IN THE fight against doping in sport, the issue is never about winning the battle. Witold Banka, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief, is under no illusions regarding the enormity of their expensive undertaking to keep sport clean from drug-...
WITOLD BANKA, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has branded as “unfortunate” the manner in which Jamaica’s women’s 4x100 metres team was denied the junior world record at last year’s Carifta Games, especially as the violation did...
WESTERN BUREAU: INTENT ON returning Jamaica’s senior men’s football team to the FIFA World Cup, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) aims to pull up the blueprint used by the late Captain Horace Burrell to have the Reggae Boyz qualify for the 1998...
WESTERN BUREAU: FAILURE TO qualify for FIFA’s 2026 senior men’s World Cup, especially as it will be hosted in the region, would misrepresent the quality of Jamaica’s strength in regional, and by extension, world football. Consequently, Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE REGGAE Girlz are not in the business of just ‘showing up’. That’s the word from Lorne Donaldson, head coach of the senior Jamaica national women’s football team, as he looked ahead to their participation at the Women’s World Cup...
PRIOR TO kick-off, the stage was set with a fly-over by then national airline, Air Jamaica. The message was clear. There’d be no stopping Jamaica. Later, in unison, thousands of fans decked in gold, with a spatter of black and green, unleashed...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHEN IT comes to Jamaica’s football, the Reggae Girlz are the ones with their hands on the steering. But while they’ve remained the most successful national football team for some time, head coach Lorne Donaldson said that they are...
JAMAICA’S REGGAE Girlz are being likened to a hard nut, a tough unit to crack following their hard fought 1-0 win over Paraguay in their international friendly women’s football match at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, St James, on Thursday night....
WESTERN BUREAU: THE JAMAICA Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) will engage in a massive drive to ramp up employment by thousands across the country with looming fear that the workforce deficit could undermine visitor experience during the winter...
BUOYED BY the historic sporting representation in Birmingham, England, Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) president, Christopher Samuda, is promising a blast from the nation’s competitors at the 22nd edition of the Commonwealth Games. “You’re part...
WESTERN BUREAU: AS AN athlete, Omar Bryan contributed to the rich sporting legacy at all-boy Munro College while leading the charge at Boys’ Champs, and for Jamaica. Now back at Munro, Bryan is looking to restore that lustre as interim head coach...
WESTERN BUREAU: MUNRO COLLEGE plans to build a strong foundation for the upcoming years, with a number of young field event competitors leading the charge in their first appearance at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championship (...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE HENZELLS from south St Elizabeth have, more than once, played a role in Jamaica’s Independence celebrations, and this year at 60 will be no different, with Justine putting together an arts showcase that fits right into the...
Western Bureau: TRAGIC MOTOR vehicle accidents accounted for the loss of four lives on roadways in the western thoroughfare of Trelawny, St James and the Manchester-St Elizabeth border yesterday, leaving families in grief and prompting Assistant...
WESTERN BUREAU: CITING THURSDAY’S big firearm bust and lottery-scamming arrest, plus the capture of several wanted men in recent days across western Jamaica, Senior Superintendent Vernon Ellis, head of the St James Police Division, said the...
Western Bureau: THE PRECARIOUS state of the World Cup qualifying campaign and the consequent December 21 sacking of national senior men’s football team head coach, Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore, mirrored the state of Jamaica’s football in 2021, as it...
