by Keith Joseph
On Sunday last, 12 May 2013, the athletics fraternity of St Vincent and the Grenadines joined the family of Lisa Daniel in the final rites for a young woman who devoted herself to becoming an athlete of note in this beautiful country of ours.
Yes! Lisa Angela Daniel is dead and buried.
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 »
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.
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 »
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 »
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