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October 6, 2023
The present- day sports media and coverage of sports here St Vincent and the Grenadines are under siege. As it is, the importance of recording sportin...
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September 29, 2023
The announcement last Friday, September 22, 2023, that St Vincent and the Grenadines will be among host countries for the 2024 International Cricket C...
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September 22, 2023
A look at most of our playing facilities across St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) on a daily basis, particularly after 4 pm, would reveal below norm...
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September 15, 2023
St Vincent and the Grenadines is perched at the top of Group C of League B in the2023/ 2024 Concacaf Nations League(CNL). Sitting on six points from t...
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September 8, 2023
The almost unanimous support given to Dougal James at last Tuesday’s Annual General Meeting of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association I...
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September 1, 2023
Next Monday, September 4 heralds a new academic year. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, it is anticipated to be a full calendar, when all school a...
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August 25, 2023
Vincentians and more so lovers of Football, for the next three months, will be on a heavy diet of international Football. This, as the senior male and...
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August 18, 2023
As we near the conclusion of most of the “Summer” Sports Camps, it may be a good time to reflect on the past six weeks or so, when there was no shorta...
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August 11, 2023
As the sport of Football continues to grapple with negative publicity as it relates to violence at matches, whether it is at the national or community...
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August 4, 2023
The 2023 CBN/ Winlott Inc. Windward Islands Schools Games have come and gone. Yes, it did take place in Grenada, July 22 to 29. In essence, the multi ...
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July 28, 2023
Sports Tourism without a doubt has been one of the fastest growing money earners within the global economy. To put its impact into perspective, accord...
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July 21, 2023
Death is inevitable; however, its reality always brings with it moments of sadness, sympathy, reflections, and soul searching. The same were all part ...
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July 14, 2023
Yesterday, Thursday, July 13, the Parliament of St Vincent and the Grenadines was set to have its first reading of a Bill to amend the country’s laws ...
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July 7, 2023
The announcement last Friday, June 30, by Cricket West Indies that Vincentian, Miles Bascombe, is the new Director of Cricket for Cricket West Indies ...
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June 30, 2023
Is it a big deal should the West Indies not qualify for the International Cricket Council’s World Cup? Apparently, whether or not they do, it seems he...
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June 23, 2023
St Vincent and the Grenadines, for the next two months will be host to at least three major sporting events, namely Cricket West Indies Under-19 tourn...
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June 16, 2023
The current landscape of the various sporting disciplines practised here, would show trig points erected on some high ground while others are on flat ...
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June 9, 2023
The 2023 Bank of SVG National Netball Tournament is done and dusted. More so, this year’s edition was a welcomed return in a wholesome way, after 2019...
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June 2, 2023
Over 200 Vincentians were part of a contingent that in some way contributed to the 2023 hosting of the Whitsuntide Games at the Kirani James Athletics...
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May 26, 2023
For several decades now, St Vincent and the Grenadines has been churning out persons who have used the combination of their academics and sporting pro...
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May 19, 2023
The announcement by the National Sports Council to close Sion Hill, Arnos Vale One and Two, as well as the Stubbs Playing Fields has dealt a severe bl...
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May 12, 2023
Given the current state of our Football, it is time to up our game. This is against the backdrop based on some happenings of the Premier Division of t...
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May 5, 2023
Over the past two weeks, one of the topical issues making the rounds in the Vincentian sporting circles, has been national female athlete, Shafiqua Ma...
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April 28, 2023
The fifth edition of the Dream 11 Vincy Premier League (VPL) T/10 cricket competition has come and gone, but has left a sweet taste in many people’s m...
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April 21, 2023
St Vincent and the Grenadines continues to hold its own regionally in Swimming at the Carifta Aquatic Championships, and in the Track and Field scene,...
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April 14, 2023
As promised, after looking at the glows at the staging of the 2023 National Lotteries Authority Inter- Primary Schools Athletics Championships (IPSAC)...
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April 6, 2023
The finals of the National Lotteries Authority Inter-Primary Schools Athletics Championships (IPSAC), and the Inter-Secondary Schools Athletics Champi...
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March 31, 2023
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Senior Men’s Football team’s campaign in the Concacaf Nations League, is over. But most significantly, the team which r...
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March 24, 2023
Amidst the bright sunshine, resplendent attire of the teams, the pomp and panache that heralded the return of the National Netball Tournament in a who...
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March 17, 2023
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Track and Field season is into overdrive. This, as the marquee events of the schools’ calendar, namely the finals of th...
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March 10, 2023
The decision of Vincentian, Dr Kishore Shallow to put his hand up and enter the leadership race of Cricket West Indies (CWI), has to be a well calcula...
