WHILE SOME local Premier League clubs are not in support of the new Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) under-20 league that is coming on stream this summer, others are fully behind the project. Paul Christie, Dunbeholden manager, believes an amatuer...
JAMAICA’S UNDER-20 captain, Christopher Pearson, is relishing the role of leading the young Reggae Boyz into the upcoming Concacaf Under-20 Championship, set to take place in Mexico from June 18 to July 4. The Kingston College midfielder believes...
FORMER GREAT Britain gymnastics prodigy Tyesha Mattis and her sister China are both in Jamaica completing a naturalisation process with a view to turning out for Jamaica. Mattis has had an injury-plagued career since becoming a senior in 2014 but...
A week after Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz threatened to boycott their Concacaf A League, Group A Nations League game against Suriname, if Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) general secretary Dalton Wint did not hand in his resignation to the federation,...
Tivoli Gardens defeated Cavalier 1-0 in their Jamaica Premier League (JPL) final-round game at the UWI-Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence yesterday but failed to secure the final playoff spot after Harbour View held Dunbeholden to a 1-1...
When swimmers Keanan Dols and Kito Campbell compete at the FINA World Championships in Hungary, from June 17-23, they will have to do so without a national coach to guide them. Gillian Millwood, the coach selected by the Aquatic Sports Association...
Reggae Girlz coach Lorne Donaldson has called on football fans to put the recent break-up with former coach Vin Blaine in the past and throw their support behind the team for the upcoming Concacaf Women’s Championship in Mexico, July 4-18....
DALTON WINT is still the general secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and is making further demands ahead of his promise to resign from the organisation following a blow-up with players over the course of this last week. Wint, who was...
A LETTER has been circulated suggesting Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president, Michael Ricketts, has committed to paying outgoing general secretary, Dalton Wint’s salary for the duration of his contract, which runs to December 2023. Wint had...
YOUNG SWIMMING sensation Christanya Shirley was the highlight of Jamaica’s performers at the Pan American Age Group Swimming Championships, held in Trinidad and Tobago from May 2-5. Competing in the 13-14 age group, Shirley won six of Jamaica’s 18...
Jamaica’s senior footballers and the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) are at loggerheads following faulty travel arrangements for the team to and from Suriname for their Concacaf Nations Cup game in Paramaribo last Saturday. The upset players...
Portmore United turned back Molynes United 1-0 in a Jamaica Premier League (JPL) match at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday. Shai Smith netted the game’s only goal in first-half added time, and coach Phillip Williams, who was getting...
Dunbeholden FC fans are calling for the return of coach Harold Thomas. They strongly believe that if their team is to upstage the traditional big clubs and win the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) for a first time this season, then they need Thomas on...
NEWLY APPOINTED Reggae Girlz coach Lorne Donaldson said he is cognisant of the limited time before the start of the Concacaf Women’s Championship, which also serves as qualifiers to the World Cup and Olympics, in Mexico from July 4-18. The Reggae...
The local football fraternity is mourning the death of legendary schoolboy footballer, Dennis ‘Den Den’ Hutchinson, who passed away Wednesday morning after a prolonged illness. Hutchinson, also an outstanding basketball coach, who led Tivoli All...
JAMAICAN BOXER Richard ‘Frog’ Holmes is bitterly disappointed after missing his welterweight contest against Josh Wagner at the CAA Centre in Brampton, Canada, on Saturday because of visa delays. Holmes had trained relentlessly over the last two...
RICARDO ‘BIG 12’ Brown recorded his third straight victory as a professional boxer over Mexican Santiago Martinez Perez in their heavyweight bout at the CAA Centre in Brampton, Canada, on Saturday. Although the win saw Brown recording an impressive...
Mount Pleasant Football Academy continued their return to form in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) with a 1-0 win over Arnett Gardens at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday, a result which lifted them above their opponents to third in...
Secretary of the Aquatic Sports Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) Shauna Jackson says the association has taken steps to reduce the cost of sending a 15-member team to the Pan American Aquatic Championships in Trinidad and Tobago, June 2-5. Although...
JAMAICA’S FIRST Olympic alpine skier, Benjamin Alexander, is now in the island putting plans in place to ensure that the Caribbean country has a bigger pool of athletes to represent it at the next winter games in Italy in 2026. Although Jamaica has...
FORMER NATIONAL women’s coach, Charles Edwards, and Bradley Stewart believe that for the Reggae Girlz to be successful at the Concacaf Women’s Championship in Mexico in July, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) will need a coach already familiar...
FORMER SENIOR Reggae Girlz head coach Vin Blaine, who officially resigned the post yesterday, says he will never coach again. “This [coaching] chapter of my life is over. It is now up to me to concentrate on what else I can do but I am waiting now...
Vin Blaine, today, officially tendered his resignation as national women's football coach. Blaine’s job came under scrutiny recently after 20 members of the Reggae Girlz squad signed a letter to Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Michael...
All 22 members of Jamaica’s table tennis delegation who were stranded in the Dominican Republic, following a work stoppage by the Jamaica Air Traffic Controllers Association last Thursday, are now back in the island. Jamaica Table Tennis...
Senior Reggae Girlz coach Vin Blaine, in a shock announcement yesterday, declared that he will be handing in his resignation after only six months in the job. He admitted disappointment at not being able to see out the team’s World Cup qualifying...
