News from the Caribbean:
Six to represent Grenada at Pan American Games
October 7, 2011
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada -- Six competitors will represent Grenada at the Pan American Games starting this month in Guadalajara, Mexico. The competitors will represent track and field, swimming and taekwondo at the Games, which begin on October 14.
Trinidad Olympic bronze medallist in early morning car crash
August 20, 2011
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- According to preliminary reports on Friday, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic bronze medallist George Bovell III was injured in a car accident in Mayaro. A press release from the Ministry of Sport said Minister Anil Roberts...
Guyana minister rebuts newspaper's swimming pool claim
September 6, 2010
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Guyana's Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony has rebutted claims made in a Kaieteur News article of September 4 which claimed that the “The long awaited Olympic-sized swimming pool...
USVI men register personal best time in freestyle relay
July 26, 2010
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico (MCT) -- When the USVI men's 4x400-meter freestyle relay team stepped up to the blocks for the finals at the Central American and Caribbean Games, it was trying to prove that the territory still has some pretty good swimmers.
USVI shooters struggle in Puerto Rico
July 23, 2010
ST THOMAS, USVI (MCT) -- At Camp Santiago, a military base in Salinas, Puerto Rico, living conditions are set up for the thousands of PR National Guard troops who are temporarily housed there.
In pursuit of Olympic gold
April 9, 2004
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (GIS) -- George Bovell III, became the first swimmer from Trinidad and Tobago to set a world record when, in his quest for Olympic Gold, Bovell established a new world record last month.
