CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, May. 30. 2018 – THE St. Kitts and Nevis Amateur Athletics Association (SKNAAA) will be putting in a bid to have the 2022 CARIFTA Games hosted in the federation, with the Nevis' Athletics Stadium being front runners when it is fully completed.
President of the Association, Val Henry gave SKNVibes Sports an insight during an exclusive interview recently.
While speaking on the sidelines of 2018 Club Championships at the new Mondo Track on Sunday (May 27), Henry revealed that they intend to lobby for the premier junior meet for the Caribbean to be staged on the island.
“The SKNAAA intends to put in a bid for CARIFTA 2022. As president, I have already signaled that to the CARIFTA Congress. Once we are granted, which is very likely, the opportunity to host the CARIFTA Games in St. Kitts and Nevis, who knows where we will have it!”
St. Kitts and Nevis held the event in 2015, and it was revealed earlier in the year that it left the SKNAAA with over EC$1 million in debt.
Most of that has been paid off, according to the president, after the Minister of Sport, the Hon. Shawn Richards intervened.
Henry told reporters that the debt was brought to about EC$400,000.
But the president is firm on the position that the event will be in the federation, and he told this media house that they currently have two options – one on St. Kitts and one on Nevis.
“It [hosting the event on Nevis] is dependent on the Nevis Island Administration if they build that pavilion there then who knows what might happen.”
