The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is sticking to its position as an umpires’ boycott threatens to disrupt this weekend’s Carib Beer Series sixth-round matches.
President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Captain Horace Burell, has been appointed Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Standing Committee.
West Indies selectors have dumped Jamaican batsman Brenton Parchment and Trinidad and Tobago’s captain Daren Ganga for the opening Test against Sri Lanka, starting next Saturday in Guyana.
The Supligen-sponsored Kingston and St. Andrew Football Association’s Under-20 League for the Leighton Duncan Trophy continues this afternoon with three Zone Two games.
The country’s national knockout football competition, the Champions Cup, will kick off on Tuesday, March 18 with the City of Kingston Co-operative Credit Union (COK) as the new title sponsors.
Jamaica’s top junior tennis players will compete at the Junior Davis Cup and Federation Cup 16 and under events at the Central American and Caribbean regional tournaments in Honduras.
Former world youth silver medallist, Natasha Ruddock was in good form at the weekend with a record run at the National Junior College Athletics Association Indoor Track and Field Championships in Illinois, USA.
Portmore United last night maintained its one-point lead atop the Cash Plus Premier League football standings following a 2-0 victory against St. Georges at Ferdie Neita Park, in Portmore.
Former West Indies players Courtney Walsh, Ian Bishop, Desmond Haynes and Andy Roberts are back on the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Cricket Committee.
World Junior champion Ramone McKenzie and World Youth bronze medallist Yohan Blake are among 70 athletes selected to represent Jamaica at the 2008 CARIFTA Games on Easter weekend.
All-rounder Donavan Nelson of St. Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) will lead Jamaica in the 2008 CLICO-sponsored West Indies Under 15 cricket tournament in Dominica this month.