JAMAICA CYCLING Association head coach, Carlton Simmonds, says there is direct correlation between the Olympic qualification system and the country’s decline in the sport. Simmonds explained that the nature of qualification requires significant...
EXPERIENCED LOCAL coach Phillip Williams is happy to be part of the restructuring of 2022-23 beaten Jamaica Premier League (JPL) finalists Dunbeholden in the capacity of head coach. “I’m elated to join the Dunbeholden family, they’re undertaking a...
THE YEAR 2023 was possibly one of the most testing times for national netball representative Latanya Wilson. The highly rated player lost the majority of her personal belongings when her Rum Lane home was ravaged by fire. One year later, the now 23...
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW SAYEED Bernard, one of four lawyers along with Emir Crowne, Jason Jones, and Matthew Gayle, representing judo athlete Ebony Drysdale-Daley, is disappointed with the way the Jamaica Judo Association (JJA) is treating his client. “We...
CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) announcement that it will be employing new selection processes in tandem with the non-renewal of contracts for chief selelctors, Desmond Haynes and Ann Browne-John, has led to speculation that the organisation will be...
FRESHLY MINTED national sprint champion Kishane Thompson revealed that his world lead time of 9.77 on Friday at the National Stadium was merely a test to see how well his training programme had been going. According to Thompson, his coach, Stephen...
HEAD COACH of Jamaica’s under-17 Reggae Boyz, Altimont ‘Freddy’ Butler, has revealed that a recent incident in Florida, Port St Lucie, could have turned sour if he didn’t act quickly to properly identify himself. The former national striker, while...
WELL-TRAVELLED COACH Davion Ferguson believes his vision and that of Jamaica’s most successful club, Portmore United, are in alignment. Ferguson, who will be calling the shots from the sidelines in the upcoming Jamaica Premier League (JPL) season,...
MINISTER OF Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has confirmed that the new lights for the National Stadium have arrived on the island. The issue of lighting at the stadium has been a huge discussion point and was amplified after...
IN THEIR heyday, the rivalry between Jamaica’s Asafa Powell and America’s Justin Gatlin served up mouth-watering encounters and jaw-dropping times. “From 2003 to around 2007, there was only one individual I had to worry about, and that was Asafa...
IN THE absence of regular Reggae Boyz captain, Andre Blake, Damion Lowe was given the armband against the Dominican Republic in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday inside the National Stadium, a responsibility the hard-tackling defender is only too...
JAMAICAN INTERNATIONAL Morgan Green is enjoying life in Mexico’s top-flight women’s basketball league for the red-hot Fuerza Regia. The Carlos Alonso-coached team are the current league leaders, boasting a record of seven victories and one defeat...
AHEAD OF the highly anticipated summer Olympics, set to be hosted in Paris, France from July 26 to August 11, Laure Beccuau, Paris’s chief prosecutor, is urging caution to the expected 16 million tourists to venture to the country to witness the...
JAMAICA WILL have no boxing representative at the upcoming Paris Olympics, after hopes went up in flames following defeats to Sanji Williams and Tevoy Barrett at the final global qualifier in Bangkok, Thailand last week. Speaking with The Sunday...
AN UNBEATEN 71 from St Elizabeth Technical High School’s (STETHS) Odane Binns propelled his team to an eight-wicket victory over a game Tacky High School in the ISSA/TVJ T20 final at the Sir P Oval yesterday. Tacky, who racked up 159 for nine from...
THE NATIONAL Stadium in Kingston is set to undergo a strenuous few months with a series of football and track and field events following closely behind each other. Still, general manager of Independence Park Ltd, Major Desmon Brown, believes the...
United States of America’s Alexis Holmes was the top athlete in the women’s 400 metres at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational inside the National Stadium tonight. Holmes stopped the clock at 50.31 seconds, while teammates Brittany Brown and Naasha...
Reigning World Championship bronze medallist Rushell Clayton scorched a world-leading 53.72 seconds clocking en route to winning the women’s 400 metres hurdles at the Jamaica Athletics Invitation at the National Stadium tonight. America’s Anna...
NATIONAL RECORD holder in the 800 metres, Navasky Anderson, is locked in to preparations for what would be his first Olympic Games in a few months’ time. While he’s going through his paces on the training field, Anderson shared that his lifelong...
HIGHLY RESPECTED and world-renowned track and field analyst, columnist, and reporter Hubert Lawrence was laid to rest yesterday at Meadowrest Memorial Gardens, following a church service at the Cathedral of St Jago de la Vega in Spanish Town, St...
REGGAE GIRLZ head coach Xavier Gilbert is expecting to see many of the players who held Brazil to a 1-1 draw at the World Cup last year back in the squad for the teams’ rematches on June 1 and 4 in Salvador. “We are very close to having them back,...
WEST INDIES Players Association (WIPA) president, Wavell Hinds, while happy with the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision to reduce Jamaica and West Indies’ opener John Campbell four-year ban to 22 months, he was still aggrieved at the...
EXCELSIOR HIGH School are a win away from grabbing a famous schoolboy cricket treble and the achievement isn’t far from their thoughts. Riding high on their massive 420-run victory against St Jago in the final of the ISSA First Global Bank Grace...
THE STATE of Jamaica’s cricket will take centre stage on Thursday, April 25 as 99 delegates will head to the polls to choose between incumbent president Wilford ‘Billy’ Heaven and Dr Donovan Bennett as the man to lead the Jamaica Cricket...
WIDELY REGARDED as the greatest batsman of all time, Brian Lara on Friday celebrated 20 years since his world record innings of 400 not out against England in the fourth Test at the Antigua Recreational Ground. Lara’s innings was done in a brisk...
