athletes to compete in the CARIFTA Games in Bridgetown, Barbados from April 14-16.

The final figure is one one less than the squad that travelled to the Games in Grenada last year when shot putter Brittney Marshall captured the Island's only medal, a silver.

Marshall, who at 12 years old was the youngest team member in 2000, was one of the early qualifiers this year.

She is joined in the squad by Richard Walcott (800m, 1500m), Henry Talbot (800m, 1500m), Shar-dae Whitter (800m, 1500m), Crystal Hayward (shot, discus), Michelle Trott (100m, 200m), Zindzi Swan (high jump), Gabriel Wilkinson (shot, discus), Danielle Watson (400m, 200m), Tiffany Eatherley (400m, 800m) and Derrick Golding (shot, discus).

The latest additions to the team were Watson and Eatherley whose progress had been hampered by injury and sickness while 15-year-old student Golding was the final qualifier. All three will compete are in the under-17 division.

Top female Raneika Bean had expressed a keen interest in competing but the BTFA had not received any word from her coaches at school in Alabama about her recent performances.

Bean recorded a 100 metres time of 11.28 seconds during a heat in the 1998 Games in the girls' under-17 division in Trinidad and Tobago when she was just 15 years old. That remains a Games record to this date, although it was hand-timed and later disputed.

Bean went on to win the under-17 100 metres gold in a much slower time of 11.96.

Tentative plans call for the team to leave Bermuda on Wednesday, April 11.