‘Sports’ Archives
St. Lucia Hosts 21st edition of the Gommier Boat Race
The annual event recognizes and pays tribute to the close cultural ties and official twinning alliance between the town of Gros Islet in Saint Lucia and Saint Luce in Martinique. Organized by the Saint Lucia/Martinique Association and the Gros-Islet Town Council, this year’s race will take place from December 16-18. It will see 8 – 10 [...]
LIME Supports ‘Levern London 2012’
LIME has joined the local business community and the government of St Lucia in endorsing plans to launch ‘Levern London 2012’ to provide star athlete Levern Spencer with support as she prepares to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The ‘Levern London 2012’ project is the brainchild of Levern’s management team and aims to [...]
St. Lucia National Yatching Championship 2011
The St. Lucia National Sailing Championships were successfully held last weekend, June 18 and 19th. The Championships, organized by the St. Lucia Yacht Club and sponsored by IGY Marina took place on Rodney Bay where 17 young sailors between the ages 7-17 took to the sea in their 1 man dinghies to battle high winds and great competition. At [...]
LIME Rewards Blackheart Winners On and Off the Field of Play
The 2011 Blackheart football tournament was one of the most exciting to date, producing a number of upsets and throwing up a thrilling final night of soccer that featured west coast and east coast derbies for the title game and the third-place playoff. At the end of the four-week festival of football, Anse La Raye lifted their first-ever [...]
LIME Supports 2011 Blackheart Tournament
LIME has renewed its support for the annual Blackheart Kashif/Shanghai football tournament. The company is a major sponsor of this year’s championship. At a presentation held Monday at Bay Gardens, LIME Corporate Communications Executive, Terry Finisterre said the company will be contributing a total of $40,000 is cash and kind towards the [...]
Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister Gives Support for Sporting Project – Search for a Star – Saint Lucia
The Prime Minister for Saint Lucia, The Hon. Stephenson King, met last week in the UK during his official attendance at the Royal Wedding, with the founders and organisers of the exciting new sports initiative, ‘Search for a Star – Saint Lucia’, Search for a Star – Saint Lucia takes place in June this year and will provide a maximum [...]
New National Record for St. Lucian Darvin Edwards
Darvin Edwards won his first outdoor competition of 2011 on Saturday under sunny skies in the London district of Battersea. But the 25-year-old also set two new records in the process, entered the world top 15 and the top three in his region, and just missed out on the qualifying height for the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, later [...]
LIME Congratulates CARIFTA Athletes & Organisers
LIME, presenting sponsors of the 2011 CARIFTA Games, the Caribbean’s most prestigious Junior Track and Field Championships, is pleased with the execution of this year’s meet and thrilled with the standard of competition. “The Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association put the Games on at very short notice, and produced a high-quality [...]
Government of St. Lucia Congratulates the Victorious Saint Lucia Under 16 Netball Team
The Government of Saint Lucia and Ministry of Youth & Sports proudly congratulates the victorious St. Lucia Under-16 Netball team following their historic victory in the recently completed Jean Pierre Memorial Under-16 championship held in St Kitts from April 8th to 18th, 2011. Government praises highly the achievement of the team which [...]
Excitement Builds For LIME CARIFTA Games
You can already feel the excitement starting to build across the Caribbean as we look forward to the 2011 LIME CARIFTA Games. The games will be held 23-25 April at the Catherine Hall Sports Complex in Montego Bay, Jamaica. CARIFTA is celebrating its 40th anniversary and I'm sure the organizers are hoping for some bright new medal [...]
