FRESH FROM her involvement in a revamped Jamaica Women’s Premier League, marketing and communications expert Carlene Edwards has been appointed to the FIFA Women’s National Team Competitions Committee. FIFA, the world governing body for football,...
The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) is pushing back against suggestions that its fees for students to participate in graduation ceremonies are exorbitant. After years of study, graduation is usually viewed with excitement for students of...
JAMAICA OLYMPIC Association President Christopher Samuda is among those paying tribute to multi-World Championships and Olympic medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce after the 38-year-old confirmed that she will be retiring from the sport of track and...
Legendary sprinting icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has officially announced her retirement from the sport. Ahead of the National Championships in June Fraser-Pryce had revealed that it would be the final time she would be competing in the Trials and...
THE COACH of Navasky Anderson, national record holder in the 800 metres, heads the list of coaches to be awarded by the Jamaica Track and Field Coaches Association (JATAFCA) as the body marked National Coaches Day yesterday. Tom Brumlik, who helped...
JAMAICA INTERNATIONAL Tyreek Magee has joined Jamaica Premier League (JPL) outfit Mount Pleasant Football Academy on a free transfer. The club made the announcement on Sunday, with Magee set to take the field once his registration process with the...
With news emerging on Friday that the United States forces carried out another strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel off the Venezuelan coast, local fishers have differing views on how this is likely to affect them. US Defence Secretary Pete...
The importance of building on the strengths of their last tournament and eliminating some of the weaknesses have been cited by Annett Daley, head coach of Jamaica’s under-21 netball team as key areas for focus as Netball Jamaica looks to ensure...
Although finishing off the podium, the coach of Jamaica’s under-21 netball team, Annett Daley, has praised her team for their performance at the just-concluded World Netball Youth Cup. The young Sunshine Girls returned from the tournament in...
JAMAICAN SPRINTING icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who recently announced her retirement from global competitions, is among international celebrities included in fake online artificial intelligence (AI)-generated posts about lucrative Netflix deals....
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 having four athletes declare the intention to...
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 Athletics Championships when 400-metre hurdler Assinie...
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 island on Wednesday evening. Exuding quiet confidence...
BELGIUM’S AMBASSADOR to Jamaica, Ellen de Geest, during the handover of equipment to Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz at her residence yesterday, says, as part of her country’s foreign policy, she wants to support women’s football in Jamaica. Also present...
TRACK AND field analyst Leighton Levy has attributed American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s blistering time at the just-concluded World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, to a combination of her speed, the strength she gained from her training...
WHEN SHELLY-ANN Fraser-Pryce handed over the baton to Tia Clayton in the women’s 4x100-metre relay at the World Athletics Championships, she was absolutely sure that her decision to step away from the main stage was the right one. “When I stepped...
A PALL of gloom hung overEdwin Allen High School in Clarendon yesterday as students, teachers and support staff assembled for devotion following last Friday’s sudden passing of student athlete Tanisha Gayle. Fifteen-year-old Gayle died at the Percy...
Already a senior citizen, Yvonne Rosemarie Shaw, more commonly referred to as Rosemarie Shaw, will perhaps be the oldest first-time parliamentarian when she is sworn in to represent the people of St Thomas Eastern. Following an often ill-tempered...
Voting was extended in several polling divisions as long lines of disgruntled voters, many waiting for extended periods to cast their ballots, was an unpleasant feature of yesterday’s general election. Sweat-drenched voters battled searing...
When polls close today, over 50 candidates from outside Jamaica’s two main political parties – the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) – will be hoping for a political breakthrough. This includes candidates from the...
After five consecutive defeats at the polls, many politicians would have long thrown in the towel. However, Joan Gordon-Webley isn’t built that way. Despite her rivals’ taunts, the veteran politician insists she is no loser, and is now eyeing what...
Clarendon North Central has been firmly in Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) hands for more than two decades, but People’s National Party (PNP) newcomer Dr Aujae Dixon is hoping to break that streak when Jamaicans head to the polls on September 3. The...
Maureen Lorne insists that when the ballots are counted in St Andrew South Western on election night, Jamaicans will witness the unmistakable writing on the wall: a PNP stronghold of nearly four decades is on its way back to the Jamaica Labour...
If there is one name that has become synonymous with persistence in Jamaican politics, it is Joseph ‘Bunny’ Witter. Despite never winning an election, the People’s National Party (PNP) standard-bearer has carved out a reputation as one of the...
Businessman and parliamentary hopeful Paul Patmore says one of his main motivations for contesting the upcoming general election is to restore Trelawny Southern from what he describes as 20 years of neglect – and to make it a model for farming...
