Global sport scandals continue unabated

May 10
2013

Jack Warner resigned from FIFA

During the past weeks the world continued to learn of more sporting scandals the consequences of which remain unknown in the contemporary situation where sport is a multi-billion dollar industry. Read the rest of this entry »

WINLOTT/CBN Windward Islands Schools Games 2013

May 03
2013

St Vincent and the Grenadines has this year hosted what many seem to think was the best organised and executed Inter Schools Athletics Championships of all time. Credit for this success must go to the Schools Games Committee (SGC) of the Ministry of Education, under the leadership of Deputy Chief Education Officer, Beverly Neptune, and the Athletics Sub Committee. The latter started its planning in the final term of the 2011/12 academic year.

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Sports Marketing & our development

Apr 26
2013

In the previous Column dated 19 April 2013 emphasis was placed on reviewing our point of departure with regard to the national sport development process.

In that Column we addressed the importance of Sport for All and Physical Activity as the critical starting point for Vincentians. Read the rest of this entry »

Reviewing our point of departure

Apr 19
2013

Many are the critics who daily trumpet the extent to which we are not making the kind of progress that they would like to see in sport.

More often than not the critics do little research and remain at the level of armchair pundits in this or that sport. They spend much of their time engaging in idle chatter without lifting a finger by way of studied, practical recommendations of the way to effect change. Read the rest of this entry »

The Challenges of selectors and national representative teams

Apr 12
2013

There is hardly an instance of selection of athletes to represent a country at regional and international competitions that does not lead to criticisms from one quarter of the population or another.

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