Guyanese Tiana Springer snatched fairytale gold in the 400 metres while Cayman Islands’ Davonte Howell stormed to a sensational win in the marquee 100 metres to cap a dramatic opening day of the 50th CARIFTA Games on Saturday.
The 16-year-old Springer was part of the Guyana contingent which arrived late for the Games due to travel issues and missed the girls’ Under-17 qualifiers in the morning session at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium.
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Didn’t our coach have high hopes for our athletes?
These guys who are in administration are just going along for the ride. My expectations are very low, but the coachs would like to make us believe they are coming back with a bagful of gold medals.
MEME is precisely right. Dominica is at the derriere end of everything progressive in the English-speaking Caribbean. Roosevelt has delivered black-eye, vicious body blows, left- hooks, right-hooks,uppercuts, to Dominicans.
He has indelibly stained the country’s name. He has severely impoverished more than three-quarters of the population. He has diminished the natural talents and potential of the youthful population. He has obliterated the major industries that once kept the economy buoyant ( agriculture, agro-processing, banking, manufacturing, etc.)
Dominica’s national football, cricket, basketball, netball teams are not even shadows of their former selves. The once vibrant Middle Class massacred. Now the police and the courts are used to bludgeon law abiding citizens to near death.
How can 70 000 inhabitants sit just idly by and watch the slaughter of their country? Dominicans are unique.Most egregious, the local media give this man a free pass.
From 2004 Dominica has NOT had a real Minister of sports. Our playing fields have been occupied and encroached on by a satanic government, and to top it all, our young people are free to have small portion of “ZEB” to smoke. On sports day at our secondary school, only athletes go to participate, other children are at school. This is NONSENSE!! RUBBISH!! SHI.!!!
CHAMPS (in JAMAICA), is the biggest athletic competition among secondary schools in the world. It runs over FOUR days, average crowd 30 000 (students and parents) each day cheering on their athletes. The country must churn out excellent athletes.
We need a total overhaul of the school system here, not just because of sports, but to cater to our local needs.
I was looking at the games, and the Caribbean do have a lot of talented and promising good athletes.
It’s lamentable and hurtful that Dominica is so late in delivering a synthetic track to the youths of this country, although the country has been awashed with money from PASSPORT sales from around 2005. This is a betrayal to the youths.Fire burn those evil leaders who are truncating the youths development.The athletics association need to engage JAMAICA to see how we can get a few young athletes there…Straight from high school young Jamaicans are going professional.
Tina Clayton and Tia Clayton, from Edwin Alleyne High, 200m sensation Brianna Lyston from Hydel High School, Serena Cole (multi talented) from Edwin Alleyne High, Alana Reid Hydel High School, etc, etc..There is something that they can offer us. Let’s go for it! Austrie a government minidter said we are last in everything.Let’s rebuke that, and invest in the young people.