VI Life & Style spoke with Don Carlos Hadaway about his passion for bodybuilding. Don Carlos is the owner of LIFT gym, a bodybuilder and personal trainer. How did you get into bodybuilding? At the age of fourteen, a family friend took me to the gym. This was my first time ever being in the […]
No one gave my fellow 60-year old Phillippe Leroy and I the memo that the BVI Triathlon Federation Steelman competition—a grueling Olympic distance event comprised of a 1500m swim at the foot of the airport, followed by a 40K bicycle and a 10K run on Beef Island—had been rescheduled from Nov 10 to 17. That […]
By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway For Long Jumper Chantel Malone, the road to becoming the territory’s first Pan Am Games medalist in its history on August 6 in Lima, Peru, was paved with inconsistency, doubts, frustrations, and a general shredding of her psyche that led to thoughts of quitting and enveloped in tears. Long before […]
by Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway Behind Cleopatra “Cleo” King-DeFreitas’ radiant smile, is a spirit of caring and giving, even though she faced a series of health challenges—a stroke, 19 surgeries and four brain surgeries within three years. In May, she organized Cleo’s Miracle Basketball Tournament, raising funds for underprivileged school children, 10 of whom will […]
By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway Ever since I split two Jamaicans for Carifta Games 400m silver in 1978—the BVI’s first medal— I’ve been waiting for us to have a sprint gold medal in the premier regional U17 and U20 competition, now in its 48th year. Male sprinting has not been our strong point within the […]
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By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway Sailing into the turquoise, pristine waters off White Bay, Jost Van Dyke in mid-January while covering the finish of the 14 miles Painkiller Cup, among the many boats, I saw what looked like a floating house, then spotted the name Ocean Spa. Wait, I said to myself, someone had sent […]
The best plan is having no plan, according to the crew of Delos, a group of marine nomads who traverse the world on their boat and tell everyone their story during a weekly YouTube episode. It wasn’t their intention to accumulate over 300,000 subscribers when the ship took off from its Seattle shores in […]
With glow sticks around their necks, in the form of glasses, on shoes or anywhere they felt fitting, many adults and children from across the island of Tortola, Virgin Islands came together on the evening of April 6th where they took to the streets from Pasea Estate towards Waterfront Drive in support of a worthy […]
