Published:Saturday | February 11, 2017 | 8:36 PMPaul Clarke
WESTERN BUREAU:Double Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson says she is gearing up for the Birmingham Grand Prix later this month and that she is feeling good about her prospects on the track this season after helping MVP Track Club to defend their...
Published:Wednesday | February 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Senator Ruel Reid, the minister of education, youth and information, says that the students at Green Pond High School in St James should seek to honour the memory of their slain schoolmate, Shineka Gray, by continuing the school's...
Published:Sunday | February 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Robert Gray, the father of murdered Green Pond High School teen Shineka Gray, has described a flurry of rumours about the circumstances surrounding his daughter's brutal death as counterproductive and hurtful."I don't know what...
Published:Tuesday | January 31, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Jamaican Olympian Marvin Anderson has said that while he understands the reason why schools choose to scout and buy athletes for their respective squads, he would rather see the schools depending on the support of the community to augment...
Published:Thursday | January 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Standout defender Alburn Facey has given up on any realistic hopes of donning the Reggae Boyz jersey and has cited the scarcity of true earning potential for young footballers, as one reason he thinks many of his peers will turn their...
Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 6:11 PMPaul Clarke
Craig Foster has scored three goals and provided one assist in four Red Stripe Premier League matches for Reno FC since his return in January.This has been a key factor in pushing the Westmoreland-based club to a three-game unbeaten run, which leave...
Published:Wednesday | January 18, 2017 | 7:44 PMPaul Clarke
There is no three ways about it, Westmoreland-based Three Miles River FC is aiming to become the dominant club in the west, and that means that they must first unseat the overwhelming parish standard-bearers Reno FC and the undoubted best club in...
Published:Saturday | January 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Englishman Paul Eales struggled on yesterday's final day, but held on to save par in dramatic fashion to eke out a one-stroke victory in the 2016 Jamaica Open Golf championship at the Half Moon Golf Course in Montego Bay.Eales won the...
Published:Thursday | January 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Englishman Paul Eales holds the early lead at the 2017 Jamaica Open Golf Championship, taming the field at the picturesque Half Moon Course with a superb 4 under-par 68 to sit atop the leaderboard after day one in Montego Bay.His...
Published:Monday | January 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
In 2011, when Orville Powell acquired ownership of Seba United and subsequently rebranded the former two-time league winners, renaming the club Montego Bay United Football Club (MBU), it started what is now an avalanche of success.They have gone on...
Published:Sunday | January 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Schoolboy Jourdaine Fletcher took his goalscoring form into the Red Stripe Premier League, scoring on debut for champions Montego Bay United (MBU) in their 2-1 win over struggling Waterhouse FC yesterday at Wes Pow Park.Fletcher's...
Published:Tuesday | January 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau: The new year brings with it a worsening cry from Everton Tomlinson, the Westmoreland Football Association president, who is once again lamenting the lack of effort to assist his administration in its bid to develop football...
Published:Wednesday | December 28, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Like last year, it took another all-star ensemble to close the 2016 GT Taylor Christmas Extravaganza show, but the performance of the night belonged to reggae singer Sanchez, who highlighted the event with a string of memorable hits from his vast...
Published:Sunday | December 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Jamaican sprint star Yohan Blake says he feels the coming year will bring for him, a return to special performances on the track for him. Blake, who made a decent return to top level sprinting after a tough few years with injuries, produced...
Published:Sunday | December 18, 2016 | 4:05 PMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Faulkland SC secured their first-ever victory in the Western Confederation Super League, outclassing Wadadah FC 4-1 in an early game of a double-header at Jarrett Park on Saturday.Goals were at a premium during first-half action with...
Published:Sunday | December 18, 2016 | 7:27 PMPaul Clarke
Western BureauDefender John Barrett scored his first goal of the season as defending champions Montego Bay United (MBU) widened the gap at the top of the Red Stripe Premier League with a 1-0 victory over University of the West Indies (UWI) yesterday...
Published:Friday | December 16, 2016 | 5:15 PMPaul Clarke
Sandals South Coast and Petersfield FC square off this afternoon in an early Westmoreland derby in the second-round match of the Charley's JB Rum Western Confederation Super League at Petersfield Community Centre at 3 p.m., as both teams seek to...
Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:It would cost the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), the governing body for high-school sports in Jamaica, approximately $100 million to make competitions like the daCosta Cup and Manning Cup more desirable, said...
Published:Monday | December 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Rusea's High School will be searching for a new football coach for next season as Aaron Lawrence has confirmed his decision to call it quits, after guiding the many-time daCosta Cup winners to a third straight quarter-final finish in...
Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Jamaica College (JC) head coach Miguel Coley and his team put the lid on what he called a fantastic season after Saturday's Olivier Shield capture in Montego Bay, in a game that both himself and his Cornwall College counterpart Dr...
Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 6:38 PMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Herbert Morrison retained both their Under-19 and Under -16 ISSA Western Conference Basketball tiles with commanding wins over Cornwall College in championship deciding Game 2 on the weekend for a third-straight hold of the respective...
Published:Friday | December 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
WESTERN BUREAU:Manning Cup winners Jamaica College (JC) will this afternoon put the Olivier Shield title they have won for the last three successive seasons on the line against daCosta Cup champions Cornwall College in a 6:00 pm clash at the Montego...
Published:Friday | December 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Reggae Boyz head coach Theodore 'Tappa' Whitmore heads a star-studded field of former national players down to take part in the Barita-sponsored Drax Hall Masters Invitational Football Festival on Sunday, December 18.Whitmore will be...
Published:Thursday | December 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Western Bureau:Councillor Derrick Sangster, who was elected by his peers to serve as mayor of Black River and chairman of the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, says his first order of business will be to lobby central government for funds to...
Published:Sunday | December 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
WESTERN BUREAU:The Reggae Marathon was designed to stimulate sports tourism, says conceptualiser and chief organiser Alfred 'Frano' Francis. So when Japan's Kota Taniguchi crossed the line first to win the 16th staging in Negril, it confirmed what...
