ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Antigua will host the third edition of the Caribbean Awards for Sports Icons (CASI), on September 26, organisers have announced.
CASI, which is returning after a six year break, will be held at Sandals Grande Resort and will bring together a number of Caribbean sporting greats.
They will include Barbadian and West Indies cricket legend Sir Everton Weekes, Jamaican sprint sensation Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, along with a host of local icons.
“It is for every Caribbean person; whether you are living in the Caribbean, or in the diaspora like I do,” declared Al Hamilton, the veteran Jamaican Sports journalist who founded the event.
“The idea of CASI is simple: as a region, as a people, to say thank you to those persons who pioneered sports”.
CASI was first held in Jamaica in 2008, and in the Bahamas in 2009.
Awardees from the first two events include Antiguan cricket legend Sir Vivian Richards, Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt, and Bahamian former NBA champion Mychal Thompson.
Regional luminaries, along with Weekes and Fraser-Pryce, to be awarded, include sprinter Kim Collins of St. Kitts & Nevis, pioneering Trinidadian physical education specialist Dr. Iva Gloudon, and Grenada’s parasport swimmer Nye Cruckshank.
