By George Alleyne
If there was any concern
about the level of Barbados’
athletics development, that
anxiety should have been put
to rest during last week and
the weekend when one youngster
smashed a national record
then broke a new barrier, and
another runner came close to
eclipsing a milestone.
During the American National
Collegiate Athletic Association
2019 Outdoor Track and
field Championships that ended
last weekend, Jonathan Jones
wiped out Elvis Forde’s 1984
Barbados record of 45.32 seconds
in the 400 metres in the
NCAA heats and posted a Barbados
first sub-45 seconds blast of
44.64 seconds for fourth place
in the final Saturday night.
In those same Championships
another young Barbadian,
Mario Burke, ran a time of
10.98 seconds in the 100 metres
heats and appeared set to break
the national record of Olympic
bronze medal winner, Obadele
Thompson’s 9.87 seconds but
fell short with a clocking of
10.06 seconds for sixth place in
Barbados record holder, Jonathan Jones.
Photo by George Alleyne
the final.
Thompson’s national record
has stood since he copped Barbados’
CWI appoints four new
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first Olympic medal in
the 2000 games in Sydney.
During this NCAA event both
Jones and Burke qualified for
the Tokyo, Japan 2020 Olympics
by running below set time
for entry into the games.
Jones, 20, a freshman at University
of Texas, also specialises
in the 200 metres.
Burke, 22, who won a bronze
medal in the 100 metres at 2016
World Junior Championships in
Athletics in Poland, is a University
of Houston senior.
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies
(CWI) has appointed four
non-member (Independent)
members to the Board of
Directors for the two-year
term 2019-2021.
CWI in a news release
announced the appointments
of Michael Findlay,
Attorney Debra Coryat-Patton,
and Dr. Aksah Mansingh
as the final three additions
to the board.
They will join Caribbean
businessman, Imran McScood
Amjad, chairman and
founder of NAGICO, who
was appointed at the recent
Board of Directors meeting
on April 9, 2019.
CWI noted that utilizing
regional technical expertise
and rebuilding stakeholder
relationships were two of the
10 points of the “Cricket First
Plan” put forward by President
Rickey Skerritt and Vice
President, Dr. Kishore Shallow
in the recent CWI election
campaign.
Skerritt had promised that
the four new Independent
directors would all help to
strengthen the CWI Board by
representing rich and varied
backgrounds of cricket and
professional interests and all
with solid corporate governance
experience.
Barbados’
Jones does it
President of Cricket West
Indies, Ricky Skerritt.
Cricket West Indies
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