Island records at the Caribbean Islands Championships in Barbados.

Stephen Fahy won a gold in the 100-metre butterfly and Matthew Hammond a silver in the 400-metre freestyle as the 15-nation meet kicked off on Monday.

Fahy and Hammond were unrested and unshaved as they continued preparations for the Commonwealth Games but that didn't stop either of them.

Fahy, 19, won his first gold medal in Caribbean competition in ten years when he posted a time of 58.55 seconds to set a meet record. Hammond, swimming in the 15-17 age group, was clocked in 4:19.71 -- setting a personal best and breaking the national record he set two years ago.

And yesterday the records continued to fall when Jessica Sousa, swimming in the preliminary heats of the girls 15-17 200-metre backstroke, shattered the national and age group records by three seconds. She was timed in 2:36.88, eclipsing Tiffany Gosling's marks set in 1992. Another Gosling record was broken by Kiera Aitken in the final of the 13-14 100-metre backstroke with a 1:14.00 on Monday night.

Sousa was seeded third heading into last night's finals, when Bermuda were expected to collect even more medals.

Hammond won his 200m freestyle heat in 2:02.84 yesterday while another Commonwealth Games hopeful, Stephen Troake, was seeded third in the 200m backstroke after turning in a 2:21.57 during preliminaries. Fahy was to swim the 400m IM.

Breastrokers Ashley Aitken and Jessica Marwick also swam personal bests in preliminaries of the 200m breast yesterday. Aitken earned a place in the final -- knocking nearly ten seconds off her previous PB. Marwick's 3:05.25 would have earned her a spot in the final, however she was disqualifed on a technicality.

Although not qualfiying for the finals, Roy-Allan Burch, Kevin Fox and Lindsay Taylor posted personal best times yesterday.

Four other swimmers made the final on the opening day and two just missed out on the medals.

Graham Smith (15-17 100m breast) and Tevor Ferguson (18-21 400m free) picked up fourth-place finishes on Monday, clocking 1:13.46 and 4:31.72, respectively. Kim Frith was sixth in the 15-17 100m breast and Tamika Williams was eighth in the 18-21 100m butterfly.

ON GOLDEN POND -- Bermuda's Stephen Fahy picked up a gold medal on the opening day of the Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships on Monday. Matthew Hammond won a silver.