Fri | Apr 19, 2024

Stories by Livingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Published:Thursday | February 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

CHAIRMAN OF Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) Christopher Williams reaffirmed his commitment to ensuring that local footballers earn sufficiently from playing in the Jamaica Premier League during the announcement of a renewal of a...

Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2024 | 12:14 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

THE OPENING day of the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) was thrown into a tailspin after Royal Lakes of St Catherine and Rangers FC of Portland, reportedly, withdrew a day before the competition. The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) had come...

Published:Tuesday | February 20, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

With several senior Reggae Girlz still making themselves unavailable due to their impasse with the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), and with a few experienced players missing, coach Xavier Gilbert is anticipating two very tough friendly...

Published:Monday | February 19, 2024 | 12:19 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Waterhouse moved back into sixth place in the Jamaica Premier League, but only on goal difference ahead of Dunbeholden, after their 0-0 draw with arch rivals Arnett Gardens at the Drewsland Mini-Stadium yesterday. Dunbeholden (27 points) had surged...

Published:Monday | February 19, 2024 | 12:18 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

General secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Dennis Chung insists that the late withdrawal of two teams, which disrupted the start of the 2024 Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) on Saturday, was beyond their control but that they...

Published:Saturday | February 17, 2024 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

The return of the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) last year was not without its challenges. However, for the 2024 season, chairperson for women’s football, Elaine Walker-Brown, is expecting a much-improved competition. Walker-Brown said the...

Published:Saturday | February 17, 2024 | 12:07 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

In January 2020, just before the COVID-19 outbreak, Olympic Games diver Yona Knight-Wisdom hosted his first-ever diving camp, at the National Stadium Pool. Four years on, the 28-year-old who became the nation’s first Olympic diver when he...

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2024 | 12:14 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

MICHAEL RICKETTS, president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), says a new date for the organisation’s election will be announced after the board meets at the end of this week. The JFF election was originally set for January 14, however,...

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

SHERWIN WILLIAMS, long-time sponsor of the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL), will return to take up the mantle for the 2024 season scheduled to kick off this Saturday with 10 teams. Sherwin Williams has been the only corporate sponsor the...

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica Premier League (JPL) clubs and players will now have the opportunity to assess their performances, game by game, following a three-year partnership the Jamaica Professional Football Limited (PFJL) recently forged with online statistical...

Published:Monday | February 12, 2024 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Dennis Chung, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) general secretary, says the federation made significant strides last year with its financial governance, and those improvements resulted in a surplus of more than $60 million for the organisation...

Published:Saturday | February 10, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

THE PAT Garel-led Beach Soccer Jamaica (BSJ) says it will appeal yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling which denied an application for the continuation of the temporary injunction barring the holding of an election by the Jamaica Football Federation (...

Published:Saturday | February 10, 2024 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s swimmers will bow into action at the World Aquatics Championship in Doha, Qatar tomorrow and United Kingdom-born swimmer Jessica Calderbank will get things going in the 100m butterfly. Four swimmers are representing Jamaica at the...

Published:Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

DESPITE FINISHING 14th in the semi-finals of the three-metre springboard dive at the World Aquatics Championship in Doha, Qatar, yesterday and failing to make the final, Jamaican diver Yona Knight-Wisdom secured his third straight qualification to...

Published:Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

THE JAMAICA Football Federation (JFF) and the Pat Garel-led Beach Soccer Jamaica (BSJ) will present their cases to the court tomorrow. The parties are to decide if the BSJ’s claims to have been disenfranchised ahead of a JFF election have merit. In...

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICAN DIVER Yona Knight-Wisdom advanced to the semifinals of the men’s three-metre springboard at the World Aquatics Championship in Doha, Qatar, finishing 11th of 70 in the preliminaries yesterday. Jamaica’s other participant in the event,...

Published:Tuesday | February 6, 2024 | 12:06 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s number one seed Blaise Bicknell has taken full responsibility for Jamaica’s defeat to Barbados in their Davis Cup World Group II playoff at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre on the weekend. Coming into Sunday’s final day tied 1-1, after...

Published:Monday | February 5, 2024 | 12:12 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat at the hands of regional rivals Barbados in their World Group II ATP Davis Cup tie at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre in Kingston yesterday. The defeat sent Jamaica down to Group III. The teams went into...

Published:Monday | February 5, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

After a number of years playing in Germany youth leagues for SC Bonner and Fortuna Koln, then in Belgium for URSL Visé, Phoenix Academy graduate Alexander Bicknell has earned a move to Portuguese second division club Leixoes SC. The 18-year-old...

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2024 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Assistant coach of the Reggae Boyz, Merron Gordon, said the coaching staff has been very impressed with how quickly the local-based players are adapting to the new concepts after they engaged Clarendon Premier League teams Vere United and Humble...

Published:Thursday | February 1, 2024 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S HOCKEY5S turned in their best performance at the FIH Hockey5 World Cup in Muscat, Oman, in their final game yesterday but still came up short of victory, losing 4-2 to Fiji in a playoff for 15th place. The result means Jamaica, who lost...

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

INTERIM GENERAL manager of the Sports Development Foundation (SDF) Leslie Harrow said the organisation’s main focus in 2024 is to continue its community facilities’ development project. Harrow, who has been in the post for nearly six months now,...

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S HOCKEY5S team will close out their maiden World Cup tournament appearance in Muscat, Oman, today when they take on Fiji in their final match of the tournament for 15th place. Yesterday, the Jamaicans lost the 13th- and 14th-place playoff...

Published:Tuesday | January 30, 2024 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica Hockey5s World Cup coach Duvaughn Henlon is hoping that his players have learnt a lot from their three games so far at their maiden World Cup tournament, currently on in Muscat, Oman, and will use it to end the tournament on a high. The...

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Molynes United pulled further away from the bottom two in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) yesterday after a 3-2 win over Humble Lion at the Stadium East field. In a game of two halves, Molynes ripped their opponents apart in the first half and...

Pages

Subscribe to Livingston Scott/Gleaner Writer