Dominica Sports Division
We welcome you to the Official Website of the Sports Division in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Commonwealth of Dominica. This site seeks to give information on ongoing and past activities of the Sports Division in an attempt to further inform, educate and sensitize stakeholders about matters which concern the work of the Division.
We trust that you will find the information that is found within the pages of this site to be useful and will in turn inform others of this invaluable information resource.
December 2011
Shirley Francis teaches P.E. in Paix Bouche
NBD Primary Schools Football Championship (District qualifiers) (Various Venues in Districts)
Cricket Under 15 Pre-competition training (Various Venues)
Secondary Schools U-14 Netball Championship (Various Venues)
Basketball Development Program in PS (Selected Schools)
Secondary Schools Boys Basketball Championship (SMA)
2012 Secondary Schools Volleyball Championship Under Way
The Opening of the Secondary Schools Volleyball Championship took place this Wednesday 18th January, 2012 in Portsmouth at the Benjamin Park Hard Court from 2:00 pm. For the first time a Ballorama followed the ceremony involving the 2011 Volleyball House Champion Teams of the registered schools.
Below are the current fixtures and Zone tables.
Thursday 12th January 20122011 Secondary Schools Football Championships
A total of eleven (11) schools participated in this year's Secondary Schools Football Championships which was organized and sponsored by the Sports Division. The tournament was played in two phases: 22 matches before the Independence break and 29 matches after the break.
Below are the final results, report and tables from the Championships.
Thursday 8th December 20112011 U-16 Netball Training
Dear Principals,
Please the letter and list below in regards to training for the U-16 netballers for the CNA U-16 Regional Netball Tournament for your attention and necessary action.
We thank for your usual cooperation and assistance.
Wednesday 23rd November 20112011 District Sports Festival Final Results
The Sports Division is pleased to report that the Grand Final of the 2011 District Sports Festival was held on Sunday, November 20, 2011 at the Benjamin's Park in Portsmouth was a huge success.
All eight villages which qualified as finalists from their district festivals were represented by large numbers of participants at this fun filled and competitive event. The finalists were:
- Lagoon - North
- Wood Ford Hill - North East
- Crayfish River/Salybia - East
- Cass O' Gorie - South East
- Pointe Michel - South West
- Tete Morne - South
- Goodwill - West Central
- St. Joseph - West
The teams participated in cricket, rounders, volleyball, football, netball and basketball.
At the end of a very exciting day, St. Joseph took the 3rd place trophy with 1st place in Football and 2nd place in Rounders.
Pointe Michel was 2nd with a win in volleyball and 2nd places in netball and football.
Goodwill took the Championship trophy with 1st places in Netball and Basketball.
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports congratulates the community of Goodwill for winning the title of "Best Sporting Village for 2011" and says thank you to all the participating teams, village and districts sports committees, supporters and all others who helped in one way or the other in making the 2011 District Sports Festival the success that it was.
The full results can be found below.
Tuesday 15th November 2011Press Release: 2011 District Sports Festivals Final
The Sports Division in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports will on Sunday, November 20, 2011 stage the Final of the 2011 District Sports Festivals at the Benjamin’s Park in Portsmouth.
The inaugural festival was held in 2010 and was won by Lagoon.
This year’s final is expected to bring together the eight (8) winners from the District Festivals which were held between May and September 2011.
Each of the eight (8) districts will be represented by the village which emerged as the Champion village from the various district competitions.
The grand final, which is expected to commence at 1:00 pm, will see competition in football, cricket, netball, volleyball, rounders, basketball and athletics.
The overall winner will earn the rights to be called the “Best Sporting Village” in Dominica and will be awarded at the prestigious National Sports Awards carded for April 2012.
At Sunday’s event, trophies will be presented to the winner of each sporting discipline, as well as for the overall 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
The villages to participate in Sunday’s Sports festival are:
- North - Lagoon
- North East - Wood Ford Hill
- East - Crayfish River/Salybia
- South East - Cass O’ Gorie
- South West - Pointe Michel
- South - Tete Morne
- Central - Goodwill
- West - St. Joseph
In 2010, the Sports Division instituted the District Sports Festival as a strategy to rejuvenate sports at the community level while bringing persons together for recreation and socialization.
It was hoped that coming out of the District Sports Festivals, communities would organize themselves into structured sporting bodies which would lead to the establishment of village sports committees and then this would ultimately lead to the formation of Districts Sports Committees.
The Division extends an invitation to the general public to be part of Sunday’s activities and to be present to witness the crowning of the Best Sporting Village in Dominica for 2011.