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Flow/ISSA schoolboy football season kicks off

Published:Friday | September 11, 2015 | 7:00 PMPaul Clarke

Defending daCosta Cup champions Clarendon College will get their title defence under way when they clash with Group H rivals Edwin Allen High to open the 2015 Flow/ISSA schoolboy football season at the Montego Bay Sports Complex.The game is the...

Top schools take aim at daCosta Cup

Published:Thursday | September 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:Tomorrow the drama and spectacle that is the ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup season will get under way and the expectation is that it will be a season of superlative football action.Last year, with Patrick 'Jackie' Walters in charge, Clarendon...

Reno start with win, MBU lose to Portmore at first hurdle

Published:Monday | September 7, 2015 | 4:58 PMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:FC Reno, boasting some new faces and a new coach in charge, defeated Humble Lion 1-0 at the Frome Sports Complex to begin the 2015-16 Red Stripe Premier League season in fine style. The win came thanks to an 81st-minute headed goal...

Reno's Downswell hoping for a better season

Published:Friday | September 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau Hope abounds for a completely better season for Reno FC in the Red Stripe Premier League, as confirmed by their technical director Wendell Downswell, following the club’s flirt with relegation last season. Downswell told ...

STETHS aim for title sweep

Published:Friday | September 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

WESTERN BUREAU:Having stumbled at the final hurdle last year - losing out on retaining their daCosta Cup title to Clarendon College - St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) will be looking to get it right.Such is the ambition of the school's...

Cornwall ready for title charge

Published:Monday | August 31, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

WESTERN BUREAU:Thirteen years. That is how long daCosta Cup's most successful school, Cornwall College, have not lifted a title.All that could change if everything aligns as planned this year by head coach Dr Dean Weatherly."Based on the experience...

Kaliese Spencer's family in tears, disappointed, after she failed in Beijing

Published:Wednesday | August 26, 2015 | 3:47 PMPaul Clarke

Disappointment stretched across the Atlantic Ocean for Kaliese Spencer's family, as between her mother in Darliston, Westmoreland, and her father living in Toronto, Canada, there were many questions and tears flowing following her last-place finish...

Lawrence: Rusea’s ready to deliver special 2015

Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:Four football titles will be on offer for rural high schools next season, but none more important than the highly coveted daCosta Cup, the undisputed symbol of rural schoolboys football supremacy.Aaron Lawrence, coach of many-time...

Progressive Group remains Trelawny Under-17 football league sponsor

Published:Monday | August 17, 2015 | 5:53 PMPaul Clarke

WESTERN BUREAU:Businessman Ryan Keating, through his Progressive Group, has vowed to stay on as title sponsor of the Trelawny FA Under-17 youth football league.This follows Sunday's thrilling final between Clarks Town and Village United at the...

CUMI Come Run inks million-dollar deal with Wisynco

Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

WESTERN BUREAU:The 2015 staging of the CUMI (Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill) Come Run 5K and 10K Road races is set to attract its biggest number of participants in the seven years since its inception, with early projections...

Clarks Town, Village in Trelawny U-17 football final

Published:Thursday | August 13, 2015 | 4:45 PMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:THE RYAN Keating (Linton Progressive Group) Trelawny FA Under-17 football competition has reached its climax with Village United and Clarks Town to square off in the final, set for Sunday at the Elliston Wakeland Centre in Falmouth....

Black River Day... the catalyst for growth

Published:Friday | August 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

The primary stakeholders behind the 2015 staging of Black River Day, which unfolded in the St Elizabeth capital last Friday, are quite elated as the third edition of the event was an overwhelming success.Black River's mayor, Councillor Everton...

Constant Spring cop inaugural masters crown

Published:Friday | August 7, 2015 | 1:26 PMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:Constant Spring Masters crowned themselves champions of the inaugural Digicel Jamaica International Masters Football Tournament last Saturday when they defeated Jamaica Brazil 4-2 on penalties in the championship game at the Westpow...

No pool, no problem: Blue Marlin Swim Club looks to the future

Published:Friday | August 7, 2015 | 2:21 PMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:Two years following the targeted destruction of its pool, the Blue Marlin Swim Club is still searching for a home, but some good news may be on the horizon for the club's director, Rosemarie Logan.In 2013, vandals entered the Montego...

