Sports

The Anguilla Bridge Club which meets on Mondays and Saturdays, at Koal Keel Restaurant, is continuing to emerge as one of the leading sports organistions on the island.

A number of young people on the island are practicing for the Carifta Games to be held in Trinidad and Tobago, in March this year, and for the Leeward Islands Track and Field Events scheduled for Anguilla in April.

The Jerry Mop Stick Cycling Club held its Second Annual New Year’s races for children and grown-ups at Sandy Ground on Monday, January 3. Phillip Richardson, otherwise known as “Chinee”, who is one of the main organisers of the event, said the aim was to promote cycling on the island and to bring back the New Year’s races which took place in the 1960s and 70s.

The National Bank of Anguilla Limited 16th Annual Primary School Football Tournament has ended with the Road Primary School taking first place in both the boys and girls competition.

The Male Windball Cricket Tournament gets into high gear as the Female comes to an end with matches on Sunday, November 28.

The Scotiabank sponsored Kiddy Cricket Competition saw the Road Primary School taking top honours and was the only school unbeaten in the round of matches. The other places were Stoney Ground – 2nd Place; The Valley Primary – 3rd place and the Teacher Gloria Omolulu Institute placed 4th .

Tennis camps for children have been in progress this week at courts at Malliouhana Hotel & Spa, Carimar Beach Club, Temenos Villas, CuisinArt Resort & Spa and at the Webster Park.

Rick Browne, a member of the “Shotters” Basketball Team, left Anguilla on Monday for California at the invitation of the American United Conference of Basketball.

Seven young Anguillians have been in Tortola participating in the Kids and the Sea programme, a boat-racing event, for the Chief Minister’s Cup, sponsored by the Rotary Club there.

The Lil’ Super Stars emerged champions of the 10-day Caribbean Commercial Bank-sponsored Anguilla Female Football League on July 11 at the Ronald Webster Park. The team won with 16 points in the 10-day tournament which generated a considerable amount of interest on the island.

A new generation sleek racing boat was launched at Meads Bay on Monday this week, July 5, to participate in the competitive national sport of boat-racing. What is so special about this boat, No Big Ting, is that it is a 23-footer a new version of the original 15-foot craft which held the championship from 1991 -1993.

The Anguilla Female Football League, sponsored by the Caribbean Commercial Bank, got off to a rousing start on July 2 at the Ronald Webster Park.

A close relationship is building up between young tennis players in Anguilla and Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

The Anguilla Female Football League sponsored by the Caribbean Commercial Bank (CCB) was officially launched at the bank’s conference room on Tuesday afternoon this week.

The Health Authority in Anguilla is engaged in the serious business of providing quality medical and health services for the people of the island.

The West Indies won the second and final Test match against Bangladesh comfortably, but it must have been with a great sense of relief rather than rejoicing that the beleaguered Brian Lara and his not-so-merry men left the Sabina Park field on Monday afternoon. This victory against the lowly Bangladesh outfit was hardly a time to celebrate for a team that has sunk so low in international cricket, but a victory was a victory and they will no doubt take it gladly at a time when anything but a win would have been unthinkable and would most certainly have been the final demise for Brian Lara in his role as West Indies captain.

After having been forced to return from the West Indies tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa last year with a back injury, Anguilla’s talented off-spinning all-rounder, Omari Banks, has fought his way back into the West Indies Test squad for the second Test against Bangladesh beginning at Sabina Park, Jamaica on Friday.

Teams from Anguilla, Antigua and largely from St.Martin/St.Maarten participated in an Anguilla Day bicycle race on Sunday May 30, with eight laps around the George Hill/Blowing Point/Little Harbour area.

A general knowledge quiz, sponsored by American Airlines/American Eagle, was held at Stoney Ground Primary School with participation of all primary school schools.

The Anguilla Tennis Association development programme, involving the training of a large number of children over the past six months, culminated on May 30 with a presentation of awards.