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March 3, 2023
A release last Saturday, February 25, stated that the entire Volcanoes Football Club would be debarred from participating in all Football activities o...
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February 24, 2023
The announcement by the secretariat of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation earlier this week, that each of the 27 licensed clubs wil...
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February 17, 2023
Should our sportsmen and sportswomen settle for medals for their performances? Should they hold as their highest honour of achievement to represent St...
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February 10, 2023
THE NEXT PERSON who is elected as President of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association (SVGCA) Inc. will have his work cut out to retrie...
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February 3, 2023
There is not a more hectic, exciting time in the sporting environment of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) than this, the second term of the schools...
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January 27, 2023
News that the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) has been able to secure US $400,000.00 towards the further upgrade of the Brig...
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January 20, 2023
It is an established notion that when persons in positions of clout show enthusiasm and zeal, others on the lower tiers, invariably exhibit the same. ...
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January 13, 2023
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), over the years has stuck the traditional sporting disciplines. As such, we have become locked into those activiti...
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January 6, 2023
There were many issues that confronted sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) for a protracted period. Unfortunately, there seems to be no...
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December 30, 2022
As 2022 closes off, the past 12 months essentially was a period of recovery, as sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) was catching itself...
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December 23, 2022
There cannot be any discounting or undervaluing the role which the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) Sports Programme is playing...
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December 16, 2022
The election of a new executive body last Wednesday , December 14, at the West St George Secondary School’s auditorium, to administer the affairs of t...
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December 9, 2022
The four-year FIFA exercise of the World Cup has been here with us for the past two weeks and counting. Excluding the many side shows that have emerge...
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December 2, 2022
Inevitably, like many other things in life, sports continue to evolve. Slowly but surely, the landscape of the many sporting disciplines is changing t...
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November 25, 2022
The need for a place to call a permanent arena for the hosting of local, regional and international Football matches, is getting louder and louder. Th...
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November 18, 2022
St Vincent and the Grenadines can cash in on an opportunity to sell the country more than it has been done, maximizing the returns from sporting activ...
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November 11, 2022
Officials of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF), must move swiftly and decisively to nip in the bud, any acts of violence d...
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November 4, 2022
When it was made public on Thursday, October 27, 2022 that Karl Woodrow “ Keylee” Williams was named as one of two of St Vincent and the Grenadines’ n...
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October 28, 2022
West Indies’ Cricket must have hit its lowest of all lows in its long illustrious history on Friday October 21, 2022 when the senior male team failed ...
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October 21, 2022
St Vincent and the Grenadines is poised to launch its version of the “ Caribbean Moves”, dubbed “ Vincy Moves”. Essentially, Vincy Moves, like the wid...
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October 14, 2022
St Vincent and the Grenadines senior netballers will begin their quest to gain one of two qualifying spots for next year’s World Cup in South Africa f...
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October 7, 2022
THE COMPLAINS, as well as calls are now bellowing and indeed deafening, for improved lighting at the Victoria Park. The calls though are specifically ...
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September 30, 2022
It is the completion of week four of the 2022/2023 academic year and there seems to be no fervour, zest nor drive to return of a full calendar of spor...
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September 23, 2022
Last Friday, September 16 was a day of rejoicing for the Petit Bordel Secondary School at the formal unveiling of a billboard to recognize an achievem...
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September 16, 2022
St Vincent and the Grenadines stepped up to the plate big time, by hosting the inaugural Americas Male Netball Tournament at the Arnos Vale Netball Co...
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September 9, 2022
As the 2022/ 2023 academic began last Monday, September 5, an air excitement pervaded as that sense of normal operations is envisaged. Unlike the last...
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September 2, 2022
St Vincent and the Grenadines within the past six weeks, participated in four age – group Football competitions starting with the male Under-19 team d...
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August 26, 2022
Is it a case of too little too late, or better late than never, as it pertains to the proposed $EC1,820,394.95, earmarked for repairs to Arnos Vale On...
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August 19, 2022
World Cricket at the moment is in a dog fight over the status of international players, and moreso their commitment to their respective countries. At ...
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August 12, 2022
St Vincent and the Grenadines added another tick to its participation at the XXII Commonwealth Games which took place in Birmingham, England, July 28 ...
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August 5, 2022
With just about a month to go before the 2022/2023 academic starts, there is still no word from the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association ...
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July 29, 2022
Undoubtedly, it is evident that whilst we are still in the pandemic, there is some semblance of sports returning in all its glory and splendour. Indee...
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July 22, 2022
As we grapple with ways and means of bettering our football product here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, this column wants to go on record as saying...
