful experience for the young Be...
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May 27, 2005
Manager of the C & R Enterprises Sion Hill netball team, Sylvia Clarke is optimistic that her team will regain the sub-regional title in 2006. Clarke ...
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May 27, 2005
Cricket World Cup officials predict that some 100,000 visitors will attend the 51 matches in the 2007 games. This has been disclosed as stadiums in Ba...
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May 20, 2005
Local body builders have two weeks to tone up for the National BodyBuilding and Fitness Championship. That is carded for June 4 at Peace Memorial Hall...
Basketball shoots off in the Grenadines
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May 20, 2005
For the next three weekends, basketballers from five Grenadine islands will compete for supremacy in the third annual Sprite Basketball Grenadines tou...
Ava Rollers rule in Sharpes Soccer
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May 20, 2005
Ava Rollers came out victorious in the just concluded Sharpes Five-A-Side Soccer Competition. They snatched the first place position over second place...
Winning streak breaks at Arnos Vale
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May 20, 2005
West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul is hoping that his squad finds the formula to reverse the trend, which has captivated them. The debacle has...
Toney stripped of  boxing title
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May 13, 2005
James Toney has been stripped of his WBA heavyweight title victory after failing a post-fight drug test. The American beat John Ruiz on points on 30 A...
Bobb hits English League
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May 13, 2005
Vincentian leg spinning allrounder Alston Bobb will get a chance to improve his cricketing skills with a stint on the English circuit. Bobb will be li...
• Windies misses chance for series win
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May 13, 2005
South Africa's Charl Langeveldt took a dramatic hat-trick in the last over in Barbados to clinch a one-day series victory over West Indies. With four ...
Sion Hill to defend OECS championship
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May 13, 2005
C & R Enterprises Sion Hill will carry the banner for St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the Eastern Caribbean Group of Companies Champion of Champions...
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May 13, 2005
The Division One league title of the Cable and Wireless National Netball is safely in the hands of C & R Enterprises Sion Hill . The reigning OECS clu...
Hooper, Stapleton blaze
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May 6, 2005
Two centuries were added to the Vinlec North Leeward Senior Cricket Tournament last Sunday. One came from the prolific Sheldon Hooper. He plundered th...
Retired Keeper fires parting shot at Lara
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May 6, 2005
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AFP) - Recently retired West Indies wicketkeeper/batsman Ridley Jacobs left no stone unturned as he slammed the state of West Indi...
Kineke qualifies for NCAA regional
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May 6, 2005
Kineke Alexander continued to show form and fitness over the weekend producing at the 96th Annual Drake Relay. In a special heat of the 400 meter open...
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May 6, 2005
At the close of the 2005 National Squash Championships played from April 25-30, all the individual titles were successfully defended, except in one in...
Tight security for Arnos Valle field
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May 6, 2005
The organisational skills of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association will be put to the test during the first Digicel One-Day Internati...
Volleyball Spiking
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May 6, 2005
The sport of Volleyball has been spiking with renewed tenacity in recent times. Dormant for a few years, the efforts of a Steering Committee headed by...
Basketballs scouts show interest in SVG
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April 29, 2005
Something must be happening in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in basketball. So much so that North American scouts, recruits, and coaches are paying r...
Pamenos runs off with award
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April 29, 2005
Expect to hear the name Pamenos Ballantyne for some time yet. For the 30-year-old Vincentian distance running hero plans to be on the road another ten...
Vincies dominate squash tourney
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April 29, 2005
Team SVG once again dominated the 5th Annual O.E.C.S Junior Squash Championships (April 22-24), winning 5 of the 7 titles up for grabs. The tournament...
Windward Islands  Football kicking again
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April 29, 2005
A proposal currently under study by the Windward Islands Football Federations could see the revival of the competition among the Windward nations. Thi...
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April 29, 2005
Ground staff in the Ju-C First Division Competition seemed to have prepared a perfect pitch that allowed batsmen to show flashing blades last weekend ...
Neverson wrecks Ajuba Two
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April 29, 2005
Andreas Neverson took the spotlight in the Vinlec North Leeward Senior Cricket tournament last weekend. Neverson, a right arm medium pacer, picked up ...
Lara returns to top of ICC batting ranking
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April 29, 2005
Brian Lara has regained the number one position in the Test batting rankings despite West Indies losing their home Test series against South Africa. H...
Windies save Best for last
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April 29, 2005
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - The West Indies cricket selectors have made two changes to the squad for the fourth Test match in the Digicel Home Series agains...
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April 22, 2005
Will the Division One title of the Cable and Wireless National Netball Club Championship change hands for yet another year? The answer to this will be...
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April 22, 2005
St. Vincent and Grenadines' running sensation Kineke Alexander broke this country’s national 400-metres record on the first day of the Mt SAC relays...
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April 22, 2005
Twenty young cricketers have been called in line for possible selection to St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Under 19 cricket squad. {{more}}They are ...
Cyborg wins M6 Group
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April 22, 2005
Vincentian Steve Ollivierre and his co-driver Dr. Perry DeFreitas raced away with 1st place in the M6 group at a one day car racing rally held in Barb...
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April 22, 2005
A century is a worthwhile achievement in any form of cricket. Therefore, Keran Caesar had every reason to be proud when he blasted 117 last week Satur...
Troumaca cricketers fully geared
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April 22, 2005
Being away from home does not necessarily erase images of the place where one grew up. And so is the case with Bernard Providence. A keen cricketer ov...
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April 22, 2005
Richard Morris turned out to be the “Knight of the Green Table,” when the 2005 Vinlec Schools’ Table Tennis championship concluded last Friday. ...
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April 22, 2005
West Indies will be looking to win the third cricket Test against South Africa, which enters its second day today. West Indies coach Bennett King was ...
Justin takes Junior Tennis tittle
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April 15, 2005
Fourteen-year old Justin Gun-Munro, took center court, at the National Tennis Court last Saturday night, as the last serving was made of the Nesquik N...
North Leeward cricket gets Franco help
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April 15, 2005
Perhaps the sponsorship was late in coming, for once they took the field with their Franco Construction uniform, and things seemed to gel for the Nort...