Topic: CARIFTA Games
CARIFTA Aquatics Championships: Cayman surpasses 2025 medal count
The Cayman Aquatics team delivered a strong performance at the 2026 CARIFTA Aquatics Championships, earning a total of 49 medals.
Haye and Linton remain reigning CARIFTA champions
Cayman’s standout track and field duo, Gabriella Linton and Kaliah Haye, successfully defend their positions at the 2026 CARIFTA Games, reclaiming the title of ‘reigning champions’.
Sierrah Broadbelt prepares for final CARIFTA
Caymanian swimmer Sierrah Broadbelt will conclude her CARIFTA campaign at the 2026 CARIFTA Aquatics Championships in Martinique.
Cayman’s athletics team announced for 2026 CARIFTA
The Cayman Islands Athletics Association has officially announced the national delegation set for the 2026 CARIFTA Games.
Cayman gymnasts to debut at CARIFTA after skipping 2024
Though the CARIFTA franchise expanded in 2024 to include gymnastics as a separate sport, the Cayman Islands did not compete; however, that is set to change this year.
‘Idol’ Davontè Howell visits former school
Prospect Primary School recently welcomed home Davontè Howell, a former student turned Olympian, World Athletics Championship competitor and CARIFTA Games double gold medalist.
Kaliah Haye makes history at CARIFTA Games
Kaliah Haye, at just 13 years old, secured gold for Cayman in the U17 girls discus throw at the CARIFTA Games in Trinidad and Tobago.
Long-jumper Anthony Chin Jr. has high hopes for CARIFTA Games
Long-jumper Anthony Chin Jr., one of 15 track-and-field athletes representing the Cayman Islands at the 2025 CARIFTA Games, is looking to beat his best mark at this year's competition.
Delora Johnson jumps to CARIFTA qualification
Caymanian long jumper Delora Johnson has already secured a place on the Cayman delegation heading to Trinidad and Tobago.
Howell eyes Olympic qualification after historic CARIFTA Games
After finishing .15 seconds off the Olympic qualifying mark in the 100 metres, Caymanian sprinter Davonte Howell is still hopeful that he will join countryman and schoolmate Jordan Crooks in Paris to represent his homeland on the biggest stage.
Cayman swimmers take 2nd in aquatics, excel in open water at CARIFTA
Amid fireworks and raucous applause, Caymanian athletes celebrated their second-place finish in team points for this year’s CARIFTA Aquatics Championship on 2 April.
Riley Watson earns back-to-back medals at CARIFTA
The entire Cayman Islands swim team dug deep in the third day of the CARIFTA competition in the Bahamas to bring the medal count to 39,
Senior swimmers dominate CARIFTA’s most gruelling races
The Cayman Islands anthem rang out back to back at the Betty Kelly-Kenning Aquatic Center in the Bahamas Sunday, celebrating first-place finishes by Sierrah Broadbelt, 15, and Will Sellars, 17, in the CARIFTA Aquatics Championship women’s and men’s 15-17 400-metre individual medley.
Artistic swim team takes CARIFTA high point trophy
The 23-member Cayman Islands synchronised swim team secured the high point trophy for the second year in a row at CARIFTA.
Crooks sets CARIFTA record; Cayman bags over a dozen medals
Swimmer Jillian Crooks set a new meet record in the preliminary round of the 100-metre butterfly during the first day of this year’s CARIFTA...
CARIFTA official blamed for CIAA, Barnes-Riley spat
The regional governing body of athletics has laid the blame for the controversy surrounding the CARIFTA coaching credentials of Lacee Barnes-Riley on an official at the games.
Video | Interview with Sports Minister Bernie Bush
Sports minister Bernie Bush sits down with Cayman Compass journalist Seaford Russell Jr to discuss the recent developments involving Caymanian athletes Lacee Barnes and...
Howell, Chin Jr, Stone claim medals for CARIFTA track team
After the swimmers earned a trolley of silverware Saturday, the track and fielders joined the medal parade.
Track-and-fielders hit the mark at CUC meet
The CIAA 2023 CUC Youth and CARIFTA Track and Field Championships concluded at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex, with some notable finishes.
Medals galore for Cayman during day one of CARIFTA Games
The Cayman Islands got off to a golden start, claiming 15 medals during day one at both the CARIFTA Track and Field Games and the Carifta Swimming Championships respectively.
