St Vincent and the Grenadines was first represented at the Commonwealth Games (then called The British Empire and Commonwealth Games) when they were hosted by Cardiff, Wales, in 1958. At the time the St Vincent and the Grenadines Amateur Athletics Association (then SVGAAA, now Team Athletics St Vincent and the Grenadines) was the national body affiliated to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF). It was common at the time where Commonwealth Games Associations did not exist in their own right to have the governing body for Athletics serve as the representative organisation in this regard. Read the rest of this entry »
Olympism
by Keith Joseph
Football’s precarious predicament
Feb 19
2010
2010
During the current week the international governing body for the sport of Football, (FIFA) sent a consultancy team through the Caribbean on an investigative visit to the respective affiliates relative to assessing their current administrative and technical statuses.
While here the consultants met with the Football Federation as well as several stakeholders to garner information in respect of their mandate. Read the rest of this entry »
Football & Athletics
The two sporting associations that need the national stadium most have suffered the most from the current government in so far as facilities are concerned.
While here to deliver the feature address at the Annual Awards Ceremony of Team Athletics St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Area Representative of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and President of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Area Association (NACAC) of the same institution, Neville Mc Cook, pointed to the fact that St Vincent and the Grenadines joins Montserrat and Anguilla as the only three English-speaking Caribbean nations without a national stadium for track and field athletics. This reality has not fazed the current administrations, which has made more promises to deliver the facility than any previous administration in the history of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Read the rest of this entry »
Even the most cursory examination of the modus operandi of the current government of St Vincent and the Grenadines will reveal what can only be considered a complete failure to appreciate and care for the youths of this country, an absence of any appreciation for the value of sport in national development and a total lack of vision for sport in this country.
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