Sports
Sugar Boys are BVIFA Super 6 Football Champions
LONG LOOK, Tortola, VI- Sugar Boys of Virgin Gorda have won the BVI Football Association's (BVIFA) Super 6 Championship, sweeping Lion Heart FC in the best of three finals with a 2-0 win at the FIFA Stadium in Long Look on Sunday, September 5, 2021.
Dr Natalio D. Wheatley to the rescue with working AC @ Sports Complex
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The BVI Basketball Federation (BVIBF) 2021 National ‘District League’ Basketball tournament resumed on Friday, September 3, 2021, at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex on Tortola, following a 2-month pause due to a COVID-19 spike in the Virgin Islands.
National 'District' Basketball League resumes Sept 3, 2021
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After being postponed in early July 2021 due to a COVID-19 surge in the Virgin Islands, the BVI Basketball Federation (BVIBF) National Basketball League will resume with a double header at Multi-Purpose Sports Complex on Friday, September 3, 2021.
Softball players pay tribute to Rene St Clair Jeffers aka 'Panchie'
LONG BUSH, Tortola, VI- In a moving tribute to the late businessman and sportsman Mr Rene St Clair Jeffers aka 'Panchie', who died on August 2, 2021, at the age of 66, former softball player Mr E. Walwyn Brewley said the territory has lost a great man and softball player.
Scrub Island Invitational fishing series returns in September 2021
SCRUB ISLAND, VI – The highly anticipated fishing series, the Scrub Island Invitational, first held in September 2019, will be taking place on September 16-24, 2021, Scrub Island Resort, Spa and Marina has announced.
33 drivers ticketed for not wearing seatbelts on Aug 20, 2021- RVIPF
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Persons driving without seatbelts led among the ticketed traffic offences last week as operations by the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) against traffic violators continued on August 20, 2021.
Grandstand repairs affected by Ellis Thomas Downs lease re-negotiations
DUFF'S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- The re-negotiation of a lease agreement for Ellis Thomas Downs in Sea Cows Bay may be one of the reasons for the delay in the repairs of the grandstand that was severely damaged during the infamous 2017 hurricanes.
VI team defeats home team St Maarten in basketball showdown
PHILIPSBURG, St Maarten- A basketball team from the [British] Virgin Islands were in action at a tournament in St Maarten at the weekend.
COVID-19, Emancipation & Sports/Olympics in VI (British)
Edgar Leonard
All three of these headlines are worthy of their separate commentary. Nonetheless, there is currently a confluence of these issues, so I will take the bold step of taking a collective, cursory peek at all three.
McMaster astonished 47.08 was only good for 4th @ 2020 Olympics
TOKYO, Japan- Virgin Islands Kyron A. McMaster's 47.08 in the Men's 400m Hurdles Final would have ensured him a gold medal if it was the 2016 Olympics. It was; however, the 2020 Olympics and the greatest Olympic 400m Hurdles race ever seen on August 2, 2021 (VI time).
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