FORMER INTER-SECONDARY Schools Sports Association (ISSA) president, Dr Walton Small, said former competitions officer and close ally George Forbes was the person he leaned on during his 12 years in office, and that his influence on the organisation...
JAMAICA’S REGGAE Boyz and the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon will square off in their first-ever meeting at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo in the African country today at noon, and Jamaica coach Heimir Hallgrimsson believes it will be a good test for the...
Former Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) competitions officer, George Forbes, passed away early Tuesday evening from a long illness The Gleaner has learned. The highly regarded sports administrator, who served ISSA for 18 years,...
ASTON VILLA forward Leon Bailey has joined the voices of those questioning the way the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system is used in England after Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez escaped punishment for a double elbow on the Jamaican...
Harbour View destroyed Dundeholden 4-1 in a repeat of last season’s Jamaica Premier League (JPL) final at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday. Nicholas Hamilton led the way for the ‘Stars of the East’ with a brace (34th and 86th minutes...
The scheduling of Jamaica Premier League (JPL) games for Monday night’s televised fixtures has once again come into question, as many football fans were left scratching their heads last week after learning that the Portmore United versus Vere...
The Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) will lose their automatic spot in the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Tier Two competition if they fail to take up their slot this season. The first season of the National Tier Two...
THE OUTSTANDING performances of world under-20 triple jump champion Jaydon Hibbert have placed him among the elite of junior athletics and in the running for the 2022 World Athletics Men’s Rising Star award. Hibbert was among five athletes named by...
OUTGOING KINGSTON and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) president Wayne Shaw has described a letter criticising his leadership and the association’s handling of a recent general meeting “disingenuous”. The letter, from SUFC (Shortwood United...
KINGSTON AND St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) was well run over the last five years, said Wayne Shaw, after tendering his resignation as president on Tuesday night. Shaw, who spent five years in the role, did not disclose his reasons for...
JAMAICAN RALLYCROSS driver Fraser McConnell is thanking his team for helping to produce the perfect weekend of racing. McConnell, speaking after his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport on Monday night, said on a small track in Los...
MANNING CUP coach of Pembroke Hall High Marvin Thompson is questioning the integrity of the Keith Wellington-led Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), in response to a Gleaner article published on Wednesday, October 19, regarding...
When Dennis Chung begins his role as the new Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) general secretary on November 1, he will have the gigantic task of improving the management and operations of an administration labelled as incompetent. However, the...
Grenada kept their hopes for a spot in next year’s Netball World Cup alive after scoring a 58-36 win over the United States at the Americas Netball World Cup qualifiers at the National Indoor Sports Centre last night The win moved Grenada to eight...
AS THE Americas Netball World Cup qualifiers continues inside the National Indoor Sports Centre, Barbados, after getting past a game St Vincent and the Grenadines, 57-36 to notch their fifth win of the competition, are almost certainly one of the...
NEEDING TO win to solidify their place in the second round of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup competition, Norman Manley fell 2-1 to Dunoon Technical in their Group D match at Excelsior high school yesterday. However, the Maxfield Park-based school...
IF HYDEL High School take a point from runaway Group E winners Mona in their final group match on Friday, it will virtually secure their passage to the second round of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup. The Ferry-based school has come under intense...
Reggae Girlz coach Lorne Donaldson has revealed that he has invited former captain Konya Plummer to the training camp for their two friendly games against Paraguay next month. Plummer, who gave birth in recent months, has not played competitively...
Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls cruised to a 74-36 win over St Vincent and Grenadines in their opening game of the Americas World Cup qualification at the National Indoor Sports Centre earlier tonight. Jamaica led their opponents 18-8 after the first...
Trinidad and Tobago defeated St Lucia 63-25 for a second impressive win from as many starts in the Americas Netball World Cup Qualifiers at the National Indoor Sports Centre last night. In their opening match early yesterday, they got the better of...
CAMPION COLLEGE are a step closer to qualifying for the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup second round for the first time in nearly 30 years after defeating Cumberland High School 4-0 at Campion College yesterday. Goals from Kai Myles, Djaz Less, Bryan...
DESPITE HAVING to wait three months for contracts with the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) to be finalised, Reggae Girlz coach Lorne Donaldson said there were no headaches over the process. Donaldson was appointed as Vin Blaine’s replacement...
CAMPERDOWN’S HOPES of securing a second-round berth in the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup received a severe blow after they played to a 0-0 draw with Hydel in their Group E match at the Royal Lakes field yesterday. The result left Camperdown on eight...
‘DI OLE Marina’ beach in Portland comes alive for the next five days with the staging of the Port Antonio Canoe Tournament, which sails off today at 7:00 a.m., and the 59th International Marlin Fishing Tournament, which also begins today. A record...
Although rain threatened to put a damper on the inaugural Downy Tennis Classic, held at Tryall Golf and Country Club last weekend, the event turned out better than expected, said tournament organiser Simon Casserley. Dwayne Pagon took the major...
