Revisiting talent identification strategies
The St Vincent and the Grenadines National Olympic Committee (NOC) has established what is known as the Grassroots Talent Identification Programme (GTIP) over the past few years. It has taken some time before the programme was understood enough to have affiliates of the NOC take the decision to become fully involved. OriginsIn many respects the […]
Nickie Peters Excellence Rewarded
St Vincent and the Grenadines does not seem to know when and how to acknowledge those who have come through sport to access an education and who have gone on to excel in academic and professional work.We have had Alfie Roberts who made the West Indies team as a relatively young man. He was potentially […]
Interest in Sport waning!
Time to raise the barAt a recent meeting one individual expressed very strong views in respect of the way sport is treated in the school system in St Vincent and the Grenadines. The argument was very simple. The view expressed was that the system seems to be conducting sporting activities merely for the sake […]
WICB shameless in face of Test Fiasco
The embarrassment that is West Indies Cricket continues to tread headlong without any sort of shame among the leadership of the region’s governing body, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).Just when we thought that it was not possible for regional cricket to be further embarrassed we set another record of sorts in Antigua and Barbuda. […]
Caribbean Games 2009 in trying times
With just about five months left before the official Opening Ceremony of the inaugural Caribbean Games the organisers are duly concerned about ensuring that all is readied in time to facilitate a level of competition that meets the requirement of the international sporting community.To the organisers the Caribbean Games 2009 is not any village affair. […]
Challenging times for Sport
Reports indicate that the global economic crisis is extending its tentacles into every sphere of activity in almost every nation. We have seen the loss of employment in every sector by the thousands and soon we shall hear of millions of people having been placed on the sidelines. The impact has already been described as […]
School sports a valued necessity
The recent announcement of the return of sports between the nation’s secondary schools has come as music to the ears of many a Vincentian student and those teachers who value sport. That these sports were stopped for some time served to highlight the lack of foresight on the part of those in authority in so […]
Abundant talent in need of nurturing
The performance of the national Under-20 football in the recently concluded Concacaf competition hosted in St Vincent and the Grenadines speaks volumes about the continued existence of an abundance of talented youths in this country and of the importance of nurturing that talent for the ultimate benefit of the nation.Much has been made recently of […]
National Stadium Mockery Politics
Not so long ago we were told by the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines that serious consideration was being given to the preparations for the national stadium. Indeed, the author seems to recall that when Ortis jack was heading to the University of the West Indies, St Augustine to do his degree […]
WICB’s shameless stature
West Indies cricket has been thrown into a sort of whirlwind that may see the regional organisation going further into bleakness with no end in sight for some time to come. The fortunes of the West Indies Cricket Board has never really been sound but in recent times and with far more public scrutiny into […]