Sergio Mendes Fedee (born 13 January 1983) is a

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindi ...

n cricketer who has played for the

Windward Islands french: Îles du Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Windward Islands. Clockwise: Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean Sea Nor ...

in West Indian domestic cricket. He plays as a left-handed middle-order batsman. Fedee was born in

Unity Village, Guyana Unity is a rural village in the East Coast district of the Demerara-Mahaica region of Guyana. The village is notable for being the birthplace of both Shivnarine Chanderpaul, former captain of the West Indies cricket team and Bharrat Jagdeo, fo ...

, to a Guyanese father and a Saint Lucian mother, and moved to Saint Lucia as a child. He was named after the Brazilian musician

Sérgio Mendes Sérgio Santos Mendes (; born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician. His career took off with worldwide hits by his group Brasil '66. He has over 55 releases and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. He was nominated for ...

. Fedee made his senior debut in West Indian domestic cricket at the

2001–02 Red Stripe Bowl The 2001–02 Red Stripe Bowl was the 28th season of what is now the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). It ran from 2 to 14 October 2001, with matches play ...

, representing the Northern Windward Islands team that was competing on a once-off basis. His first-class debut came in February 2004, when he played for the full Windwards team in a

Carib Beer Cup The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as Shell Shield and Carib Beer Cup, is the first-class cricket competition in the West Indies. It is administered by the Cricket West Indies. In the 2013-2014 season the winner of the tourname ...

game against

West Indies B West Indies B is a List A cricket team that participates in the West Indian domestic List A tournament and was formerly also a first-class cricket team that participated in the West Indian domestic First Class competition from the 2000–01 se ...

.First-class matches played by Sergio Fedee
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 April 2016. In 2006 and 2008, Fedee represented the Saint Lucian national team in the

Stanford 20/20 The Stanford 20/20 was a short-lived cricket tournament in the Caribbean island of Antigua. It was held first in July and August 2006 in the West Indies at the Stanford Cricket Ground, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, and then again in the s ...

tournament. He had little success, however, with his highest score being 17 runs from 28 balls against the Cayman Islands.Twenty20 matches played by Sergio Fedee
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 April 2016. Fedee's most recent match for the Windwards came in the

2011–12 Regional Four Day Competition The 2011–12 Regional Four Day Competition was the 46th domestic first-class cricket tournament held in the West Indies, it took place from 5 February 201116 April 2012. Unlike the previous year when the touring England Lions took part in the ...

, against

Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate ...

. Since the end of his professional sporting career he has moved to

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, United Kingdom and set up several successful companies specialising in

Caribbean tourism Tourism is one of the Caribbean's major economic sectors, with 25 million visitors contributing $49 billion towards the area's gross domestic product in 2013, which represented 14% of its total GDP. It is often described as, "the most tourism-depe ...

. Firstly The Travel Group, a sports and leisure company offering sports tours to some of the United Kingdoms leading boarding schools. Secondly Caribbean Elective, a company offering university students the opportunity to travel to the Caribbean in order to complete a work experience placement in their field of interest. Sergio founded Caribbean Elective in partnership with his business partner Harry Spear. Together they have grown the business which now operates across several

Caribbean Islands Almost all of the Caribbean islands are in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes. The largest island is Cuba. Other sizable islands include Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the smaller islands a ...

including

, Grenada and

Antigua Antigua ( ), also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Ba ...

. Sergio and Harry are considered largely responsible for the growth of the youth tourism sector in the Caribbean, and since the success of Caribbean Elective together they have gone on to found True Caribbean Holidays a company focused on giving its customers authentic Caribbean experiences on their holidays.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fedee, Sergio 1996 births Living people Guyanese cricketers Guyanese emigrants to Saint Lucia Guyanese people of Saint Lucian descent Saint Lucian cricketers Windward Islands cricketers