For the second consecutive year, Team Trinidad White has emerged winners of the Nature Island Challenge (NIC), an endurance race.
The 3.0 edition of the NIC, which kicked off on April 13, saw Team Barbados Yellow, USA Blue, USA Orange, Germany Red, and Germany Green along with the champions go through a four fully packed days of activities through the Waitukubuli National Trail (WNT) and to many of the attractions that the country boasts of such as the Middle-Ham Falls, the Fresh Water Lake, the Emerald Pool, and the Sultan waterfall.
They also went through communities such as Scotts Head, Castle Bruce, Portsmouth, Marigot, Kalinago Territory and Bellevue Chopin.
The winners were announced at a cocktail party at the Fort Young Hotel over the weekend.
The team received a cash prize of US$ 3,000 plus a weekend for two for each of the four-man team at the Fort Young Hotel.
In second position,was the Team Germany Red who secured cash prize of US$2,000.
USA Orange came in the third place took home US$1,000.
Speaking at the launch of the event Captain of the Team Trinidad White, Curtis Forde said he was happy to be back in Dominica.
“It’s great to be back!” he said. “Special thanks to Mr. (Colin) Piper for seeing this vision.”
He said they fell in love with the island four years ago.
The following is the result of the challenge:
Team Trinidad White – 245 points
Team Germany Red – 180 points
Team USA Orange – 170 points
Team Barbados Yellow – 140 points
Team Germany Green – 130 points
Team USA Blue – 115 points
Well it goes to show that the D A team is not serious. How can strangers beat you innyour own country allyou to backward.instead of following women practice. Shame on you
What is happening to us Dominicans? You mean we don’t have adventurous Dominicans in Dominica?
I want to see a team from the Police, Fire and Cadet Corps start training for the DA Challenge. I’m sure it would be live on tv, radio and the Net.
I was very disappointed when the host country planned the event and not even one team from Dominica participated, and we are promoting tourism,Why was DA left out? I do not know what happened at the first event,Let me try to visualize something. Did DA took part and they were not treated justly or what? I do not know, I’m just inquiring. This time USA provided 2 teams, while Germany sent 2 teams. We wouldn’t expect a handful of teams from DA but at least 2 teams. There should be some teams from DA practicing long in advance before the starting of the event, running up and down those trails getting themselves prepared to get them fit. Mr Piper, if the ball was in your court, I think that this was a great blunder.How much would it cost Dominica to have at least 2 teams representing DA?
Congratulations Team Trinidad. You have won twice. You should feel proud of that. Are all of you from Trinidad? None from Tobago?
Trinidad is not all together flat. You must have practiced a lot. Of course, you got a chance to run around in the large parks.
Congratulations to the others who won. Happy to know you love D/ca and your stay is an enjoyable one. Dominicans are generally hospitable people. Come again!
I wonder why the Dominica team did not participate?
Congrats to the visitor/trinis for winning again. And good to see the teams are growing, but was disappointed that Dominica did not have a team. Why may I ask?
This is very sad…….. u mean to tell me there is no local team in the competition?? plus i find the cash prize a bit in the low side
Maybe it’s me, but I’m not understanding the logic here. Why isn’t there a Team Dominica in this competition?
If it’s a funding issue, we can “Crowd-Fund” this event on DNO. If three thousand Dominicans each contribute US $1.00 hat’s a total of US $3000.00.
We are experts at marginalizing our own. We complain about our young people on the island, yet we continue to find ways of excluding them from normal society. Discover Dominica and “Colin no Ideas Piper” is a grand waste of time.
We’re in 2015 and the same ideas of “Slavery” persist on the island.
Last time we participated we came in last. Guess they afraid to be embarrassed again
Tell me why would Dominicans need to participate in a competition to Discover their island? Think before you talk. It’s a competition to generate foreign interests to build tourism.
NJ I wonder if you know all of Dominica; in other parts there is always a local team participating so that’s no excuse.
It’s a Dominican competition, therefore a local team is a must. Have you ever heard of Reggae Song Splash without Jamaicans in it?
We have a society with high unemployment and burgeoning crime because there’s nothing to do and nothing to engage our young people. So why not use every opportunity to use the talent that we have and give them something creative, challenging and fun to do.
Congratulations Team Trinidad! Well deserved!
I have to add it’s a shame on Dominica. Any country hosting sporting activities shine. They don’t need to pay for travel, and have a whole year to practice the course, so they have more people to participate and have a better chance of winning. Of course, with such a unique country providing so many unique brains who have no motivation to do anything that requires any effort continues to prevail. And if they decide to participate practice will start one month before. So shame Dominica. I wish I was 21 again to run up all those trails.