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Williams providing break for ballers
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April 15, 2005
He is acting president of the Vincentian Basketball Association, a post he was forced into following Atiba Williams’ hasty departure. Basketball, an...
Vranes: Football ready
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April 15, 2005
Technical Director of this country’s football, Zoran Vranes, is bubbling with anticipation and is rearing to put his plans in action. With a program...
Youngsters get Cricket training
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April 15, 2005
St. Vincent and the Grenadines has its owncricket academy, the first of its kind on the island. The National Cricket Academy was launched last Saturda...
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April 8, 2005
The Digicel West Indies Cricket squad has come in for praises from an unusual source. Cable & Wireless the other half of a raging telecommunications b...
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April 8, 2005
With the 2005 cavaliers National Women’s Cricket Competition out of the way, attention is on selection of two squads: the Senior and Youth teams. Th...
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April 8, 2005
Troumaca United made some progress towards the next round of the Vinlec North Leeward Senior Cricket competition with two victories over the weekend. ...
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April 8, 2005
Mitres to clash with Maple Thursday in one of the most anticipated events in the Cable and Wireless National Netball Club competition, comes off next ...
Hoyte: Above the rest
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April 8, 2005
She had the best bowling average of 5.84 which came from 13 wickets for 76 runs. And that has propelled Clea Hoyte to the Most Valuable Player title o...
Lara returns to Windies squad for 2nd test
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April 8, 2005
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - The West Indies Cricket Board has appointed Shivnarine Chanderpaul as captain of the West Indies team for the remainder of the D...
Windies, South Africa start series in a draw
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April 8, 2005
An unbeaten hundred by Jacques Kallis allowed South Africa to bat through the final day of the first Digicel Test against the West Indies to ensure a ...
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April 1, 2005
Interest in the Vinlec North Leeward Cricket Tournament intensifies this weekend with two more matches. Troumaca United will feature in both those enc...
Lewis pushing for excellence in sport
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April 1, 2005
The name Leanna Lewis is fast becoming synonymous with excellence. In the past three months, the 18 year-old St. Joseph’s Convent Marriaqua student ...
Chanderpaul skippers Windies in first test
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April 1, 2005
by CMC BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Regular captain Brian Lara is missing but new West Indies skipper Shivnarine Chanderpaul has no qualms over his assignm...
Rafique aiming for scholarship
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April 1, 2005
Rafique Providence has been going through his paces in athletics for the past six years. From the East St. George district of Choppins, Providence pro...
Shallow returns from CARIFTA
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April 1, 2005
Adonson “Bigs” Shallow has attained what he set out to do at this year’s Junior CARIFTA Games, that is to gain his first medals at these games ....
Community College wins Inter-Collegiate Games
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April 1, 2005
Community College appears to be unconquerable when it comes to Inter-Collegiate Games. Propelled by performances from Victor Ludorum Orando Brewster, ...
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April 1, 2005
St. Vincent and the Grenadines football will be among the first to kick-start the development of a Coaches' curriculum programme under the auspices of...
Cable & Wireless to fund netball again
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April 1, 2005
Cable & Wireless has once again given EC$20,000 toward the financing of the National Netball Championship as naming sponsor. On Tuesday, March 29, Cab...
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March 24, 2005
Three athletes will carry the banner of St. Vincent and the Grenadines at this year’s Junior Carifta Games slated for Tobago over this weekend.{{mor...
Fly yo’ Kite
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March 24, 2005
The Karib Cable Kite Flying competition provided a marvellous opportunity for good old time family picnics at Argyle last Sunday. Many fathers, mother...
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March 24, 2005
It’s almost impossible to divorce controversy from local sporting events. And last Saturday evening, basketball received its second technical in onl...
Dr. Cyrus wants no bitter rivalry in squash
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March 24, 2005
The founder of the game of squash here has urged the need for graciousness in the sport and advised against playing the game “in bitter rivalry.” ...
Tigress wins knock out round
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March 24, 2005
J. G. Tigress proved their championship quality with the Knock Out version to the League title of the 2005 Cavaliers National Women Cricket tournament...
Sophia Young on Sports Illustrated Cover
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March 24, 2005
Vincentian athlete Sophia Young has been included in a Sports Illustrated cover collage, which hit news stands March 18. Young, recently named an All-...
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March 24, 2005
Vinlec North Leeward Cricket on Orville Franklyn 86 propelled his team Enforcers to a four wicket win over Somerset in the Vinlec North Leeward Senior...
Consistency pays off for Emmanuel Mespo
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March 24, 2005
Sheer consistency, has spurred the Emmanuel High School Mesopotamia (EHSM) to take the 2005 United Insurance Secondary School cricket title. The EHSM ...
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March 24, 2005
ST GEORGES, Grenada (CMC) - Grenada's Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell is hoping that "common sense prevails" in the current West Indies cricket impas...
Lara out of final squad
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March 24, 2005
When the West Indies cricket team takes to the field next week Thursday at Bourda Oval in Georgetown Guyana, one of the world’s top drawing cards wi...
Butler among tops in bowling table
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March 18, 2005
Overlooked by regional selectors for possible inclusion in the West Indies team in the upcoming tours to the Caribbean by South Africa and Pakistan, V...
Chatoyer team still king of the roads
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March 18, 2005
Chatoyer Athletics Club continues to rule road relays in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The North Windward Unit once again ran away with the National...
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March 18, 2005
The surname Hooper has been synonymous with cricket at the international level. Everyone is familiar with Carl Hooper however enigmatic his performanc...
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March 18, 2005
Guest Sport Column - by Earl W. Robinson Next Tuesday March 22, 2005, the eight Women’s Cricket World Cup will commence in South Africa at four diff...
First Division teams zoned
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March 18, 2005
Teams in the Ju-C First Division have been put in two Zones. The top two in each Zone will qualify for semifinal matches in the build up for the final...
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March 18, 2005
The 2005 Cable and Wireless National Netball Tournament is into its first week of competition. Forty-one teams will jostle for top positions as well a...
All eyes on Kineke at NCAA
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March 18, 2005
Vincentian star athlete Kineke Alexander is quickly becoming the topic of discussion in US athletic circles. The junior athlete who recently left here...
Trini breaks Johnson’s world 400m record
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March 18, 2005
Trinidad-born teenager Kerron Clement has broken Michael Johnson's decade-old indoor world record for the 400m. T he 19-year-old was competing for the...
C&W defends players sponsorship deal
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March 11, 2005
As the ongoing Cable &Wireless versus Digicel telecommunications dogfight over sponsorship deals continues to divide West Indies cricket Cable & Wirel...
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March 11, 2005
CAC Seniors hit cost snag in Bahamas NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) - The hosting of the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Senior Track and Field Championsh...
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March 11, 2005
The St.Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association (SVGNA) will begin its 2005 Cable & Wireless National Club Championships this Sunday, without on...
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March 11, 2005
The ground has been broken for the construction of a sporting facility at Mt. Grenan. Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves and Parliamentary Representati...