Where Next For Windwards School Games?

This weekend, in addition to following the fortunes of our elite athletes at the Summer Olympics in Paris, France, their younger counterparts were scheduled to have been engaged in multi-sport competition of their own much closer to home.  The Canadian Bank Note/Winlott Inc. Windward Islands Schools Games (WISG), for student-athletes aged 20 and younger, were due to get underway on Saturday at Arnos Vale in neighbouring St Vincent & the Grenadines. That territory, of course, was severely affected by Hurricane Beryl in recent weeks, leading to the cancellation of the youth sports festival. Acting Director of Sports in the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, Clivus Jules told St. Lucia Times that competition venues were, mercifully, largely unaffected. However, the Vincentians were faced with other serious logistical challenges.  “St Vincent & the Grenadines had to make the call because of the passage of Beryl,” he lamented. “Some of the facilities were impacted by the hurricane and although most of the damage was done in the Grenadines, the accommodation is where the struggle really started. “A lot of the room stock in the areas we were using for the accommodation for the Games had to be used to shelter people from...