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Stories by Orane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Published:Thursday | June 8, 2023 | 1:35 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

OLYMPIC GARDENS have been booted from the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) following last Saturday’s no-show for a semi-final against Frazsiers Whip. Additional sanctions will have significant impact on the Olympic Gardens club and its manager...

Published:Thursday | June 8, 2023 | 1:28 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FIVE-TIME NATIONAL champion discus thrower Fedrick Dacres is downplaying his performance at the fifth staging of the Racer’s Grand Prix, held at the National Stadium on Saturday, where he finished fourth. Dacres only managed a best throw of 62.85...

Published:Wednesday | June 7, 2023 | 1:26 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

JAMAICA INTERNATIONAL player Morgan Green is counting her blessings and is still optimistic about what lies ahead despite not being able to secure a spot on the Women’s National Basketball Association’s (WNBA) New York Liberty. The former Chabot...

Published:Saturday | June 3, 2023 | 12:47 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AMID a plethora of challenges, which includes mainly financial struggles, Team Jamaica will be looking to qualify for the 2024 Hockey5s World Cup in Muscat, Oman, with the qualifiers set for June 4-11 at the Mona Hockey Field. The tournament will...

Published:Friday | June 2, 2023 | 12:29 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

A four-member squash squad – Julian Morrison, Bruce Burrowes, Tajhia Lumley and Dane Schwier – will depart today to participate in the Pan American qualifiers in Cartegena, Colombia. The qualifiers will run from June 4-10. President of the...

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2023 | 1:02 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AS TOP-FLIGHT basketball returns to Jamaica following a three-year hiatus from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic Paulton Gordon, president of the Jamaica Basketball Association, announced new sponsorships and a June 17 tip-off. Speaking at the...

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2023 | 1:12 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Gymnastics Association (JGA), Nicole Grant, says that both management and national representatives are bitterly disappointed after failing to qualify for either the World Championships or Pan American Games at the recently...

Published:Saturday | May 27, 2023 | 12:54 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

HIGHLY rated local shooter David Wong was crowned champion of the Jamaica Skeet Club Sporting Clays Tournament after he fought off stiff challenges from 19 competitors in the first tournament for junior shooters since the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

Published:Friday | May 26, 2023 | 12:35 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

A seven-member Jamaican gymnastics team comprised of Caleb Faulk, Michael Reid, Matthew McClymont, Elel Wahrmann-Baker, Tyesha Mattis, Mya Absolam and Kiara Richmon will bow into action today at the three-day Pan American Championships in Medellin...

Published:Thursday | May 25, 2023 | 1:34 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AHEAD OF next week’s start to the 2023 National Basketball League (NBL) tournament, Lennox Lindo, head coach of the Spanish Town Spartans, has bemoaned the slow preparation but insists the club has been working assiduously to reorganise itself for...

Published:Saturday | May 20, 2023 | 12:47 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

NEWLY appointed technical director of Jamaica’s under-17 basketball programme, Wayne Dawkins, is salivating at the prospects he has at his disposal which he believes will take the country to new heights on the world stage. Dawkins stated that...

Published:Friday | May 19, 2023 | 1:32 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

DEFENDING champions Jamaica had to settle for third place at the recently concluded Full Bore Shooting Championships held at the Crabbs Range in Antigua and Barbuda. Guyana took the title in impressive fashion, finishing on a total of 1,119 points...

Published:Friday | May 19, 2023 | 1:30 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING the decision of cricket’s governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), to remove the use of the ‘soft signal’ as of June 1, 2023, Jamaica-born regional umpire Chris Taylor believes that the decision means the roles of the on...

Published:Friday | May 19, 2023 | 1:28 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AS the National Basketball League (NBL) draws closer to resumption, title hopefuls Central Celtics are looking to emulate NBA franchise Boston Celtics and contend for a title of their own. The Boston Celtics are facing the Miami Heat in the...

Published:Tuesday | May 16, 2023 | 1:33 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FORMER Jamaica and West Indies fast bowler Daren Powell has welcomed the move to appoint former teammate Daren Sammy as the new white ball coach for the West Indies team. Powell believes that despite the move being rather unorthodox from the West...

Published:Saturday | May 13, 2023 | 12:51 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE SIMON Brown-coached Upper Room Eagles are in the process of finalising a squad for the 2023 National Basketball League (NBL), which tips off later this month following a three-year stoppage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Preparation has gone as...

Published:Saturday | May 13, 2023 | 12:46 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AFTER ending the regular season of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) as table toppers, Arnett Gardens, the team affectionately known as the ‘Junglists’, are in a wait-and-see mode as to who they will face when the semi-final action kicks off....

Published:Friday | May 12, 2023 | 1:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING the completion of the regular season in the Jamaica Premier League, defending champions Harbour View will lock horns with Humble Lion in the first leg of their playoff tie set for the Stadium East field next Monday with kickoff set for 7:...

Published:Thursday | May 11, 2023 | 1:38 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

JAMAICA TALLAWAHS CEO, Jeff Miller, is downplaying speculations that something may be wrong within his Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) franchise after the high-profile exit of winning captain Rovman Powell last week. According to the CEO,...

Published:Thursday | May 11, 2023 | 1:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AS THE 2023 National Basketball League (NBL) draws closer to its restart in the final week of May, the tournament’s first staging since the COVID-19 pandemic, the UWI Runnin’ Rebels have been forced to bank on youth. According to Pete Matthews,...

Published:Tuesday | May 9, 2023 | 12:50 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Gymnastics Association Nicole Grant believes that the performance of the country’s young athletes at the recently concluded Caribbean Classics, hosted at the Woodbrook Youth Facility in Trinidad and Tobago from May 5- 7,...

Published:Saturday | May 6, 2023 | 1:25 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

A strong eight-member Jamaican team led by Captain Phillip Scott will leave the island tomorrow for the 2023 West Indies Full Bore Shooting Championships which will be hosted at the Crabb’s Range in Antigua and Barbuda. The other members of the...

Published:Friday | May 5, 2023 | 1:45 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AS the country gears up for the 41st staging of the Insports Primary Schools All-Island Athletics Championships, which started with the Eastern Championships at Stadium East on Thursday, it was announced that the championships will now have a...

Published:Thursday | May 4, 2023 | 12:45 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

SINCE YESTERDAY’S revelation that Jamaica Tallawahs’ 2022 winning captain, Rovman Powell, will not return to the team for the upcoming 2023 season, questions about what could have gone wrong in the camp of the three-time Caribbean Premier League (...

Published:Tuesday | May 2, 2023 | 1:06 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

JAMAICA’S master class shooter Ryan Bramwell defeated a highly competitive field on Sunday at the 2023 Spectrum Handgun Championships. He was crowned the top male shooter over a field that included shooters from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, The...

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