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Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL High School’s senior netballers went on a rampage during opening second-round action in the ISSA Rural Schoolgirl Netball competition at St Elizabeth Technical High School, destroying Irwin High 109-3 yesterday. The Karline...

Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:10 AM

ALL THREE points and bragging rights will be heading to Old Hope Road as Jamaica College (JC) were rampant in a staggering first-half attacking display which saw them dismissing rivals Kingston College (KC) 3-0 yesterday in an ISSA Manning Cup...

Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:09 AM

THE GOVERNMENT will be giving grants to every member of Jamaica’s team to the recent Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, France. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, made the announcement on Monday...

Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:09 AM

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC): DESPITE BEING thoroughly outplayed by England in the first two T20 Internationals, West Indies’ white-ball head coach Daren Sammy believes the home side has the necessary manpower to pull off a comeback victory in the...

Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

SEVERAL OF the more prominent faces in Jamaica’s track and field community have lent their voices in support of the decision made to host the inaugural Grand Slam Track (GST) series at the National Stadium. During a GST press conference at The...

Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:06 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

HAVING ACCEPTED his first call-up to the Reggae Boyz squad, midfielder Isaac Hayden is looking forward to making his international debut at the National Stadium tomorrow when Jamaica face off against the United States in the Concacaf Nations League...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

A BRACE from Waterhouse striker Andre Fletcher extended his team’s unbeaten run to six games in the Jamaica Premier League as they defeated bottom-of-the-table Molynes United 3-1 at the Anthony Spaulding last night. Waterhouse, who started the...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

AFTER A thrilling second round at the Jamaica Open, Benjamin Martin of Trinidad and Tobago and Mac McClear of the United States emerged tied atop the leaderboard at six under par following day-two action at Tryall in Hanover yesterday. Martin...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:11 AM

ADELAIDE, Australia (CMC): WEST INDIES teammates Hayley Matthews and Deandra Dottin led a historic performance by the Melbourne Renegades in their nine-wicket demolition of Adelaide Strikers during yesterday’s Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL). Player...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE SECOND round of the ISSA Rural Schoolgirl Netball competition, where teams vie for quarter-final spots, will get underway today at five venues across the island. Coach of Glenmuir High School, Ryan Reid, whose senior team was dethroned by...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

THE QUARTER-FINALS of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup resume today with two matches, and Jermaine Thomas, coach of McGrath High School, says his team won’t make too many adjustments going into an encounter away to Glenmuir High School in Clarendon at 3 p...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:10 AM

FANS OF schoolboy football are set for a classic showdown today as Kingston College (KC), the Famed Purples of North Street, are set to re-ignite their rivalry with Jamaica College (JC), the True Blues of Old Hope Road, at Stadium East in the...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:10 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): BARBADOS PRIDE captain Kyle Mayers grabbed two wickets in two balls to lead his side to an exciting eight-run victory via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method over the struggling Windward Islands Volcanoes in their...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:10 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): WEST INDIES T20 skipper Rovman Powell says his specialist batters need to deliver the goods if the home side is to have a realistic chance of winning the series against archrivals England. The West Indies suffered a...

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

SECOND-ROUND MATCHES in the ISSA Urban Schoolgirl Netball competition, scheduled to begin at the Leila Robinson Courts yesterday, did not get off the ground. The matches were postponed because of the persistent showers affecting the country....

Published:Tuesday | November 12, 2024 | 12:08 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

FOUR-TIME OLYMPIC champion and former world record holder Michael Johnson said the decision to host the first stop of the Grand Slam Track (GST) series in Kingston was an easy choice, as Jamaica has proven itself a premier destination over the...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:10 AM

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP): Coco Gauff pays attention to what people say about her online and occasionally takes pleasure in clapping back, so it should not be a surprise that she took to social media to type out a message after wrapping up 2024 by...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:10 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): England skipper Jos Buttler signalled his return from injury with a scintillating half-century, and another inept batting performance by the West Indies saw them slump to a second heavy defeat, this time by seven wickets...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

OCHO RIOS HIGH’s youngest player, Dario James Jr, has his sights set on helping his school win their first ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup and the first title for the parish of St Ann. The 14-year- old James Jr has scored nine goals and provided 14 assists...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:10 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Carlos Brown led with the bat, and Jeavor Royal ran through the Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners’ top order as the Jamaica Scorpions leapfrogged into third position in the Regional Super50 competition with a...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:09 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

American Mac McClear is in front after day one of the 56th staging of the Jamaica Open Golf Championship following his five-under-par score of 67 at the Tryall Golf Course in Hanover yesterday. The Illinois-native, who turned pro this year, looked...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S netballers failed to improve on last year’s fifth-place finish at the Fast5 Netball World series, which ended yesterday at the Wolfbrook Arena in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Sunshine Girls ended at the bottom of the table in the six-...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The second round of the ISSA urban schoolgirls netball competition begins today at 2:30 p.m. at the Leila Robinson courts. One team which is hoping to bring back the glory days of 2015 when they were crowned senior champions for their only ever...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:09 AM

PARIS (AP): Paris police said yesterday that 4,000 officers and 1,600 stadium staff will be deployed for a France-Israel football match, to ensure security in and around the stadium and on public transportation a week after violence against...

Published:Monday | November 11, 2024 | 12:09 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): Arsenal’s Premier League title challenge took another hit yesterday after a 1-1 draw with Chelsea. It’s now four games without a win in the league for Mikel Arteta’s team, which is nine points behind leaders Liverpool....

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