THE JAMAICA Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) says it will be ratcheting up testing at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships, which will be held at the National Stadium from Tuesday. JADCO had scaled down the testing of the...
PRESIDENT OF the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Keith Wellington says tickets for this year’s highly anticipated GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships have been going extremely well. The five-day championships, from April 5...
WITH NO World Championship titles yet under her belt, Jamaica’s sprint sensation Elaine Thompson Herah has been working assiduously this season with the chance of a gold medal in Eugene, Oregon, beckoning. Thompson Herah, the 2020 double Olympic...
Vere Technical’s Kaylia Kelly sped to a personal best time to emerge the overall winner of the girls’ Class One 200 metres at the John Wolmer Speedfest at the National Stadium yesterday. Kelly, who has been in impressive form this season, clocked...
WITH THE Reggae Boyz now out of contention for a spot at this year’s FIFA World Cup (WC) in Qatar, midfielder Ravel Morrison remains committed to the national team with the prospect of winning other football tournaments. Morrison, who plies his...
OLYMPIC 200-METRE finalist Rasheed Dywer turned in an impressive performance to win the men’s 100m at the G.C. Foster Classics in St Catherine yesterday. Dwyer, who finished seventh in last year’s 200-metre Olympic final in Tokyo, Japan, clocked a...
NETBALL JAMAICA (NJ) has officially launched its road to South Africa Netball World Cup (NWC) fundraising campaign as they seek more than $50 million to assist the Sunshine Girls in their preparation for the championships. Tricia Robinson,...
HERBERT MORRISON’S DeAndre Daley and Edwin Allen’s Tia Clayton crowned themselves in glory inside the National Stadium last evening after they captured the boys’ and girls’ under-20 100-metre titles, respectively, at the JAAA Carifta Trials. Daley...
THE GOVERNMENT has granted permission to the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) for 15,000 spectators to attend this year’s staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. The highly...
KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) coach Leaford Grant says his team’s victory at this year’s Corporate Area Championships is an excellent measuring stick for them going into next month’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. KC, who are...
AFTER MORE than a two-year absence, the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) netball competition is scheduled to resume next Tuesday with a full slate of matches in the urban- and rural-area senior division competitions across the...
HAVING SHATTERED the girls’ Class One 4x100m record at yesterday’s 45th staging of the Gibson McCook Relays, Edwin Allen’s superstar quartet has now set their sights on running sub-43 seconds at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
PRESIDENT OF the United Racehorse Trainers Association of Jamaica (URTAJ), Patrick Smellie, said his organisation will be engaging the Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) to discuss the still pending matter of a purse increase...
DENZIL WILKS, general manager of the Sports Development Foundation (SDF), says he is still in the dark as to when the refurbishing work on the synthetic track at the Montego Bay Sports Complex in St James will begin. The track, which is the only...
HYDEL HIGH School’s head coach Corey Bennett says his charge, Brianna Lyston, is in excellent shape to lower her personal best time in the 200m this season. Bennett made the comment after Lyston, a former St Jago athlete, destroyed a competitive...
GENERAL SECRETARY of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Dalton Wint says construction work on the installation of a brand new lighting system at the UWI-JFF Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence at UWI, Mona Campus is scheduled for...
HAVING WATCHED the Reggae Boyz’s slim chances of qualifying for this year’s FIFA World Cup go up in smoke last Wednesday night, president of the Jamaica Football Federation(JFF) Michael Ricketts has pointed to bad luck and a lack of concentration...
MARCH 19 is the date that Netball Jamaica (NJ) has set aside for the resumption of the Divisional League local competitions. Simone Forbes, first vice-president of NJ, said her organisation had been working assiduously with the Government and...
THE ISSA/DIGICEL Manning Cup trophy has returned to North Street after Kingston Kingston (KC) defeated champions Jamaica College (JC) 5-4 on penalties in the final at the St Stadium East field yesterday. This, after both schools played out an...
It will be the first all-rural area ISSA Champions Cup final in the history of the competition after Clarendon College (CC) and Dinthill Technical High School recorded different, but not quite contrasting, victories in the semi-finals of the...
Jamaica Sunshine Girls turned in a gusty performance to defeat the men’s national team 51-45 in their one-off friendly match at the National Indoor Sports Centre last night. The Sunshine Girls started the game very shakily as they were outmuscled...
General secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Dalton Wint, says the Reggae Boyz’s recent historic 2-0 victory over hosts Honduras in their Concacaf World Cup Qualifier has brought back a lot of confidence in the national side ahead of...
International netball returns to Jamaica today, after more than three years, when the Sunshine Girls take on Caribbean rivals Trinidad and Tobago in the opening match of their three-Test Sunshine series at the National Indoor Sports Centre. The...
President of Netball Jamaica (NJ), Tricia Robinson, says her association will beef up security at the Sunshine Girls’ Netball House as they prepare to go into camp ahead of their Tri-nation Series against South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago next...
Experienced Jamaican defender Adrian Mariappa believes that the Reggae Boyz’s coaching staff will have a very difficult task when selecting the squad for next month’s three Concacaf 2022 World Cup qualifying matches. Mariappa’s comments came...
