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Minnis hoping to make impact in swimming - Barbados Today

Eleven-year-old Saniya Minnis is a national swimmer who competed in the Goodwill Games which were held in Trinidad and Tobago last month. The former student of St Angela’s School who now attends Queen’s College competed creditably where she swam to a podium finish attaining a silver medal in the 50m breaststroke and two bronze medals […]

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