The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) says an increase in salaries and wages is the reason for more than two thirds of its costs associated with administrative expenses. This, it said in a press release on Wednesday, is because of changes to its...
Jamaica Boxing Board president Stephen Jones says that plans are being made for boxing in September. Jones, who was previously sceptical about when to make fighters active again, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, said that the change of thinking is...
Imagine giving everything you have to your craft throughout your high school track and field career and landing an athletic scholarship for your university. Then comes the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing social distancing in every aspect of society,...
Molynes United President Herman Cruickshank has called for a subsidy by organisers of the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) to aid less financially endowed teams when the new season starts. Molynes were promoted to top-flight football in the 2019-20...
Jamaica Tallawahs Chief Executive Officer Jeff Miller says that the team was not looking to find a marquee player to replace former captain Chris Gayle as he is “irreplaceable”. However, the idea behind the players drafted was to build a solid...
Cricket West Indies President Ricky Skerritt has described the late Windies legend Sir Everton Weekes as one of the founders of the region’s cricket. Sir Everton, 95 years old, passed away after a period of illness at his home in Christ Church,...
Former Windies fast bowler, now pundit, Michael Holding, has commented on whether cricketers should use their platform to speak up on racial injustice. With recent global protests led by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement after the death of...
Windies fast-bowling legend Michael Holding says it was the correct decision for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to pull a racially controversial episode of ‘Fawlty Towers’ from its streaming service. The BBC pulled the episode ‘The...
Salwa Eid Naser’s legal representatives, Dr Emir Crowne and Matthew Gayle, have denied charges of a whereabouts violation brought against her by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU). The Nigeria-born Bahraini quarter-miler retained the services of...
It’s a beautiful, warm, sunny Sunday afternoon in July, and the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) is set for a resumption after roughly four months suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The football fraternity, consisting of players, coaches,...
Janathan ‘Mufasa’ Hanson had big plans geared at him being an Olympian this summer. However, they were delayed for a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The middleweight amateur boxer was preparing for qualifiers before the start of the pandemic...
It has been roughly a month since most major sporting events around the world have been either suspended, postponed, or cancelled because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In that time, fans, athletes, and sports administrators alike...
Jamaica Athletics Adminstrative Association (JAAA) secretary general Garth Gayle has confirmed that correspondence has taken place with the region’s governing body, North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC), urging...
The cancellation of this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) because of COVID-19 has caused concerns about the future of many of the nation’s top student-athletes and their technical development. But one...
Jamaica Athletics Adminis-trative Association (JAAA) president Dr Warren Blake says that Olympic Games officials will be forced to rethink their stance on hosting the event this summer as global infection numbers for the novel coronavirus, which...
Jamaica’s senior men’s team head coach Romeo Monteith is upbeat after the Reggae Warriors were placed in Group C of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup in a draw made yesterday. The Reggae Warriors have been placed with 2013 World Champions New Zealand...
HAVANA, Cuba: Jamaica Cycling Federation (JCF) representative Carlton Simmonds says he is fine with Vincentian Trevor Bailey returning as president of the Caribbean Cycling Confederation (CCC) for another four-year term. Bailey defeated challenger...
HAVANA, Cuba: National road cycling champion Russell Small says he is ‘soldiering through’ less-than- satisfactory conditions as he gets ready for the Caribbean Cycling Confederation’s (CCC) Road Cycling Championships here today. Jamaica’s eight-...
Havana, Cuba: National Cyclist Russell Small says that a video that went viral on the Internet earlier this week showing a woman riding home from work could help the profile of the sport locally. Shellysha McCarthy was videoed by a motorist at a...
JamaicaN junior tennis player John Chin joined forces with Ty Switzer (USA) recently to win the doubles title at the GTP Cup in Noord, Aruba. They defeated the pair of Leon Berg of Germany and Quintan Van Wijk of Curaçao, 6-4, 6-0. Prior to the...
Jamaica Tallawahs Chief Executive Officer Jeff Miller says that despite low attendance for the franchise’s home games in the Caribbean Premier League at Sabina Park this season, the team has no intention of leaving the island. However, it is...
The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) is already considering the nation’s participation in break dancing should it be added to the list of sporting disciplines for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. Break dancing, ‘breaking’, or ‘b-boying/b-...
Dr Emir Crowne says the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel’s (IADP) decision to reprimand his client, Briana Williams, with no period of ineligibility was a “just and well-considered one”. Williams faced the panel on Monday and Tuesday to...
Jamaica’s senior men’s football team moved back into the top 50 international teams in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking released yesterday. The Reggae Boyz’s 6-0 and 4-0 wins over Antigua and Barbuda, and Guyana, respectively, in the...
Former FIFA referee Karl Tyrell has defended his decision to call off an ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup game at the time he did because of a thunderstorm on Monday. Tyrell, the referee for the Group E game between Wolmers’ Boys and Jamaica College (JC)...
