EDWIN ALLEN’S head coach, Michael Dyke, believes that it is quite possible that the girls’ Class One 100 metres at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships could produce its first ever sub-11 clocking. Jamaica’s Class...
NEIL HARRISON, coach of Jamaica College (JC), and Michael Dyke, his counterpart from Edwin Allen, two of the persons attempting to mould young charges into athletes and citizens, are delighted at the news that there will be 60 scholarships going to...
The Government of Jamaica will be awarding 60 scholarships to athletes participating at this year’s ISSA/GraceKEnnedy Boys’ and Girls’ Championships. The announcement was made by minister of sports, youth and culture, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange....
President of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Keith Wellington said his organisation will be very vigilant in enforcing COVID-19 protocols at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. Wellington...
AFTER MORE than a two-year absence, stemming largely from the COVID-19 pandemic, Netball Jamaica (NJ) Supreme Ventures-sponsored divisional leagues is scheduled to resume next month. The leagues, which comprise of the A and C competitions, is set...
Kingston College (KC) schoolboy Christopher Pearson made a dream start to life in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) competition with an 89th-minute goal to help Cavalier to a 2-0 win over Molynes United at Sabina Park yesterday. Kyle Ming scored...
President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, says his organisation will be working very closely with the various stakeholders to decide on suitable dates for their World Athletics Championships training camp....
St Jago’s Annishka McDonald won the JAAA Carifta Trials Girls Under-20 high jump with a leap of 1.78 metres at the National Stadium today. McDonald won the event ahead of Wolmer’s Girls’ Malaika Cunningham (1.75m) and Torian Caven from Vere, who...
The National T10 cricket competition which is scheduled to begin on April 19, will signal the restart of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) competitions. O’Neil Cruickshank, the JCA’s head of cricket operations and development, told The Gleaner...
PRESIDENT OF the inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Keith Wellington said the organisation has been given approval from the Government to use a new system for the purchasing of tickets to next month’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls...
Lenworth Hyde, head coach of Portmore United, says yesterday’s hard-fought 1-0 victory over Montego Bay United in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) will instil a lot more confidence in his team as this is the first time they were recording back-to-...
Jamaica’s tennis players, Blaise Bicknell and Rowland ‘Randy’ Phillips, say they had nothing to be ashamed of after going down 3-2 to a tough Greece team in their Davis Cup Group Two playoff in Athens last weekend. Blaise, who is ranked 1,217 in...
Defending champions Excelsior High are on course to retain their Corporate Area Track and Field Championships girls’ title heading into today’s final day of the two-day meet at the National Stadium. Jamaica College (JC) hold a narrow seven-point...
Seventeen finals will be contested on today’s opening day of the two-day ISSA Corporate Area Track and Field Championships at the National Stadium. The finals that are down to be contested today are the girls’ Class One discus, Class One high jump...
AS SEVERAL European countries imposed bans on Russian airlines, Dalton Wint, general secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), says it is up to Moscow-based Reggae Boyz striker Shamar Nicholson and his representative to decide whether he...
Tickets for this year’s staging of the April 5-9 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships are scheduled to go on sale this month, but the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) is still awaiting approval from the Government on the...
President of Netball Jamaica (NJ), Tricia Robinson, says her association is very close to receiving settlements from two insurance companies to replace one of two stolen buses. Robinson told The Gleaner that NJ could receive both insurance...
Kevin Cowan, the agent for Moscow-based Reggae Boyz striker Shamar Nicholson, says he is closely monitoring the situation in Russia following that country’s invasion of neighbours Ukraine. Russia launched military operations in Ukraine early...
President of Netball Jamaica Tricia Robinson says the unavailability of goal shooter Romelda Aiken for this year’s Commonwealth Games will be a huge blow to the Sunshine Girls team at the tournament. The Commonwealth Games will be held in...
CHAIRMAN OF the Jamaica Race Drivers Club (JRDC), Junior Barnes, said anticipation is very high ahead of the return of motor racing at Dover raceway in St Ann on Easter Monday, April 18. According to Barnes, his organisation submitted all their...
CUMAX WEALTH Management Limited has thrown their support behind the development of local football by sponsoring Jamaica Premier League club Harbour View FC to the tune of $3.5 million. Ian McNaughton, chief executive officer of Cumax Wealth...
HARBOUR VIEW’S assistant coach Shaun Fraser says his team is now finding its feet and they are growing in confidence after a 2-0 victory over Portmore United in the Jamaica Premier League competition yesterday. Striker Trayvone Reid, in the 45th...
CHAIRMAN OF the organising committee for the 45th renewal Gibson McCook Relays, Rainford Wilks, said security will be very tight for this year’s staging at the National Stadium on Saturday. The championships will be held under strict government...
Having won his first race of the season, veteran jockey Everton Miller says he is hungry for more victories at Caymanas Park this year. Miller, who has been riding for more than 45 years, produced a well-timed run aboard I’VE GOT MAGIC to upstage...
JAMAICA’S REGGAE Girlz will enter today’s Group C Concacaf World Cup qualifier against Bermuda inside the National Stadium oozing with confidence. Match time is 6 p.m. Reggae Girlz head coach Vin Blaine said, despite starting the campaign without...
