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Saturday, May 24, 2025

T&T hosting 2025 Carifta Games

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Rachael Thompson-King
774 days ago
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NAAA president George Comissiong

NAAA president George Comissiong

T&T will host 2025 Carif­ta Games.

This, ac­cord­ing to George Comis­siong, pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) on Tues­day, a day af­ter the close of Carif­ta50 in Nas­sau, Ba­hamas over the tra­di­tion­al East­er week­end.

Next year's edi­tion will be held in Grena­da, an­nounced on Mon­day, the fi­nal day of the re­gion­al track and field cham­pi­onships.

Grena­da suc­cess­ful­ly se­cured the stag­ing of the next edi­tion af­ter de­feat­ing T&T, 16-4, in the votes. This will be the third time that Grena­da will be host­ing the Games, fol­low­ing edi­tions in 2000 and 2016. Mean­while, T&T last host­ed in 2005 at Bacelot, To­ba­go.

"The bid re­sult/vote does not cor­rect­ly re­flect what oc­curred," said Comis­siong. "We got Carif­ta 2025."

Comis­siong shared that the de­ci­sion to bid was in­flu­enced by T&T host­ing the up­com­ing Com­mon­wealth Youth Games (CYG) but more im­por­tant­ly by the re­cent ini­tia­tive by the gov­ern­ment to pro­mote ath­let­ics through col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ja­maica. Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion and Min­is­ter of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Sham­fa Cud­joe, were part of the del­e­ga­tion.

"Min­is­ters Cud­joe and Gads­by-Dol­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed in a re­cent study tour to Ja­maica

"While in Ja­maica our bid­ding for 2024 or 2025 was dis­cussed and we agreed to throw our hat in the ring, know­ing quite well that com­ple­tion of the nec­es­sary pa­per­work, get­ting Cab­i­net ap­proval etc was cut­ting it close, hence the op­tion of ei­ther 2024 or 2025.

"The study tour end­ed a few days be­fore Carif­ta start­ed," said Comis­siong who trav­elled from Ja­maica to the Ba­hamas to join the T&T team.

"Both bids (Grena­da and ours) were tabled and sent to mem­bers ahead of the meet­ing. Pri­or to the vote par­ties were asked if ei­ther was will­ing to take 2025 if they didn't get 2024 and I (as pres­i­dent of NAAATT) in­di­cat­ed that we were pre­pared to take 2025....there­by mak­ing the vot­ing process more or less moot."

Comis­siong, who was among the pre­sen­ters dur­ing the medal cer­e­monies at Carif­ta50, added:

"Host­ing in 2024 had the ad­van­tage of rid­ing on the mo­men­tum of host­ing CYG but host­ing in 2025 al­lows for bet­ter plan­ning."


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