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Published:Friday | December 1, 2023 | 12:14 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Jamaica College (JC) and St Andrew Technical (STATHS) will renew their rivalry as both booked their spots in the final of the 2023 ISSA/Digicel Walker Cup competition following comfortable semi-final wins yesterday at the Stadium East field. In...

Published:Friday | December 1, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

A six-member youth team inclusive of Mariah Gordon, Zuri Matandara-Clarke, Elyssa Alexander, Jesanique Scott, Sukhuri-Shay Smith and Emelia Sharpe are locked in preparation mode under the watching eyes of coaches Nadeen White and Tristan Hall, as...

Published:Thursday | November 30, 2023 | 12:12 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE NOMINEES for the 2023 RJRGLEANER Communications Group National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards will be dominated by athletes from track and field. The nominees were announced on Wednesday by Mike Fennell, chairman of the Selection...

Published:Tuesday | November 28, 2023 | 12:12 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE Andrew Price-coached Humble Lion registered their third victory in six games as they defeated Waterhouse last night at the Stadium East field in Jamaica Premier League (JPL) action, courtesy of a 13th-minute strike from Javain Thompson. Despite...

Published:Tuesday | November 28, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

CRICKET’S governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), has announced that they will experiment with the use of a stop clock in men’s limited overs matches in a bid to regulate the time taken between overs. A penalty of five runs will...

Published:Tuesday | November 28, 2023 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

HAVING booked spots in the final of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup and ISSA/Digicel daCosta Cup competitions, respectively, both Hydel High and Clarendon College will cross swords in the semi-finals of the ISSA Champions Cup competition today, with...

Published:Saturday | November 25, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE 2023 National Basketball League (NBL) finals will be contested by the pair of Upper Room Eagles and Urban Knights as both teams registered series sweeps, 2-0, over their opponents on Thursday night at the National Stadium court. The Upper...

Published:Saturday | November 25, 2023 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Squash Association, Karen Anderson, has added vice president of Caribbean for the Pan American Squash Board to her resumé following the recent elections in Santiago, Chile. Speaking after her appointment, Anderson said...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THREE-TIME national 110-metre hurdles champion Ronald Levy is now facing the possibility of being slapped with a four-year ban from track and field. Radio Jamaica Sports reported yesterday that Levy’s ‘B’ sample confirmed the two banned...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

The Craig Butler-coached Mona High bowed out of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup competition at the semi-final stage last year, but the experienced coach is planning to go much further this season and he has revealed that the pre-game talks are...

Published:Thursday | November 23, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

WOLMER’S BOYS’ School, Jamaica College and Excelsior booked spots in the semi-finals of the ISSA Walker Cup competition. Wolmer’s, who await the winner of the final quarter-final between Haile Selassie and St Andrew Technical High School, had to...

Published:Thursday | November 23, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE PAIR of Urban Knights and Upper Room Eagles could book their spot in the 2023 National Basketball League (NBL) final as they both take 1-0 leads into tonight’s game two of their best-of-three series against Portmore Flames and St George’s...

Published:Tuesday | November 21, 2023 | 12:07 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

LAST season’s beaten ISSA Champions Cup finalists, Kingston College (KC), will take aim at capturing their second hold on the trophy when they face Dinthill Technical High School in the quarter-finals of the competition at the National Stadium...

Published:Saturday | November 18, 2023 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

New champions will be crowned in the 2023 ISSA Champions Cup competition and Linstead-based Dinthill Technical are hopeful that their name will be etched on the trophy and in the process becoming the third daCosta Cup team, after Cornwall College...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 12:12 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

HEADING into tonight’s crucial first leg of the 2023 Concacaf Nation’s League League A quarterfinal against Canada at the National Stadium, Heimir Hallgrimsson, head coach of Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz, revealed yesterday that there is some doubt...

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

A PLUCKY Jonathan Grant, Haile Selassie, Excelsior, and Wolmer’s Boys’ are through to the quarterfinals of the ISSA/Digicel Walker Cup competition with differing levels of ease yesterday. Yesterday’s results mean that Haile Selassie will play St...

Published:Tuesday | November 14, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING the Jamaica Scorpions’ disappointing performance in the 2023 regional Super50 tournament which saw them finishing eighth in the eight-team tournament, Courtney Francis, chief executive officer of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA),...

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

FOR the second year running, former minnows Mona High will feature in the semifinals of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup competition following their 2-0 victory over St Andrew Technical (STATHS) inside a noisy Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex...

Published:Friday | November 10, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE Craig Butler-coached Mona High team will have all to play for this afternoon when they lock horns with the Phillip Williams-coached St Andrew Technical (STATHS) in a crucial quarter-final fixture in the 2023 ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup at the...

Published:Friday | November 10, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Last season’s beaten Jamaica Premier League (JPL) finalists Cavalier got their first victory of the 2023/24 football season following a commanding 3-1 victory over Harbour View at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday, courtesy of strikes...

Published:Thursday | November 9, 2023 | 12:12 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING A 3-0 defeat in their first assignment in the Wray and Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League, the Rudolph Speid-coached Cavalier will lock horns with Harbour View in a rescheduled fixture later today at the Anthony Spaulding Sports...

Published:Thursday | November 9, 2023 | 12:12 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

HAVING RECENTLY obtained a Master of Science Degree in Sport Business Management from the University of West Indies, Mona, boxer Sakima Mullings is beaming with joy. According to Mullings, the scholastic journey allowed him to have a great sense...

Published:Tuesday | November 7, 2023 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE Linval Dixon-conditioned Vere United scored their first victory of the 2023-24 Wray...

Published:Tuesday | November 7, 2023 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

Chairman of Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL), Solomon Sharpe, has hailed the Government’s move to remove general consumption tax (GCT) on the importation of horses. “The horse-racing industry in Jamaica is a very...

Published:Saturday | November 4, 2023 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

HAVING booked their spot in the final of the 2023 Concacaf Caribbean Cup against Robinhood FC of Suriname, Cavalier’s head coach Rudolph Speid says that he and his team are enjoying life in the competition. Speid said playing in the Concacaf...

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