Doug Gore rips competition with Audi ‘built for speed’

Published:Tuesday | August 4, 2015 | 3:17 PMPaul Clarke

MOTORSPORTS:(SUB DECK) Gore rips competition with super fast Audi at Emancipation meetPaul ClarkeGleaner WriterWESTERN BUREAU:Doug 'Hollywood' Gore was back to his supreme best at Sunday's Emancipation of Speed racemeet at Jamwest Speedway in Negril...

Dom Rep join Jamaica atop Hoerman Cup leader board

Published:Thursday | July 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:Jamaica's Jonathan Newham equalled his second-round 71 to lead the individual race in the Caribbean Golf Championship Hoerman Cup at the Half Moon Golf Course in Montego Bay yesterday.Newham's score puts him one under par for the day...

Jamaica atop Hoerman Cup standings ... Confident of finishing well at Caribbean Golf Championship

Published:Wednesday | July 29, 2015 | 6:46 PMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:Jonathan Newham had to overcome strong winds on Day Two of the Caribbean Golf Championship, Hoerman Cup, to fire a safe 71 at the Cinnamon Hill Golf Course, Montego Bay yesterday to pull team Jamaica into the lead.Newham and teammate...

Gangsters attack bus, pregnant woman shot

Published:Tuesday | July 28, 2015 | 12:46 PMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:A 20-year-old St James man is now in police custody after he was arrested at the scene of an incident in which a passenger bus was shot up in Haddo, Westmoreland, shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Monday, resulting in injuries to three...

Young Westmoreland footballer wants to make it to the top

Published:Tuesday | July 28, 2015 | 5:22 PMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:National Under-15 representative Shane Ricketts is brimming with optimism after the senior Reggae Boyz fell just shy of a historic first hold on the CONCACAF Gold Cup title on Sunday.Ricketts, who plays on the right of defence for...

Massive ‘Black River Day’ anticipated

Published:Friday | July 24, 2015 | 4:33 PMPaul Clarke

The town of Black River, St Elizabeth, is poised to become a hotbed of excitement this coming Friday (July 31) as the St Elizabeth Parish Council, in collaboration with the George 'GT' Taylor-led Black River Chamber of Commerce, will be staging the...

Save sports, support the parish

Published:Monday | July 20, 2015 | 9:26 AMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:Everton Tomlinson, president of the Westmoreland Football Association, believes sports, recreation and entertainment could create a powerful platform to combat social decay in the town of Savanna-la-Mar and its environs.Tomlinson, who...

11-year-old Rin Giles creating waves in the pool

Published:Monday | July 20, 2015 | 6:18 PMPaul Clarke

Western Bureau:Jamaica has produced several good swimmers over the years, and it would appear that the production line is again being revved up to throw up another potential star in 11-year-old Rin Giles from Mt Alvernia Prep School.The swimming...

Reggae Sumfest 2015: Jesse Royal and Kabaka Pyramid deliver potent lyrics, brilliant performances

Published:Saturday | July 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke, Gleaner Writer

Jesse Royal, the reggae singer from Maroon Town is perhaps one of the most underrated artistes in Jamaica, but his performance at Reggae Sumfest served a clear reminder of his potent talent. Royal took the stage at 11:45 p.m. and quickly delved...

Reggae Sumfest 2015: Raging Fyah's inferno performance scorches Sumfest stage

Published:Saturday | July 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke, Gleaner Writer

Roots, rock, reggae Band Raging Fyah scorched the Sumfest stage with a blistering set lasting twenty-five minutes and left the patrons inside the Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre wanting more. It was their first ever performance at summer reggae...

Reggae Sumfest 2015: Jesse Royal, Kabaka Pyramid heat up Sumfest

Published:Saturday | July 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke, Gleaner Writer

Jesse Royal, the reggae singer from Maroon Town is perhaps one of the most underrated artistes in Jamaica, but his performance at Reggae Sumfest served as a clear reminder of his potent talent. Royal took the stage at 11:45 p.m. and quickly delved...

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