Cayman team named for the 2022 CARIFTA Games
The Cayman Islands Athletic Association has named the 25 track-and-field athletes who will represent Cayman at the 2022 CARIFTA Games in Jamaica next month.
CARIFTA returning after two-year hiatus
After being cancelled for two consecutive years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 49th CARIFTA Games is scheduled to take place in early April
Local athletes eye other meets after CARIFTA cancellation
Local junior athletes continue to train for various sporting events while expressing disappointment at the cancellation of the CARIFTA athletics and swimming meets due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 CARIFTA Games cancelled
The saga of postponements and cancellations for the CARIFTA Games continues, as the news that many young athletes in Cayman have been dreading was...
Howell, Gardner qualify for the CARIFTA Games
Two Caymanian track and field athletes will be heading to the CARIFTA Games after making the qualifying standard during the All Comers Meet at...
EDITORIAL – Another win for sports tourism
Cayman’s repeated successes in sports tourism makes ‘winners’ of us all, opening up new revenue opportunities for the sector, diversifying entertainment options for our residents and reinforcing the importance of healthy, active lifestyles among our youth.
Sports tourism helps boost numbers
The CARIFTA track and field event has been credited with boosting tourism arrivals in April as the Cayman Islands notched up another record month.
EDITORIAL – The return of the Cayman Islands Classic
Months before the tip-off of the third-annual Cayman Islands Classic, we are confident in declaring at least one winner: Cayman’s blossoming sports tourism industry.
Cayman eyes bid for IAAF World Relays
The success of the 48th annual CARIFTA Games, hosted 20-22 April at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex, has Cayman’s athletic community hungry for more.
EDITORIAL – Let the CARIFTA Games begin
Hosting CARIFTA is no small task for our little islands, but it is well worth the effort.
Cayman names record number of athletes to CARIFTA team
A record number of track and field athletes will represent the Cayman Islands at the 48th annual CARIFTA Games this year.
French teams hope to do better at CARIFTA 2019
French territories Martinique and French Guiana have high hopes ahead of the 48th annual CARIFTA Games, scheduled for Easter weekend (April 20 to 22) at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex. Martinique took home four medals in 2018 and French Guiana earned one.
Antigua and Montserrat still finalising teams for CARIFTA 2019
Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat are still in the process of finalising teams for the 48th annual CARIFTA Games, scheduled for Easter weekend, April 20-22, at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
CARIFTA medal expectations: BVI, USVI and Dominica
The U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands and Dominica may be fielding relatively small teams for the 48th annual CARIFTA games, but they will be coming with big medal expectations for the event, which will take place during Easter weekend (April 20-22) at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
Teams hoping for medal-worthy performances at CARIFTA Cayman
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and St. Lucia teams are all hoping for medal-worthy performances when they take to the track at the 48th annual CARIFTA Games, being held in Cayman over the Easter weekend at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
Records tumble at national swimming championships
More than 130 youngsters took part in Cayman’s national youth swimming championships over the weekend.
Cayman athletes start out strong at CARIFTA Games
The Cayman Islands are off to a rousing start in the CARIFTA games currently being held in Jamaica and the Bahamas. The swim team stands in fifth place after two days, and the track team earning five medals in the athletics competition.
Prep graduate receives Dart college scholarship
Dominic Dyer, a gifted student and athlete, is the recipient of Dart’s 2017 Minds Inspired William A. Dart Memorial Scholarship.
Cayman athletes win 47 swim, 6 track medals
Cayman’s Carifta athletes celebrated a double success this week, capturing an impressive number of medals in Curacao and the Bahamas and winning the bid to host the 2019 Carifta Games.
Cayman’s Carifta medalists reflect on their success
Fourteen of Cayman’s best track and field athletes competed against the region’s elite at the 2016 Carifta Games hosted in St. George’s, Grenada at the end of March.
Cayman wins four medals on first day at Carifta Games
The Cayman Islands swim team collecting four medals on the first day of the Carifta Games in Martinique.
Cayman swimmers head to Carifta
As 22 swimmers from Cayman prepared to leave for the 2016 Carifta Games in Martinique last week, Sports Minister Osbourne Bodden met with them to offer words of encouragement.
CUC junior track and field championships this weekend
The Cayman Islands Athletic Association in partnership with Caribbean Utilities Company present the 2016 CUC Youth and Junior Carifta Track & Field Championships on Friday and Saturday at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
CARIFTA junior swim team announced
Twenty-two junior swimmers from Cayman will attend the CARIFTA Games in Martinique next month.
