Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment Dwight Sutherland has joined with the wider sporting community in praising the efforts of the Barbados team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Sutherland offered congratulations to the eight athletes – swimmers Alex Sobers and Danielle Titus, sprinters Tristan Evelyn and Mario Burke, hurdlers Tia-Adana Belle and Shane Brathwaite and quarter-milers Sada Williams and Jonathan Jones – especially considering a COVID-19 interrupted season …
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Let us all join hands as we go on a journey to curtail violence within society, and End Violence Now. That was the rallying call of Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment Dwight Sutherland as he delivered the feature address at the launch of the national anti-violence campaign, End Violence Now, at the Wildey Gymnasium, St Michael, Saturday night. And to begin that journey, the Ministry of Youth is …
Boxing is a way to solve some of the challenges related to deviancy in Barbados, says Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment Dwight Sutherland.Speaking Monday afternoon at the Grantley Adams International Airport to see off a team of young wrestlers for international competition, Sutherland said that boxing as a sport could be used as an avenue for young people in the society to take out their anger.
Olympian Akela Jones continues to cement her place as the best female long jumper Barbados has ever produced and is confident of possibly qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics in Japan.Jones is happy about this latest achievement which for her is a step in the right direction. Last weekend she registered a new national record of 6.80m (+0.2) at the 2021 Chula Vista Field Festival in California and eclipsed her old mark of 6.75m set in 2016.