 All right, they say, let's head into the fast lane with track and field, the Cambrian's best young athletes now shift their focus to the upcoming Carifter Games set for Grenada this weekend. Sportsmax were broadcasting the action live from the Spice Isle daily from March 30 to April 1 and we're looking ahead to the event and Lance and Mariah, Mariah was very right this time to say that I am excited about the Carifter Games and I can't wait to leave the land of wooden water and head to Grenada. You suggested it. No, I would never say you're excited about anything again because the last time I innocently said it, you took it and you ran with it like if you were at Carifter. No, no, no, no, no. The last time you said it was my favorite time of year, that's a completely different thing from saying I'm excited about something. You know you love track and field and I really was trying to put it out to the viewers to get the point across to them but you know what, it's not good to be nice to Ricardo and I learned my lesson. So, no, I did not say you're excited, I just said you're prepared because I saw you preparing. Are you prepared? How do you know that I'm prepared? Oh Lord, well, Nicholas Mathews, I'll see you, Ricardo is not prepared. I never said I wasn't, but I said how do you know that I am? You don't play riddles on it. No. So yes, I am excited and I am preparing for the Carifter Games and as I pointed out, I enjoyed the Boys and Girls Athletics Championships and the various high school championships right across the Caribbean. I think sometimes in Jamaica we think that because Boys and Girls Championships is so massive that there are not other exciting high school events across the world and when you look right across the Caribbean, B-Sack and Barbados, Grenada, I've actually been quite excited about the KFC high school event in Grenada for a number of years now. They have fantastic crowds and the performances are pretty good there as well and we've seen that translate in Grenada's track and field up to the highest level. Well remember, Linda and Victor told us on the show three weeks ago that it's better than Boys and Girls Jams? Well, I'm just saying he said so. Well, that might be pushing it, but it's great. It's great. It's a terrific atmosphere and you have some really good track and field. B-Sack and Barbados as well. They had to scale down B-Sack and Barbados this year because usually it would be held over like two weeks essentially where you have regionals and then you have the nationals. This time around they did it within a week I think three or four days and whereas you would have two athletes per event per school in the past, this time it was cut down to just one athlete per event per school. So I'm pretty sure that there are a number of young Barbadian high school athletes who are thinking that they missed an opportunity to compete this year at B-Sack and do well. But I've really enjoyed what I've seen right across the Caribbean and what it says to me is that there is going to be a certain intensity about Carifter like it usually is. But there is so much quality around the different events that I'm really looking forward to see how they match up. I wonder if a Deja Hodge from the British Virgin Islands for example will be at Carifter this year. I haven't seen the BVI squad yet but remember she was in the Bahamas last year and she had to withdraw at the very last moment because of an injury if I remember correctly. And she won the U.S. indoor nationals for high schools and so she is in very good form and there is a certain Tianali Terrellong out of Jamaica who ran 11-22 at the high school championships. You didn't get the clash with the Lana Reader a year ago. I would love to see the clash with Terrellong at 100 and Chenoya Douglas at 200 meters. So that would really be great since we missed it last year. Yeah. And just to highlight the point that you just made about the quality of some of the athletes coming out of these other schools championships throughout the region. I think that is underlined by the fact that from time to time we see non-Jamaican athletes winning titles at boys and girls jams which tells you that a lot of these countries in the rest of the Caribbean have a lot of talent as well. Maybe the development process that Jamaica affords the athletes is what would put them ahead. But you know you think of people like Jaanel Hughes and Delano Williams and just last weekend Amal Glasgow from St. Vincent and the Grenadiers. Who is not a junior anymore by the way but still. But it comes here and beats the Jamaican best athletes. Jaanel Hughes was a classic. This is a hundred meters where Jamaicans pride themselves as the best and this little man from Anguilla comes here and dominates and wins. So I think those those performances tell you that the quality of track and field in the Caribbean is not limited to Jamaica and there are a lot of a lot of really good athletes outside in the rest of the Caribbean. All right. Let's go to St. Kits and Nevis then Delway and Duane is the president of the St. Kits and Nevis Athletics Association. Of course he himself a former sprinter and they have named a 27 member squad for the Carifter Games. Delway and welcome to the Sportsmax zone. It is a pleasure to have you. How are you doing and how are the preparations going for the start of Carifter this weekend. Thank you. Sportsmax team preparations are going well. Actually we are at the stadium at the Nevis Athletics Stadium in the background there where we have our team has been going to some places as it relates to really and so on. And so preparations are going quite well as much anticipated Carifter Games to be held in Grenada over the Easter weekend. And so we are prepared that the team is ready. The team is focused geared up to go and we are we are all in good spirits over here. Yeah can you give us an idea of some of the key names to look forward to at Carifter this weekend from a St. Kits and Nevis perspective. Yes I would say all of our athletes are of good calibre as it relates to the team that is travelling. But to highlight some persons who are returning and who might be my veterans we have Mr Jermad Huggins who just missed a medal on both occasions that being the Octatalon and the the Hydro Place in Fort and he's returning. We have Mr Jalen Bennett, Silver Medleys and they are on the 17 400 meters. We have Deschanel Thomas who also captured the bronze medal in the 400 meters on the 17 girls. And so as well as we have our Kanya Samuel Francis who Francis Samuel who won the 400 meter hurdles and so he's returning as well. And so these are persons that we are who the other youngsters and the newbies will be looking towards for encouragement for you know I mean lean on the experience in ensuring that you know they capture some silver we are and if not so have a good showing at this year's Carifter Games. Yeah I have to put this one to you Delwayne because Lance just brought it up in terms of the number of Caribbean participants we see in the high school system in Jamaica from St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Tiga and Barbuda we see them from Trinidad and Tobago as well but we've not seen athletes from St. Kits and Nevis. Is there a particular reason for that that we've not seen athletes from St. Kits and Nevis compete in the high school system here in Jamaica. Not particularly we have a small system and a very competitive system here in relation to the high school over the last two or so years we have seen the increase in participation we have seen the increase in performances as well and we are able to feel you know strong teams out of our system we are not opposed you know the Jamaican system but as well as we know we want to develop what we have here as much as possible and as fast possible as well because it's not everyone is afforded that opportunity and it's not everyone who would want to take that route and we have to be mindful of that and so we have to ensure that our local program is sturdy and strong at the same time but nonetheless we have seen the athletes who have traveled to to Jamaica and in the in the world in the high school system do quite well we understand that we have been you know exploring softly that option with a few of our athletes over here in St. Kits and Nevis but for the time being it has not materialized. All right yeah well let's see how that will go Delway and by the way Lance says that if you continue to explore he has a few spots at Wolmes that he can send some of your athletes so you can't consider that. Delway it is a pleasure having you and I'm sure we'll be seeing you in Grenada this weekend. Indeed thank you. All right take care Delway Dwayne President. What is going on with you? What is happening with Ricardo? Let me tell you about the Cariftagames it will be on the channel you want to speak with yourself? I just want to suggest that Calabar needs help in trying to in trying to topple Kingston College so I'm not sure why he's trying to enlist people at Wolmes. Lance did you hear the Calabar manager on this show some months ago saying that they're developing local talent and they're not looking overseas at this time. Yeah but you're a part of the Calabar fraternity so you should help to to change that narrative. So speak for Calabar not for Lance's Wolmes. Let me tell the viewers about the Cariftagames of course it will be live on your home of champions and Ricardo and our entire Sportsmax team along with our producer Gerard Morrisili will be getting ready for this big event as I said live from Grenada on your home of champions you don't want to miss it and it's coming up this Easter weekend for those of you that's looking for something to tune in to. I don't want to miss it.