Petra Roach, BTA London, promoting Barbados proudly at the Barbados vs England Netball Match in the UK.

Barbados Rally Club front-runners face thrilling Black Bess finale
After nine hotly-contested rounds of the 2012 Barbados Rally Club (BRC)
Virgin Atlantic Driver¹s and Class Championships, fought out since the
curtain-raiser in March, the chase for the prestigious Champion Driver title
will go down to the wire at

The Friday night lights were burning at the BRFU rugby pitch on the Historic Garrison Savannah as top of the table Scorpions faced off against Renegades on September 28, 2012.
 
International sevens speedster Jae Bowen put the Renegades on the board first, but Scorpions promptly retaliated in kind. The first half was a flurry of

Champion Driver title fight will go down to the wire

Sean Gill and the Simpson Motors/Shell V-Power/Automotive Art/Monster Energy Drink Suzuki SX4 WRC were the class of the field when competitors in the Barbados Rally Club¹s (BRC) 2012 Virgin Atlantic Championship gathered at the popular Black Bess course in St Peter on

Winners of the opening round of the Barbados Rally Club¹s (BRC) 2012 MudDogs Safari Championship back in March, Chris Armstrong and Wayne Clarke (Toyota Hilux), added a second victory to their tally on Sunday (September 16), when they defeated all-comers - and the elements - in the Shelbury Construction September Safari.

  The

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(James Johnson) - Champion of the 29th United Insurance Barbados Open , James Johnson (centre)accepted the winners trophy from David Alleyne (Chief Operating Officer) of United Insurance and Hadley Byer (right), President of the BGA.

(Hall and stollmeyer) - Chief Executive of United

Shelbury Construction September Safari runs off on Sunday

The total number of participants in the Barbados Rally Club¹s (BRC) 2012 MudDogs Safari Championship and the Chefette MudDogs Safari Novice Championship is fast approaching 100, with six new names included on the entry list published today for Sunday¹s (September 16)

The Barbados National Rugby Sevens team recently won the Bowl trophy at the 2013 Rugby World Cup qualifiers held in Ottawa, Canada on August 25th-26th.  

The Bajans started fast with consecutive 19-12 wins over the number one and two seeds in the Caribbean/Mexico region, Guyana and the Cayman Islands respectively.  These historic wins

Please be advised that the RACEDAY of AUGUST 25, 2012 are postponed until SEPTEMBER 1, 2012 due to the Jockeys opting not to ride.
 

The Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) is sending a 10-strong team to contest the Digicel Williams Seaboard Marine International Race Meet at Bushy Park on September 1/2. Andrew King and Paul Vieira will race in the second round of the 2012 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC), facing competitors from the

Jamaica, which last won the Country title in the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship in 2008, is looking to build on its impressive start to this year’s campaign when the Barbados Auto Racing League (BARL) stages the Digicel Williams Seaboard Marine International Race Meet at Bushy Park on September 1/2.
  After a strong

Bushy Park outright lap record-holder Stuart Williams will lead a five-man home team into action when the Barbados Auto Racing League (BARL) stages the Digicel Williams Seaboard Marine International Race Meet on September 1/2. They will face drivers from Guyana, Jamaica and – for the first time at Bushy Park – the Cayman Islands.
  Last

Preparations are in full swing for the Barbados Rally Club¹s (BRC) Summer Nights Tarmac Stages on Saturday, August 11, which brings to an end the two-month break in the Virgin Atlantic Driver¹s and Class Championships . .

. and every point counts for Championship contenders, as the season approaches its climax.

  Entries open

Leslie Alleyne claimed a record-equalling fifth victory in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) longest-standing event, when he won the Sol Go Further 55th Anniversary June Safari at the weekend (June 23/24). Meanwhile, his Navigator in the Simpson Motors Isuzu D-Max, Chris O’Neal, added the 69th name to the roll of honour of the region’s oldest

With the dust barely settled after the record-breaking success of last weekend¹s Sol Rally Barbados 2012, the Barbados Rally Club¹s (BRC) blue riband event, preparations are in high gear for the 55th Anniversary June Safari. Taking the Club right back to its roots in navigational rallying, the event runs off over the weekend of June 23/24.

Key to nationalities (competitor from Barbados unless shown): ENG ­ England; IRL ­ Republic of Ireland; JAM ­ Jamaica; NED ­ The Netherlands; NIR ­ Northern Ireland; RSA ­ South Africa; SCO ­ Scotland; WAL ­ Wales

1st Paul Bird - ENG/Kirsty Riddick ­ SCO (M8-WRC Frank Bird Poultry/Fuchs-Silkolene Ford Focus WRC08), 1m 02m 50.

A record 101 crews from 15 nations are listed on the final running order for this weekend¹s Sol Rally Barbados, the Caribbean¹s biggest annual motor sport International. Based on the results of last Sunday¹s Sol Go Further/Scotiabank King of the Hill, the seeding was published by the Barbados Rally Club today (June 6), in advance of this

Winner of Sol Rally Barbados in 2008 & ¹09, Northern Ireland¹s Kris Meeke has confirmed that he will return to the Caribbean¹s biggest annual motor sport International this year to revisit the event that he once described as ³the best 10 days of my life².

  His victories in the Barbados Rally Club¹s (BRC) premier event were not

For the third straight year, the Caribbean¹s biggest annual motor sport International, Sol Rally Barbados, has attracted a record entry. Between October and the closing date a week ago (May 14), 121 entries were posted on-line at the event¹s official web site ­ www.rallybarbados.bb ­ of which

Lively winds and a heavy afternoon squall made conditions tough on the opening day of the Mount Gay Rum Regatta when 37 boats took to the water in beautiful Carisle Bay. Racing was lively in the competitive J24 Class where Bruce Bailey won the morning race and Neil Burke the afternoon race after both made the most of excellent starts. But the

As entries for Sol Rally Barbados 2012 (June 9/10) closed today (May 14), the last first-timers from Ireland were confirmed as Matt Shinnors and Catherine Levis. Asked how he heard about Sol RB12, Shinnors, whose previous experience includes one outing in the World Rally Championship, said: ³I was raised on a diet of rallying; you couldn¹t but

Kenyans Rommy Bamrah and Harvey Jutley are shortly to make the 17,000-mile round trip from hometown Nairobi to Sol Rally Barbados 2012 (June 9/10) for their first-ever tarmac rally together, and the driver¹s first event outside Kenya. They will miss two local events, but were not going to turn down the chance to replace Harvey¹s UK-based

Rallying the familiar Subaru Impreza WRC S12 in its new livery for the first time, Roger Skeete and Louis Venezia won the Barbados Rally Club¹s (BRC) Valvoline Shakedown Stages on Sunday (May 6) by just under 10 seconds from Trinidad¹s John Powell. On a day of changing fortunes, Skeete won four of the 10 stages, Powell and last year¹s winner

As competitors in the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver¹s and Class Championships prepare for the upcoming Valvoline Shakedown Stages ­ round three of 10 in this year¹s series, to be run on Sunday, May 6 ­ Daryl Clarke and Neil Corbin are the early pace-setters in the Driver¹s title chase, with Sean Gill and Ian Warren leading