New Zealand’s most successful rally driver Hayden Paddon has today (February 24) confirmed he will compete in Rally Barbados 2023 (June 9-11). The former Production World Rally Champion and winner of WRC Rally Argentina 2016 will be joined by his long-term co-driver and fellow Kiwi John Kennard for the 33rd running of the Barbados Rally Club’s

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is at an advanced stage of planning for the 33rd running of its blue riband event. Four months out from Rally Barbados 2023, which is scheduled for the weekend of June 10/11, the venues for the event’s special stages have been decided, the route outline is close to completion and partnership negotiations are well

Rally Barbados regular Paul Horton of the Turks & Caicos Rally Team debuted his recently-acquired Citroen C3 Rally2 at the MGJ Engineering Brands Hatch Winter Stages on Saturday (January 21), as the UK motor sport season got under way in very cold but sunny conditions. The event was won by John Griffiths in a Ford

Global superstar DJ, Team Boss at Carl Cox Motorsport and self-confessed “petrol-head” Carl Cox visited Bushy Park Barbados earlier this month during a nostalgic trip to the island. After enjoying the St Philip facility’s Karting and Swift Ride Experiences, he gave a wide-ranging interview on various topics from his

Event schedule for the Barbados Sailing Week
 
 
Saturday, 14 Jan
Dinghy Series (10 am at Carlisle Bay)
Race event for the best local sailors younger than 16 years
Remote Controlled Dragon Flite 95 Class (10 AM at Golden Pond)
Remote-controlled boat races
 
 
Sunday, 15 Jan

The Sandy Lane Charitable Trust (SLCT) has been around for over 15 years and their primary mission is – “Helping the under privileged children of Barbados” by whatever means necessary. 
The past two years have been rather challenging for many of us and for the SLCT it was no different. Despite the obstacles, SLCT has remained resilient

Ann Thylen moved to Barbados 10 years ago...Joining Rockley Golf Club was the best thing she did! 
 
What brought you to Barbados and Rockley Golf Club? 
 
Oh, this will be a long answer... 
 
About 10 years ago my husband and I retired and decided to move to beautiful Barbados. 
 
It was a dream

Sporting Barbados caught up with Sean Edey – Royal Westmoreland PGA Golf Professional to find out some insights into Royal Westmoreland Golf Course and Club! 
 
Sean, take us through your golf journey to being the first and only Bajan British qualified PGA Golf Professional? 
 
It is very interesting being the first and

The future of Equestrian Sports in Barbados is looking very bright if the 2022 performances of the Children’s Dressage Team and the youthful Regional Jumping Team are proof ofthings to come. These two winning teams had no rider older than sixteen and although the Regional Jumping Challenge is open to competitors of all ages, three young riders

Barbadian Johnathan Austin is one special young man. Now 19 years old, he has spent a large part of his young life battling a long term chronic condition called Gastroparesis, in which the stomach cannot empty in the normal way. He once lived with a gastric pacemaker in his stomach and has

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has joined motor sport fans the world over to mourn the passing of American motor sport icon Ken Block, who died in a snowmobile accident in Wasatch County, Utah, yesterday (January 2) at the age of 55. A statement from Hoonigan said: "It's with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away in

Barbadian Calem Maloney is the new Caribbean Junior Karting Champion. After three days and 12 hard-fought races at Bushy Park Barbados over the weekend (November 4-6), he defeated Trinidad & Tobago’s Rylie Ramroop by a margin of just nine points, with Jamaica’s Zander Williams a further six behind. The lone female in the 16-strong field of

Seventeen karters aged from 11 to 17 from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago will face off at Bushy Park Barbados next month (November 4-6) in the second Caribbean Junior Karting Academy Trophy (CJKAT). Funded by the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile’s (FIA) Sport Grant Programme, it will be contested by a quality field selected

Trinidad & Tobago’s Zachary Boodram, Fyzool Madan and Ravi Singh will compete in the Radical Caribbean Cup (RCC) for the first time this weekend (October 8/9) as a record-breaking grid assembles for round three at the Fast Parts Caribbean Circuit Racing Invitational. Competing on home ground, they will line up with fellow-countryman and RCC

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) off-road navigational fraternity will remember one of the Club’s stalwarts on Sunday (September 18) when the fourth round of the Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship is named in honour of Philip McConney, whose sudden passing in July was a shock to the whole community

On Saturday July 10, 2022, Rugby Barbados will start the Get Into Rugby programme for children who are under the age of 11 years. This Tag Rugby session will run from 10am to 11am every Saturday at the Historic Garrison Savannah. This is an internationally recognized and certified programme aimed at introducing children to rugby, using a safe

The Barbados Football Association (BFA) last week showed its support for diversity in football by donating goal bars, nets, and protective barriers to a regional blind and visually impaired football workshop hosted by the National United Society of the Blind (NUSB) in partnership with the Blind Football Committee of Barbados.
 
In

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Senior Men’s Selection Panel today announced changes to the West Indies squad for the three-match CG United One-Day International (ODI) Series against New Zealand which starts tomorrow on Wednesday 17 August. All three ODIs will be day/night matches played under floodlights at Kensington Oval

The FEI Dressage World Challenge was held this weekend at the Congo Road Equestrian Center.  The best local dressage riders presented themselves to FEI judges; Jeanne McDonald from Pennsylvania and Omar Zayrik from Mexico for the opportunity to compete on an international scale for Barbados. 
 
The Barbados FEI 2022 Team is:

Peg Farm and Nature Reserve hosted the 2021 version of the BAR 5K Trail Mix, sponsored by the Amarone Charitable Trust. This new venue boasted way more trail, hardly any traffic along the route and all the convenience afforded to the athletes by Peg’s established infrastructure. 
 
‘Wait,’ you say, ‘weren’t we in the middle of COVID

About Run Barbados 
Run Barbados has been a staple on the Barbados calendar of events since its inception in 1983. The 2022 event will offer 2 days of exciting events for the whole family. 
The race routes are all on the spectacular East Coast of Barbados. Fluid stations and toilets along the route as well as Caribbean music! 

Bushy Park Motor Sports Inc (BPMSI) will organise the first race meeting for more than two years on the full International Circuit at the St Philip facility on April 30 . . . and spectators will be welcome. The first round of the 2022 BPMSI Championship will cater for all the club’s usual saloon car Groups and the race programme will also

Someone in high places made a terrible blunder when the Kensington Oval was reduced to a lifeless pitch, similar to Antigua. The Oval used to feature a fiery exchange between batsmen and bowlers, but not on this occasion. The only threat of a winner was in the final two sessions of the 5th day, and the only likely winner was England, as Joe

Clermont, Florida –The Draft Legal Challenge, USA’s launchpad for triathlon’s best talent, saw six emerging athletes from Barbados compete in the two-day open event in the beautiful Lake Louisa State Park of Clermont, Florida. The large event was held March 5th and 6th and welcomed competitors from around the world to the USA’s only two-day