Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles,which lie in the West Indies,at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea,where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.
Ralph Everard Gonsalves is a Vincentian politician. He is currently the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP).
The Regional Four Day Competition,formerly known as the Shell Shield,Red Stripe,Busta and Carib Beer Cup,is the West Indies's first-class cricket competition that's run by Cricket West Indies. In the 2013–2014 season the winner of the tournament was awarded the WICB President's Trophy while the winners of the knockout competition were awarded the George Headley/Everton Weekes trophy. In a few previous seasons the winners of the tournament were awarded the Headley/Weekes trophy. On from the 2016–17 season,the Competition was sponsored by Digicel and was known as the Digicel Four Day Championship. Since 2019–20,the competition has been renamed as the West Indies Championship.
Cricket West Indies (CWI) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies. It was originally formed in the early 1920s as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control,but changed its name to West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in 1996. In November 2015,the Board resolved to rename itself as Cricket West Indies as part of a restructuring exercise that would also see the creation of a separate commercial body. This rebranding formally occurred in May 2017.
The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines national cricket team is a cricket team representing Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and is a member of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control. For cricketing purposes,players from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines generally represent the Windward Islands at domestic level and the West Indies at international level. However,the St Vincent &Grenadines team did appear four times in its own right at List A level in the 2002–03 Red Stripe Bowl,the domestic one day competition. The team had also played as a separate entity in matches which held Twenty20 status and they continues to compete in domestic Windward Islands cricket competitions including the Windward Islands two-day and Twenty20 cricket championships.
In the sport of cricket,the West Indies is a sporting confederation of fifteen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and territories,many of which historically formed the British West Indies. It consists of Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,Barbados,the British Virgin Islands,Dominica,Grenada,Guyana,Jamaica,Montserrat,St. Kitts and Nevis,St. Lucia,St. Maarten,St. Vincent &the Grenadines,Trinidad and Tobago and the United States Virgin Islands. The governing body for the confederation is Cricket West Indies (CWI),which is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC);beneath the CWI are six territorial governing bodies covering different nations and regions of the confederation. The CWI organises the West Indies cricket team,which represents the confederation in international cricket,as well as administering domestic cricket competitions across the West Indies.
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Windward Islands Cricket Board is the ruling body for cricket in the following West Indian islands:Grenada,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica. Although Dominica is geographically part of the Leeward Islands,as it was part of the Windward Islands colony from 1940 until its independence,its cricket federation remains a part of the Windward Islands.
General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 9 December 1974. The result was a victory for the Saint Vincent Labour Party,which won ten of the 13 seats. Voter turnout was 63.2%.
St Clair Leacock is a Vincentian politician. He is an opposition parliament member in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Leacock is also the New Democratic Party Central Kingstown candidate for 2020 Vincentian general election.
Nelcia Robinson-Hazell is a Black Carib poet,community organizer and activist. She has spearheaded the development of policy initiatives throughout the Caribbean on issues regarding gender and indigenous identity. Serving as the president of the National Council of Women of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,she began in the 1980s to change the organization toward political action. Recognizing a need to establish research on the needs of women,she was involved in the creation of both local and regional organizations to analyze and develop information about the socio-economic and political inequalities women faced. She created similar initiatives for indigenous peoples,beginning first in Saint Vincent and then expanding them regionally. Robinson has been involved in international directives including the World Summit for Social Development and the 1995 World Conference on Women,as well as follow-up conferences discussing such issues as poverty,economic empowerment and violence against women. She has served as a civil society representative on the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commissions and as chair of the Commonwealth Women's Network.
Richard 'Ricky' Skerritt is a Saint Kitts and Nevis politician affiliated to the St Kitts and Nevis Labour Party. He held several portfolios in the country's ministry from 2004 to 2015. He has also been closely associated with cricket in the Caribbean and has acted as the manager of West Indies cricket team.
The West Indies cricket team toured England to play three Test matches. The team were originally scheduled to tour the country in May and June 2020. However,the series was initially postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cricket West Indies stated that they would do everything they can to help accommodate the fixtures,including moving the fixtures back or even hosting them in the West Indies. A revised tour schedule,with the first Test starting in July,was proposed at the end of May 2020. The fixtures were confirmed the following month,with the matches all played behind closed doors. The Test series formed part of the inaugural 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship.
General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 5 November 2020. Nomination day was 20 October 2020. The result was a victory for the Unity Labour Party,its fifth in a row;the party won nine of the fifteen seats,gaining one seat. These elections marked the first time since 1998 that the party which received the most votes did not win the most seats and the first time since 1994 that the New Democratic Party won the popular vote.
The Richards–Botham Trophy is a trophy awarded to the winner of Test cricket series played between England and the West Indies. It is named after the former international players Viv Richards and Ian Botham,who played as rivals in West Indies–England fixtures,but were also team-mates at Somerset and good friends. The trophy replaced the Wisden Trophy,which was retired following the 2020 series between the two teams. Prior to the series,it was suggested by Andy Bull in the Guardian that a new trophy should be inaugurated in honour of West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine. Writing in the Times a week later,Mike Atherton proposed naming it the Richards-Botham Trophy instead.
Denis Byam is a Vincentian physiotherapist and former first-class cricketer. He has worked as the physiotherapist for the West Indies cricket team since 2019.
The Australia cricket team toured the West Indies in June and July 2021 to play three One Day International (ODI) and five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The ODI matches formed part of the inaugural 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League. The fixtures for the tour were confirmed by Cricket West Indies (CWI) in May 2021. The Australian cricket team arrived in the West Indies on 28 May 2021,after the majority players had been vaccinated for COVID-19.
Kenneth Randolph Vincent John was a Vincentian lawyer and newspaper columnist. His column "This Week" appeared in national weekly The Vincentian over a period of thirty-nine years.
Benarva Browne is a Vincentian politician. On July 12,2023,she was sworn in as Senator and Minister of Urban Development,Energy,Seaports Administration &Development,Grenadines Affairs and Local Government in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Senator Browne is by profession a Town and Country Planner.
Isai Thorne is a West Indian cricketer.
