Bermuda's squad for the upcoming Commonwealth Games will be selected in the next few weeks.

A number of athletes have already made the qualification standards for the July Games in Manchester, England but they are still to be formally ratified.

"The final date for qualifying is the weekend of June 15 and 16," said Michael Cherry, vice-president of the Bermuda Olympic Association and chairman of the organisation's technical committee.

Cherry said final figures would be agreed on June 18 and then finalised following a meeting of the general council, at which all sports would be represented, the following day. The team would then be announced "as soon after June 19 as possible" he said.

"We have three qualified already from cycling, four swimmers, one diver, and three from track and field," Cherry said. "We have gymnasts who are still trying but haven't yet been confirmed and we have potentially three triathletes who have already qualified."

Cherry said there would be representatives from squash but a decision on whether two or three players would be taken had yet to be decided. "We also have two shooters who have qualified as well," he said.

Cherry said the Island team would be fairly large when compared to those taken to recent events and he expected 25 competitors to make the trip.

"We did have a fairly big team that went to Malaysia four years ago," he said. "So this could well be about the same."

Cherry said he believed Bermuda would perform well in the UK. "I think that standards have generally improved all round," he said. "We do tend to set the standards a little bit higher from one festival to another."