by Keith Joseph
Preparations for the Inter Primary and Inter Secondary Schools Track and Field Championships 2013 began in earnest on Wednesday 13 June with a meeting of the Athletics Sub Committee of the Schools Games Committee.
On Thursday 14 June the St Vincent and the Grenadines National Olympic Committee hosted a gala celebration and dinner at the Methodist Church Hall. In many respects the occasion as historic and marked a significant benchmark in the development of the organisation.
Several attempts have been made over the years to establish a National Coaches Association. For all of the goodwill underpinning the efforts of those who took on the challenge the situation has remained the same. The coaching fraternity in St Vincent and the Grenadines as are divided today as they have ever been; a phenomenon that undermines their very claim to commitment to developing sport and the nation’s athletes in the different sporting disciplines.
In the first part of this Column first carried in The News dated Friday 1 June, we began by taking the long historical look at the need for a stadium and had reached a stage where the new government, accessing power in early 2001, began to give the impression that they understood the needs of track and field athletes and footballers around the country.
In the recent past there has been renewed interest in the provision of a synthetic track on which the Vincentian athletes involved in track and field athletics can be adequately prepared for national, regional and international competitions. Read the rest of this entry »
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