The sport of golf was one of the very few activities that was able to manoeuvre through the global pandemic in 2020. Locally, the Jamaica Golf Association was able to stage several key tournaments despite the coronavirus, albeit under strict...
The professional team held off a resolute amateur team to put their hands on the first-ever Rose Cup team match-play golf competition, following the final day of competition in the two-day event at the Caymanas Golf Club. With the match all squared...
Jamaican middle-order batsman Andre McCarthy is one of many new faces that will be touring with the West Indies for their three One-Day Internationals (ODI) and two Tests matches in Bangladesh next month. McCarthy has been named in the ODI squad,...
The Caymanas Golf Club in St Catherine will host the inaugural Rose Cup golf tournament on December 29 and 30. The Ryder Cup-style team-play tournament will feature Jamaica’s top professional golf players going up against their amateur counterparts...
American Erik Barnes and national amateur champion William Knibbs held off the field to capture the professional and amateur sections, respectively, at the 53rd Jamaica Open at Tryall Golf Club. Barnes, who was playing in Jamaica for the first time...
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons said the second day's play of the second Test against New Zealand was a hard day of cricket to watch, as his side was totally outplayed by the hosts at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. At stumps, the West...
Jamaica’s top professional and amateur golfers Wesley Brown and Justin Burrowes are putting in their final preparations ahead of the start of the Jamaica Open at the Tryall Club in Montego Bay this weekend. Brown is keen on improving on his ninth-...
Former national senior men’s cricket team coach Junior Bennett believes Jamaican opener John Campbell is one good knock away from rediscovering his form with the West Indies team. Campbell has been having a difficult time on the tour of New Zealand...
Jamaican middle-order batsman Jermaine Blackwood says he felt less pressure getting to his second career Test hundred than on previous attempts to do so. Blackwood followed up his first innings 23 with a well-played 104 in the second innings...
West Indies pacer Kemar Roach said the career-best innings of 251 from New Zealand captain Kane Williamson was one of the best he has seen. Roach and the rest of the West Indies bowlers were on the receiving end of a batting masterclass from the...
Motorsports is set to have its first official event this year since the pandemic, as the Jamaica Karting Association (JKA) is in line to get the green light from the Ministry of Health and Wellness to resume racing at the Palisadoes Track. Board...
The West Indies were made to chase leather on the rain-affected opening day of the first Test against New Zealand, as the home side dominated preceding’s thanks to half-centuries from Tom Latham and captain Kane Williamson. At stumps on day one,...
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons says he wants the team to get back up to the higher end of the Test cricket table and that that should start with the first Test against hosts New Zealand in Hamilton today at 5 p.m. Jamaica time. The West Indies...
Captain Kieron Pollard has issued a warning to teammates that they may be cut from the West Indies Twenty20 (T20) International team if their attitude to games does not change. Pollard’s comments follow a 2-0 series defeat to hosts New Zealand...
West Indies Twenty20 (T20) captain Kieron Pollard says despite the opening loss, his side will continue to fight and put in a much-improved performance when the regional side meet New Zealand in the second of three T20 Internationals at Mount...
Two of Jamaica’s most iconic cricketers, Chris Gayle and Stafanie Taylor, are in line to pick up international awards as they and Barbadian Deandra Dottin have been nominated for ICC Awards of the Decade. The awards, a special edition of the ICC...
Jamaica Cricket Association Chief Executive Officer Courtney Francis says he would love if Jamaica could win the T20 Blaze Women’s competition next year and represent the region at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, in 2022. The...
November 25, 2020 marked one of the darkest days in the history of football, with the passing of one of its most iconic and legendary figures, Argentinian footballing great Diego Maradona. Maradona died from a heart attack at the age of 60, sending...
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons says only big performances from his batsmen will shore up a place in his team as the regional side gets ready to take on New Zealand ‘A’ in a four-day warm-up match starting today. Simmons made it clear that all...
For the first time in the history of Rally Jamaica, there will be no event because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rally Jamaica organiser Larry Henriques confirmed the news with The Gleaner yesterday that the 2020 edition had to be cancelled after the...
Justin Burrowes pulled off a remarkable comeback on the second and final day of the Alliance Buccaneer Memorial Golf tournament to claim victory by five strokes at the Caymanas Golf Club in St Catherine yesterday. Burrowes came into the final day...
Justin Burrowes has moved up 24 places on the World Amateur Golf Ranking which was released recently. After his second-place finish at the National Amateur Championship in July, Burrowes is now ranked 1,042 among the 6881 men’s amateur golfers...
Friends of Football player representative and Tivoli Gardens striker Newton Sterling says the entity, which is seeking to become the official players union for local footballers, has been receiving pushback from some clubs and players who are...
Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Ricky Skerritt used the forum of the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Virtual Lecture on Monday night to outline some significant changes his regional body intends to implement with regard to governance and policies....
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons is calling for consistency and understanding of situations when they face New Zealand in Twenty20 (T20) and Test matches, starting this month. Simmons and the rest of the West Indies contingent are acclimatising...
