Jah'kyla Morton secures High Jump silver @Carifta 53
Morton secured second place in the event on Day 3 at the 53rd Carifta Games, currently taking place at the Kirani James Stadium in St George’s, Grenada.
The 19-year-old with a jump of 1.76 meters, also broke the national record.
Jamaica’s Zavien Bernard took gold with a distance of 1.78 meters while Alexandria Komolafe, from The Bahamas, took bronze.
Morton’s win puts Team BVI on the medal count with 1.
Day 2 results
On Day 2, yesterday, Sunday, April 5, 2026, Paul Hewlett ended the Boys U-20 Decathlon in sixth place with a total of 5361 points.
In the Girls U-17 100 meter relay finals, the team comprising Kaeja Creque, Macayla Logan, Sam'asia Leonard, and M'kenzii Crabbe, finished 7th in a time of 49.45 seconds. The team will run in the Girls U-17 400-meter relay finals tonight.
In the Boys U-17 100 meter relay finals, the team comprising Ty'rique Charles, Audony Gangoo, Ethan James, and Shamahni Scatliffe, placed 5th in a time of 42.81 seconds.
In the Girls U-17 200 meters, McKenzii Crabbe qualified for today’s finals with a time of 24.34 seconds, while Sam'asia Leonard ran an unqualifying time of 25.34 seconds.
Ty’Rique Charles also qualified for today’s U-17 200 meters finals in a time of 22.07 seconds. Audony Gangoo, who also competed in this event, ran a non-qualifying time of 22.55 seconds.
Shannia Johnson, who competed in the Girls U-20 200 meters, did not qualify for the finals, running 24.91 seconds.
In the Boys U-20 100 meters, J’Den Jackson ran 21.20 seconds, and Mario Carter ran 21.38 seconds, but neither qualified for the finals.
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27 Responses to “Jah'kyla Morton secures High Jump silver @Carifta 53”
2. Why take so much athletes if they are injured when other potentional athletes were there to make the team.
The boy Frett, Jaheem, Latriel and few others injured.
The entire BVIAA needs to desolved.
Having chucky selecting most of his athletes from his club is dishonest and unfair.
The selection for the under 17 boys relay. The last leg play the fool. Second leg give a great turn over. Last leg didnt run
The starter up go the 3rd leg was good.
Dean greenway. Interview who he wants. He suppose go interview everyone. After there race.
Tkeiya smith never cleared the next height in HJ. Shannia Johnson dead on arrival every year. Bryson look like he did not clear the opening height. The results for u20 girls long jump is poor. Stoutt and Daley. Carter ran a wobbly 400m on Saturday.
Jackson had the most to say in his interview about Bahamas and ran dead last in the 100m final.
Gillings othneal High jump cleared only the 2nd height based on sheet results. Struggle in the last leg of the relay.
A mess, just a mess.
I go to see my godchild run every meet here and who are the top athletes are who were selected for the team. The results don’t lie.
It is obvious that that Chucky guy would have the most athletes on the team because his kids have the results to show. He ain’t got to choose know team the kids results does chose them. Stop behaving like you don’t know that but unfortunately you probably have an athlete that don’t train with chucky and yuh getting personal. It’s a good thing that man have the results and medals to show.
Go to him and have a chat on how his kids do so well instead of coming ion here starting confusion and mess without facts.
Tell me one person who was left home that shouldn’t have
Been down there?
BVIAA doing well for years. Congrats to them for doing what they do without pay. We appreciate you all.
Ayo too messy. Thank God for those meets that we know better.
This young lady has been an honor roll student from primary through high school, and both she and her mother take her education very seriously. It is completely inappropriate to make claims about her academics when you have never seen her transcript and have no factual basis.
Secondly, this was a high-level competition, not a weak field. The reason there were only a few athletes is because the standard was high. In fact, athletes from other countries were jumping at levels where the bar could open at 1.60m in the U20 division—that should tell you everything about the quality.
Before making comments like that, ensure you are speaking from facts, not assumptions
Congratulations to the Team. Continue developing and representing us. Don’t mind the noise. Every year not going to be the same. Don’t be discourage. Keep putting in the work.
Well done Jah’Kyla!
So instead of running on the internet and crying in this comment section maybe you should try to support these children both here when they're training and also when they go abroad to compete.
All of you run to his club because you all want curry favor.
To much politics in this place thats why the BVI team cannot and will not reach anywhere, to much division.
I will go on. That same chucky dishonest one of Coach Barrett athletes who qualified, because he want to have that same by Scatliffe to run the 100m. But it never work out as he plan.
I can go on more
Bystander is right.
Tell Barrett go to BVIAA instead of coming to the internet with misinformation. Barrett got bigger fish to fry with the paedophile in his camp.
Chucky dishonest somebody? Even your keyboard know your talking stupidness. I suggest you go to Chucky since you have so much to say about him. Tell us how that work for you coward typing behind a screen.
For your info Carifta don’t require athletes to qualify. Countries sets standards to see who will meet them and at times will take the top athletes with potential even if they don’t meet those standards that are set. Every country does this.
Lest the sport and development
Watch it, check her, and check the other athletes.
Congratulations!!!!!!!
Instead of all this negativity and tearing down our athletes, let’s talk about something that actually deserves attention.
We had an elected official present at the CARIFTA Games, yet he did not take the time to come over and greet or support the full team. He remained in the VIP section while our young athletes were out there representing the Virgin Islands.
Yes, he had dinner but it was with students attending university in Grenada, not the national team athletes who were there competing.
So the question is how do you come to a major event like this and not acknowledge the very team representing your country?
Mr. Marlon Penn, as the representative for the 8th District, this was unacceptable. Leadership is about showing up for all your people, not being selective about who you engage with.
Right now, it sends the wrong message that some individuals are more important than others.
If we’re going to have discussions, this is what we should be talking about.
Stop bringing down the team and the athletes, and start holding the right people accountable