Led by their sprinters, the Jamaicans kept their stranglehold on regional athletics with another outstanding performance, garnering 59 medals, including 32 gold, to top second-placed Mexico (42) and host team Trinidad and Tobago (39).
Multiple CARIFTA champion Natoya Goule advertised her superiority again as she dominated Under-17 girls' 800 metres for Jamaica.

The tiny distance-running dynamo slammed her rivals to win in 2:09.15 seconds, the second fastest time ever at the meet.
Only Jamaican Claudine Williams in 1990 has gone faster with her 2:09.01 performance.

Goule's effort was so outstanding, her time was quicker than the senior girls' 800 metres that Jamaican Jodiann Richards won in 2:12.23 seconds.

Richards' teammate Vanessa Boyd (2:14.09) finished strongly in second, while Mexican Magali Garcia got third.
The awesome Jamaicans predictably swept the 200-metre events.

Probably the most impressive was Under-17 boys' winner Romone McKenzie, whose superb 21.17 seconds was a championship record.

He defeated his Jamaican teammate Nickel Ashmeade (21.30) and Trinidad and Tobago's Kendall Bacchus (21.74).
Jamaican Carrie Russell won the girls' race in 23.75 seconds, edging Trinidad and Tobago's Cadajah Spencer (23.86) and The Bahamian Nivea Smith (24.23).

In the senior girls' 200, Jamaican star sprinter Schillonie Calvert was robbed of a faster time than her 23.20 seconds because of a hamstring injury.

However, the pain did not stop her from claiming the gold - and the sprint double - ahead of teammate Anastasia Leroy (23.25) and Trinidad and Tobago's Semoy Hackett (23.62).
Jamaica team medic Dr Patrick Robinson confirmed the injury that could threaten her glowing prospects for next month's World Junior Championship in Beijing, China.

"Preliminary assessment has shown a strain in her left hamstring, she will see her doctor tomorrow (today)," he said.
In the senior boys' event, Yohann Blake completed the sprint double with a time of 21.02 seconds, fighting off the challenge from Barbadian Ramon Gittens (21.12) and Trinidad and Tobago's Kervin Morgan (21.22).

The meet concluded with Jamaica sweeping all the 1,600-metre relay events, each time chased by Trinidad and Tobago.