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Published:Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AFTER A somewhat pedestrian start to the 2023-24 Jamaica Premier League (JPL) season, former champions Cavalier are enjoying life atop the standings. Rudolph Speid, head coach of the team, said while his offensive line is a force to be reckoned...

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2024 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

EVEN AS Jamaica’s number-one ranked tennis player, Blaise Bicknell, accepted responsibility for the country’s 3-2 defeat to Barbados in Group II Davis Cup action at the weekend, the team’s captain Noel Rutherford thinks there was another fly in the...

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2024 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s five-member team comprised of Blaise Bicknell, Rowland ‘Randy’ Phillips, Jeremy Miller, Daniel Azar and David Goldsmith will go into action today against Barbados in Davis Cup Group II with the tie set to serve off at 11 a.m. at the Eric...

Published:Friday | February 2, 2024 | 2:00 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

The Jamaican Davis Cup team are taking no chances in their Davis Cup Group II encounter, pitting their top two players, Blaise Bicknell and Rowland 'Randy' Phillips against the might of Barbados when the two serve off against each other at the Eric...

Published:Friday | February 2, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING last year’s resounding success of the inaugural staging of the RESI Cricket Legends, former West Indies fast bowler Daren Powell, founder of the event, believes Year Two will be bigger. The 2024 staging will be held on February 18 at the...

Published:Thursday | February 1, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

EUROPEAN UNION Ambassador to Jamaica Marianne Van Steen is excited about the second staging of the European Union-Jamaica 5k and 10k run/walk. Van Steen is anticipating that the event, scheduled for downtown Kingston on March 10, will, at the very...

Published:Tuesday | January 30, 2024 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

AHEAD of this weekend’s (February 3-4) Davis Cup clash between Jamaica and Caribbean rivals Barbados at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre, president of the Jamaica Tennis Association, John Azar, told The Gleaner at the weekend that the finishing touches...

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2024 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING Calabar High’s Under-16 team’s thrilling 55-46 victory over the more fancied St George’s College in Thursday’s deciding game three of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) basketball tournament, Ludlow Barker, assistant...

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Having already netted 10 goals from 15 games in the 2023-24 Jamaica Premier League (JPL) season Waterhouse FC’s striker Javane Bryan is grateful after being selected a member of a local 22-man training camp that completed a recent two-day...

Published:Thursday | January 25, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE FIVE-MEMBER team of Blaise Bicknell, Rowland Phillips, Daniel Azar, Jeremy Miller, and David Goldsmith will have the weight of expectations levied on their shoulders as they prepare for a must-win Davis Cup battle against Caribbean counterparts...

Published:Tuesday | January 23, 2024 | 12:13 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

DESPITE creating numerous goalscoring opportunities, both Cavalier and the league’s highest scoring team Tivoli Gardens failed to convert any of their chances during yesterday’s Jamaica Premier League encounter at the Anthony Spaulding Sports...

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:14 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

HEADING INTO his 11th Major League Soccer (MLS) season on February 21, Reggae Boyz captain and starting goalkeeper for the Philadelphia Union, Andre Blake, believes that with each passing season, his team is becoming more and more of a threat in...

Published:Tuesday | January 16, 2024 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

JAMAICAN international umpire Patrick Gustard is one of two Caribbean officials set to officiate in the upcoming men’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup in South Africa. The Under-19 World Cup bowls off on January 19. Gustard shared that it felt great...

Published:Monday | January 15, 2024 | 12:05 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

A 10-MEMBER team representing the PHASE 1 Basketball Academy will depart Jamaica on January 25 for the January Jump Off basketball tournament at the David Psnak Jewish Community Center in Davie, Florida. The tournament, being used by the Jamaicans...

Published:Saturday | January 13, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Reigning Barclay’s Women’s Super League (WSL) Player of the Month for December, Reggae Girl Khadija Shaw, has heaped praises on sprint legend Usain Bolt for the support he has given since her move to Manchester City FC in England. In a recent...

Published:Thursday | January 11, 2024 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE RUDOLPH Speid-coached Cavalier surged into third place in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) following a 2-1 victory, their fifth on the trot, against Humble Lion at the Stadium East field yesterday. Cavalier got goals in the seventh minute...

Published:Tuesday | January 9, 2024 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FORMER West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman Jeffrey Dujon believes the squad selected to participate in an upcoming two-Test series against world number one ranked Australia is similar to sending lambs to the slaughter. The Kraigg Brathwaite-captained...

Published:Saturday | January 6, 2024 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

MINISTER of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange said on Thursday that the Government was not at fault for the exit of former local Caribbean Premier League franchise Jamaica Tallawahs. Minister Grange stated that the Government...

Published:Thursday | December 14, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

CLARENDON COLLEGE ended their 2023 Schoolboy football season in commanding fashion, retaining their Olivier Shield title with the 4-0 defeat of Manning Cup winners Mona High School at the National Stadium last night. The Chapelton-based institution got goals through player-...

Published:Thursday | December 14, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

NATIONAL BASKETBALL League (NBL) champions will be crowned tonight with the pair of Upper Room Eagles and Urban Knights locking horns in the series deciding Game Three at the National Stadium Courts with tip-off set for 7:00 p.m. In Game One, Urban...

Published:Thursday | December 14, 2023 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT OF Gymnastics Jamaica, Nicole Grant-Brown, is hailing the exploits of local gymnasts Mariah Gordon following her gold-medal-winning performance at the recently concluded Pan American Hopes Artistic Gymnastics Tournament held on local soil...

Published:Tuesday | December 12, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

After scoring a record breaking 69 goals during the 2023 ISSA/Burger King under-16 football season, Jamaica College (JC) were crowned champions yesterday following a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Wolmer’s Boys in the final at the Stadium East field...

Published:Saturday | December 9, 2023 | 12:13 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Mona High lifted their first ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup title last night after they edged the Ferry-based Hydel High 1-0 inside the National Stadium. Demarion Harris’ fifth of the season was the all-important goal for the Craig Butler-coached...

Published:Saturday | December 9, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

DEFENDING ISSA/daCosta Cup champions Clarendon College will put their title on the line today when they meet parish rivals Glenmuir High in what is expected to be a hotly contested battle with match time set for 6 p.m. at the National Stadium....

Published:Friday | December 8, 2023 | 3:41 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz will open their 2024 Copa America challenge against Concacaf opposition when the competition begins, June 20. The Jamaicans will also have for company in Group B, Ecuador and Venezuela in the competition which ends July 14....

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