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July 15, 2022
AS THE COUNTRY settled down to recuperate from the Carnival festivities that officially ended July 5, there was no respite nor recovery period for som...
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July 8, 2022
FOR THE BETTER part of two decades there have been incessant calls for a national turn around as it relates to the state of St Vincent and the Grenadi...
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July 1, 2022
The brainchild and subsequently, the organisers of the first St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College’s Sports Awards must be highly commended ...
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June 24, 2022
Criticisms of the state of sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines, are deafening. Spanning a relatively wide cross section of the Vincentian soc...
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June 17, 2022
The recent showing of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Senior Men’s Football Team, Vincy Heat has evoked much discussion as to the state of this coun...
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June 10, 2022
There were some encouraging signs in Vincentian sporting exploits over the past week. Whilst our Senior Men’s Football team, Vincy Heat suffered a hea...
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June 3, 2022
It is no gainsaying that St Vincent and the Grenadines’ senior male football team, Vincy Heat is not in the best place to take on Bahamas, Nicaragua a...
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May 27, 2022
SPORTS IN ST VINCENT and the Grenadines is faced with a predicament, that of leadership. One though has to state up front that the issues surrounding ...
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May 20, 2022
ST VINCENT AND THE Grenadines is fast developing a new industry in sports in which the product is the spin offs of a well- crafted iniquitous culture....
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May 13, 2022
Many Vincentians get excited whenever our young student- athletes get an opportunity to go overseas on scholarships, whether it be partial scholarship...
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May 6, 2022
It is often bandied about that sports in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) needs to get to the next level. The idea of making strides in sports is c...
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April 29, 2022
As St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) returns to some semblances of normalcy after two years of stipulations, protocols, vigilance, dodging and being...
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April 22, 2022
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ participation in the 49th edition of the Junior Carifta Games and the 35th Carifta Swimming Championships in Jamaica an...
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April 14, 2022
The 2022 National Lotteries Authority Inter- Primary Schools Athletics Championships ( IPSAC) and the Inter- Secondary Schools Athletics Championships...
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April 8, 2022
THE DREAM 11 Vincy Premier League (4.0) has come and gone. Congratulations are in order for the organisers who staged another showpiece event that sho...
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April 1, 2022
Next Tuesday, April 5, marks twenty years of my official association with the SEARCHLIGHT newspaper. Ironically, it was not a sports story that ushere...
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March 25, 2022
The fourth edition of the Dream 11 Vincy Premier League(VPL) has started, igniting immense interest. Apart from the prolonged desire for live sporting...
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March 11, 2022
Sports the world over has suffered tremendously for the past two years, as the novel coronavirus has upended almost everything . The ripple effects of...
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March 4, 2022
It must be indeed commendable that the hierarchy of the Windward Islands Cricket Board (WICB) has finally begun to sink their teeth into developing th...
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February 25, 2022
The elation and swift response by Cricket West Indies (CWI) to the 17 West Indian cricketers who landed contracts with the Indian Premier League(IPL),...
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February 18, 2022
It is becoming too bit of a norm for the sport of Volleyball to go through a prolonged period of administrative fallouts , only to get a revival of so...
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February 11, 2022
It is indeed refreshing to know that the Ministry of Education and National Reconciliation has officially given permission for schools, both at the pr...
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February 4, 2022
Many have been harping, and rightly so, about the many fall outs which the sporting community has suffered over the last two years. Lamentations have ...
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January 28, 2022
When the various sporting disciplines here in St Vincent and the Grenadines are assessed, those which cut the cake are the ones which are able to bala...
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January 21, 2022
The decision by the national sporting associations to meet last Saturday at the Hotel Alexandrina to have one voice as it pertains to discuss Covid pr...
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January 14, 2022
The year 2021 has to be the most inactive for St Vincent and the Grenadines, sporting wise. This, as the year was more than eventful for all sectors. ...
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July 4, 2025
The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has been given a high grade for the strides made in education during its term in office, but is concer...
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July 4, 2025
Four contestants who will be competing in the Miss SVG show later this year, made an appearance at the Junior Calypso and Soca Monarch Competition on ...
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July 4, 2025
Vincentian lawyer, Mikhail Charles, has been appointed Honorary Legal Advisor for St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) at its High Commission in the Un...
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July 4, 2025
The Centre for Enterprise Development Inc, (CED) has announced its upcoming Business Pitch Competition, where five dynamic entrepreneurs will compete ...
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July 4, 2025
When Hurricane Beryl tore into Union Island in 2024, it didn’t just flatten homes it upended lives, reshaped communities, and served as another harsh ...
