New FIVB International Continental Beach Volleyball Referee!
From the Sand to the International Stage: Arnel Horne Achieves FIVB Continental Referee Status A proud moment for St. Vincent and the Grenadines Volleyball! 🇻🇨🏐 St. Vincent and the Grenadines continues to make strides in international volleyball, not only through its athletes but also through its officials. Arnel Horne has completed the 2026 FIVB International […]
Association Collaboration Month Commences
Coordinator of Sports & Physical Activities, Roxell John, flanked by NOC General Secretary, Keith Joseph (left) and NOC President, Stephen Joachim (right) in a meeting which kicked off the division’s “Association Collaboration Month”. Meetings are slated to be held with the SVG Football Federation, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association, St. Vincent & the […]
TCC workshop
Salome Ernotte and Keith Joseph. The SVG Cycling Union hosted its BMX coaching course, which commenced on the 9th – 13th of February, with the last day being an exam-filled day at the NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE house located in Villa, Indian Bay. The facilitators of such a course were none other than Salome Ernotte and […]
The SVGOC extends sincere congratulations to Amber Glasgow
Executive member of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee (SVGOC), Amber Glasgow, has completed her Executive Master’s in Sports Management, with her final presentation before the Academic Panel and another before the public, courtesy the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, this week. Glasgow’s Thesis is ‘Developing a Sport Tourism Policy Framework for St […]
Athletes: their care and careers
Many individuals give themselves over to a life in sport. From very early, they are involved in training with a view to learning the requisite skills, train consistently and compete in local, regional and international competitions, representing their respective countries. Often, athletes make a career out of their involvement in sport. The practice of sport […]
Evening Athletics and the challenge of change
Three years ago the physical education teacher at the Bethel High School, Theon Gordon, convinced the principal and staff at the institution that they should be innovative relative to the hosting of the school’s annual athletics championships. The decision was to host the annual event during the hours of 2:00 – 8:00pm. Since then we […]
Getting more out of sport
For the past several years we have advocated that St Vincent and the Grenadines is not yet ready to grasp the immense benefits that can be derived from sport. We are missing out on what is on offer and by the time we catch ourselves we would end up at the bottom of the heap. […]
Getting our athletes to understand sport
For many years we have been developing athlete sin St Vincent and the Grenadines, however we have unfortunately not paid enough attention to getting our athletes adequately prepared, regardless of the sport in which we have sought to engage them. There is a fallacy amongst large segments of Vincentians that the preparation of an athlete […]
Vincentian coaches must understand coaching
We are at the end of yet another year and here in St Vincent and the Grenadines one of the biggest problematic issues remains the fact that the vast majority of our nation’s trained coaches do not yet understand coaching. The single biggest problem for the majority of our coaches is that of periodisation. Most […]
Sport Facilities & Facilities Management in SVG
Over the past several years we have been addressing the matter of sport development in St Vincent and the Grenadines. We have noted, most significantly, that the major problem here is that as yet no government has been able to reveal itself as understanding what constitutes sport development. Despite the fact that successive Ministers of […]