JAMAICA’S PAIR of Isabelle David and Alana Walker will aim at securing medals for the country when they contest the women’s all-round final later today at the 2024 Pan American Gymnastics Championships being held in San Marta, Colombia. David...
JAMAICAN TENNIS player Jeremy Miller believes a lack of experience was the reason behind his failure to progress beyond the qualifying round of the ongoing International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Tennis M15000 tournament, being hosted on local...
REGGAE Boy and West Ham striker Michail Antonio has opened up about his struggles with mental illness. While he is known for his toughness on the field of play, off the field, Antonio’s passion for the game was being tested, and while speaking on a...
Yohan Blake, the 2011 World 100 metres champion, is adamant that his best days are not long gone and there’s still gas left in the tank. Speaking on his YouTube platform, ‘Yohan Blake TV’, he revealed that a change in the moniker ‘beast’ to ‘...
THE seventh staging of the Jamaica Inn Backgammon tournament promises to be very entertaining and will be staged from June 14-16 in Ocho Rios, St Ann. Speaking at yesterday’s launch at the Spanish Court Hotel, Knolly Moses, director of the...
LOCAL umpire Chris Taylor is over the moon following his appointment by cricket’s governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), to officiate during the upcoming warm-up matches ahead of the men’s T20 World Cup. Taylor shared that while...
CAMPION COLLEGE are the 2024 ISSA Urban Area Under-16 champions. Resuming day two of their contest against St George’s College at Kensington Oval with the eventual runners up on 103-7, in chase of 378 for victory, the game lasted just 4.1 overs. St...
REAPPOINTED HEAD coach of the Reggae Girlz, Hubert Busby, says he’s excited to be back and is eager to see what lies ahead for the national team. “I’m excited to be back as this is an exciting group of players. This is also an exciting time in...
ACTION in the 2024 International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Tennis M15000 got under way yesterday at the Eric Bell National Tennis Centre as a host of players took aim at securing spots in the first round of the tournament. Among the players...
AFTER a six-year absence due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and lack of sponsorship, the 2024 Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Under-17 competition kicks off today with matches in Zones B and D. Among the title...
Founder of Phoenix Academy Craig Butler is pushing for local football academies to be included in the Malta-sponsored Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) Under-17 development programme. The programme was launched on Wednesday, and teams...
ONE OF Jamaica’s brightest under-17 talents, Marcus McDonald, has been given the opportunity to showcase his skills at the upcoming Basketball Without Borders Americas Camp. The internationally recognised camp, jointly organised by the National...
THE PROFESSIONAL Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL), in partnership with Malta, yesterday launched its Under-17 development programme at the UWI-JFF Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence. The pilot programme, which will see four teams – Arnett...
JAMAICA’S Under-18 Reggae Boyz recently returned to the island following their participation at the UEFA Friendship Tournament in Turkey. The young Reggae Boyz played in four games and suffered defeats to Saudi Arabia (2-1) Turkey (10-1 ) and Mali...
WITH 85 DAYS left before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics, concerns are mounting due to the rise in dengue cases in the country. With well over 1,500 reported cases since the start of the year, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA...
JAMAICA’S SENIOR men’s national basketball coach, Rick Turner, is blaming inexperience for missing the opportunity to have the country’s 3x3 team represented at the Paris Olympics later this year. The team just failed to take advantage of any of...
LAST SATURDAY the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC), the regulators of local horse racing, flexed their muscles at Caymanas Park by enforcing rule 44 which stipulates that once a post time is made official a race can be abandoned by the race stewards...
PRESIDENT of the Intercollegiate Sports Association (Intercol), Paul Beckford, has described the recent announcement from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to allow immediate eligibility for athletes who transfer between...
EXCELSIOR High School lifted their third title of the 2024 ISSA schoolboy cricket season yesterday, defeating rural area champions Manchester by 185 runs in the ISSA All-Island Spaulding Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Oval. The Mountain View Avenue...
EXCELSIOR HIGH tightened their grip on local schoolgirls’ football as they drubbed Holmwood Technical 9-1 in the final of the ISSA/TIP Friendly Society Schoolgirls competition at the Stadium East field yesterday. The victory gave Excelsior an...
EXCELSIOR WERE crowned urban area T20 champions yesterday after a dominant 181-run victory over Kingston College (KC) at the Melbourne Oval. Excelsior racked up a mammoth 244/5 from their 20 overs before bowling out a shell-shocked KC for just 63...
The national Under-18 team will depart the island today to compete in the 2024 UEFA Friendship Tournament to be hosted in Turkey. The team, which is drawn in Group A alongside the trio of Mali, Saudi Arabia and hosts Turkey, will kick off their...
EXCELSIOR OPENER David Dewar produced a blistering 60 not out from 18 deliveries to propel his team to a 10-wicket victory over St George’s College in the semi-final of the ISSA/GK Insurance Urban T20 tournament at Emmett Park yesterday, setting up...
