Principal of Kingston College, Dave Myrie, has put all other high schools in Jamaica on notice that his boys will be coming for more trophies this school year.Myrie made the comments at 2A North Street yesterday morning as students, past students...
Cricket West Indies President Dave Cameron has hailed the social and economic impact of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) across the Caribbean, pointing to a study carried out by sports research company SMG Insight in 2017.The data, Cameron...
General Secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Dalton Wint says the board of directors of the federation will be meeting in the coming weeks to decide how to deal with the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) following...
The government of Chile has long been using football to curb some of its social ills, and now, it is extending one of its social-intervention programmes, Fundacion Futbol Mas (Foundation Football Plus), to the borders of Jamaica.The programme was...
The third staging of the Jamaica Classic for gymnastics is scheduled for this weekend at the National Indoor Sports Centre, and president of the Jamaica Amateur Gymnastics Association (JAGA) Nicole Grant-Brown said over 600 gymnasts are down to...
The athletics track at the Montego Bay Sports Complex has been in deplorable condition and will not host any track meets for the 2019 athletic calendar, president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association, Dr Warren Blake, has confirmed....
Still reeling from the misfortune of the Jamaica Under-20 team that exited the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship and, by extension, the FIFA Under-20 World Cup qualifiers recently, Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Michael Ricketts has...
Cricket West Indies President Dave Cameron is hoping that the US$253,000 ($31.9 million) the board has dished out to the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) to secure a health insurance plan for retained players from all six regional franchises...
Tyreek Magee, who was outstanding for the National Under-20 team at the just-concluded World Cup qualifiers, along with five other Under-19 players, left the island yesterday for a talent showpiece at the Braga Football Academy in Portugal.The Braga...
An announcement that the Ministry of Sport will be streamlining public entities in sports such as the Institute of Sports (INSPORT), Independence Park Limited (IPL) and Sports Development Foundation (SDF) has not gone down well with some...
Unified World heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, believes Jamaica will again produce some of the world's finest boxers as he labelled the island as a "breeding ground for great athletes".Joshua, whose last fight was a technical knockout victory...
No one is happier than Major Desmon Brown that the National Stadium is set to undergo a major repair next year.Brown, who is the general manager of Independence Park Limited, which manages the venue, said the facility has been operating below...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia 'Babsy' Grange has always espoused gender equality.She seems to want to spread that message to children at primary schools as she has ensure that the prize money for the Institute of Sports...
St Catherine High School and Excelsior High are two evenly matched teams.Even at the semi-final stage of the Walker Cup football competition, the teams have won the same number of games and have only been beaten two times. The two schools have...
President of the Professional Football Association of Jamaica (PFAJ), Don Anderson, said the organisation will meet later this week to discuss the readiness of the UWI Mona Bowl to host Red Stripe Premier League football.For the second time in the...
Chairman of Tivoli Gardens FC, Edward Seaga, says they have spent more than $6 million on major improvement work on the Edward Seaga Sports Complex, including the reinstallation of lights at the facility.With new lighting in place, Tivoli will host...
Daniel Riley, coach of Excelsior High School, believes that copping the Walker Cup KO title could inject the impetus his school needs to get back to its glory days in schoolboy football.Excelsior beat Denham Town High school 2-0 yesterday at the...
Boxer George 'Bunny' Grant, a former Commonwealth lightweight champion, has died.Grant died at his home yesterday after suffering a second stroke last week, his son Junior Grant told The Gleaner.Grant was one of Jamaica's best boxers in the 1960s...
If their forms this season are anything to go by, today's ISSA Champions Cup match between St George's College and Garvey Maceo High School could head for penalties as both teams have been defensively sound.Garvey Maceo, who were knocked out of the...
In keeping with its mandate of facilitating dreams and actualising goals of Jamaican athletes, the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has been hosting a series of workshops dubbed 'Stamina' to improve the capabilities of its 41 members associations....
CEO of the Jamaica Olympic Association Ryan Foster says the association will be working with its member associations to raise the profile of the Youth Summer Olympic Games.Fosters admits that Jamaica has not bought into the concept of the Youth...
Recently hired national surfing coach, Ben Bourgeois, believes Jamaican surfers can make it to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.Twenty teams will be given the chance to participate in surfing at the next Olympic Games for the first time and...
The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has taken another step to enrich the country's Olympic movement through the revamped and relaunch of its website as it seeks to expose Jamaica's Olympic legacy.Along with the new look website, the JOA has also...
Licensed associate applied sports psychologist Olivia Rose says Jamaica's sports professionals should develop mental toughness, as the world of sport is still full of racism.Rose's comments came after a television host in Australia compared European...
National Junior record holder in the 100m hurdles Daeshon Gordon passed away yesterday morning, Northwestern State University (NSU) has confirmed.Gordon, who was completing studies for an undergraduate degree after an outstanding collegiate career,...
