WESTERN BUREAU: Odane Reid, president and founder of the ICare Jamaica Foundation, is proud that his charity was able to host its annual back-to-school drive despite the coronavirus pandemic. And for the first time, children from the disabled...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HARRIET Hall Foundation (HHF), a non-profit Montego Bay-based organisation, which offered scholarships to three Mount Alvernia High School students last year, has decided to expand its programme by adding seven new beneficiaries...
Western Bureau: Netball stakeholders in western Jamaica believe that while the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) netball competitions are important to the development of the sport in the region, caution must be observed ahead of...
Western Bureau: After witnessing the tragic incident in which their mother was murdered by their 17-year-old uncle last Tuesday, three children who are facing an uncertain future are now on the radar of the Child Protection and Family Services...
WESTERN BUREAU: The G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport will today stage a candlelight vigil in memory of former students’ council president, Romaro Clarke. Clarke was reportedly killed when the Mitsubishi Lancer he was driving...
Western Bureau: The advent of COVID-19 has created a new challenge for diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease as, despite their conditions, they are forced, at least twice per week, to operate within the restrictions as it relates to social...
Western Bureau: President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Michael Ricketts dismissed criticism of their handling of travel arrangements for national players and teams. He noted that the federation doesn't have the funds available to make...
Western Bureau: Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) President Michael Ricketts says he will not discuss the competence of General Secretary Dalton Wint in the public domain. But Ricketts said he will “sit down and have a discussion with him” after...
Western Bureau: ORGANISING COMMITTEE chairman Albert Ferguson says the cancellation of the Western Primary Schools Championships for this year negatively impacts prominent schools involved but could bring parity for lower-ranked ones. The meet...
Western Bureau: THE MOBAY City Run organisers have reconsidered the event’s cancellation. Organising committee chairperson Janet Silvera said on Sunday, the day the event was to have taken place, that the seventh staging of the 5K/10K Walk and Run...
Western Bureau: A number of swimming officials in western Jamaica say that the region’s struggles with underdevelopment will continue even if the COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control. They say this is because they still lack proper pools to...
Western Bureau: Local road-racing organisers are considering the idea of going virtual with 5K events because of restrictions on mass gatherings due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Race organiser Alan Beckford has already had a trial run...
Western Bureau: Faulkland FC president Dalton Reid has accused the disciplinary committee of the Western Confederation Super League of being ‘improperly constituted.’ Reid said the body reached a wrong verdict last week regarding sanctions against...
Western Bureau: National senior men’s football team manager Roy Simpson says that the onus is on the players to keep themselves motivated and in good physical conditioning during the inactive period for sports because of the novel coronavirus...
Western Bureau: Despite not producing the most convincing performance in a laboured 2-0 win over Bermuda on Wednesday, assistant coach Jerome Waite says the local-based Reggae Boyz contingent will get other opportunities to be assessed and...
Western Bureau: After only competing in one event on Saturday’s final day of the Western Championships at St Elizabeth Technical, Petersfield High School’s Antonio Watson said he is now focused on being in the best of shape for Boys’ Championships...
Western Bureau: Defending champions Rusea’s High School and St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) promise an exciting 2020 County of Cornwall Athletic Association (COCAA) Western Championship as the boys’ qualifiers get under way this morning...
Western Bureau: Jamaica Paralympic Association (JPA) President Christopher Samuda said the body is looking to further its objective of developing para sports islandwide, starting with constituting the St James Para Federation. He was speaking at...
Western Bureau: Herbert Morrison Technical High School is confident that they can extend their ISSA Western Conference Basketball Under-16 and -19 titles to six straight when they take on St James High and York Castle High, respectively, at the...
Western Bureau Ray Harvey, chairman of the organising committee of the Milo Western Relays, said the absence of the synthetic track in Montego Bay has a negative effect on the development of the sport in western Jamaica. Harvey was speaking at...
Western Bureau: Everton Tomlinson, president of the Westmoreland Football Association, applauded the Sandals Foundation/Real Madrid Foundation six-day football clinic, particularly the coaches’ clinic element, which he believes will have a great...
Western Bureau: With rural teams breaking the trend and dominating the local football scene this season, president of the Inter Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), Keith Wellington, is not reading too much into the recent results but said...
Western Bureau: After their first back-to-back daCosta Cup titles since 1990, Clarendon College (CC) will go in hunt of a feat that has not been met in 48 years, when they face Manning Cup champions Jamaica College (JC) for the Olivier Shield on...
Western Bureau: B.B. Coke High School celebrated their ISSA Ben Francis Cup in grand style with a motorcade in Junction, St Elizabeth yesterday. The motorcade that lasted almost an hour went from the school, through communities of Comma Pen,...
Western Bureau: Head coach of B.B. Coke High School Kemar Ricketts insists there is no pressure on his team to win their first-ever schoolboy football title ahead of their ISSA Ben Francis Cup final against Garvey Maceo at 2:30 p.m, at the...
