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Ian Forbes
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Government, JAAA get to work on keeping Jamaica’s athletes

TRACK AND field stakeholders, the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport and the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), are still making their way through the fallout of…
Oblique Seville talks with members of the media on his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport from the Tokyo World Athletics Championships where he won gold in the men's 100 metres.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Quietly confident Oblique back in the island

Basking in the feeling of being the first Jamaican man to reach the top of a World Athletics Championship podium, since Usain Bolt did in 2015, 100 metre Champion Oblique Seville returned to the…
Jamaica’s Assinie Wilson competes in the heats of the men’s 400-metre hurdles qualifiers on day three of the Tokyo World Athletics Championships at the Japan National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, September 15.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

‘They are not alone’

A GAP in the public education programme is being blamed for some athletes not being aware of the financial assistance available to them. Eyebrows were raised during the recently concluded World…
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December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Whitmore elated with Mt Pleasant’s Caribbean Cup final-four berth

MOUNT PLEASANT Football Academy advanced to the semi-finals of the Concacaf Caribbean Cup (CCC) after a dominant 2-0 victory over Central FC of Trinidad, in Port of Spain, on Tuesday night. Raheem…
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December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Young Sunshine Girls face big Australia test today

AFTER LOSING (64-33) to England in their decisive Pool C game for group honours on Tuesday in the Netball World Youth Cup in Gibraltar, Jamaica’s under-21 Sunshine Girls face another mammoth task when…
December 9, 2025

ICC suspends USA Cricket over governance failures

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): THE INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council has suspended USA Cricket’s (USAC) membership with immediate effect over repeated breaches of its obligations under the ICC…
December 9, 2025 by Ainsley Walters

Lockdown’s finishing speed to bring Ronron Trophy

LOCKDOWN, THE Strikewhileitshot colt who chased BOB THE BUILDER and I DREAM AGAIN into the stretch run of the 2000 Guineas before being wiped out against the rail a half-furlong out by eventual…

From left: Jamaica College principal, Wayne Robinson, helps Manning Cup players Joshua King, Devonte Allen, Dontae Logan (captain holding cheque), Duwayne Burgher, Delajahe McCormack and Domanic Clarke (also holding cheque), and David Simmonds display a s
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

‘Start something big for the future’

FORMER JAMAICA College (JC) Manning Cup star Junior Flemmings said giving back to his alma mater was something he always had a strong desire to do after presenting the school with a $500,000 donation,…
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December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

‘I emptied it and left it all’

WHEN SHELLY-ANN Fraser-Pryce handed over the baton to Tia Clayton in the women’s 4x400-metre relay at the World Athletics Championships, she was absolutely sure that her decision to step away from the…