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Published:Monday | September 9, 2024 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

CORNWALL COLLEGE’S head coach, Theodore Whitmore, heaped praise on his team after they came from behind to score an emphatic 4-1 win over Herbert Morrison Technical High School in their opening match of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup on Saturday night...

Published:Friday | September 6, 2024 | 12:07 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

CORNWALL COLLEGE assistant coach Hector Wright says preparations for the upcoming daCosta Cup season are going well and they are ready for the task ahead. “We have gone through pre-season in terms of endurance, strength, speed training and a lot...

Published:Wednesday | September 4, 2024 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

THE RETURN of Shijo Saiko Martial Arts Academy on Saturday has come with a sense of nostalgia for Montegonians who will have first-class access to karate training 25 years after the institution’s original closure. The academy’s grand reopening and...

Published:Tuesday | September 3, 2024 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: ‘Teamwork makes the dream work’ was the theme at Saturday’s back-to-school health fair at the St James Parish Church Hall in Montego Bay, St James, where charitable United States (US)-based Jamaicans, Dr Kingsley Thomas and Dr...

Published:Friday | August 30, 2024 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: The organisers of the 2024 edition of the annual Tryall-CUMI (Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill) Charity Golf Tournament, which will be staged on September 14 at the Tryall Golf Club in Hanover, will be seeking to...

Published:Friday | August 23, 2024 | 12:13 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: A week has passed since 38-year-old Marlon Davis was fatally shot while on a bird-shooting expedition in the bushes near Barrett Hall, St James. Despite the time that has elapsed, his family remains in deep mourning, still grappling...

Published:Tuesday | August 20, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Team Takeover did a demolition job on P.H.A.S.E 1 Kingston (P1A Kingston, thrashing them 62-21 to become first champions of the JamRockers Under-17 Basketball Classic at the Montego Bay Community College on Sunday afternoon. The Washington DC-...

Published:Tuesday | August 20, 2024 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

National Basketball Association (NBA) player Tari Eason, one of the sponsors of last weekend’s JamRockers Under-17 Basketball Classic tournament in Montego Bay, says he wants to continue to invest in basketball programmes locally and help more...

Published:Monday | August 19, 2024 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

St Catherine High were crowned the first champions of the First Half Only 45 Football Extravaganza at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on Saturday night. The Spanish Town-based school blanked Manchester High 3-0 in the final. In a nail-biting sudden...

Published:Saturday | August 17, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

The JamRockers Basketball Classics for under-17 players is underway at the Montego Bay Community College. Two coaches, Chuck Henry, head coach for Team Takeover from Washington DC, and Mark Francis, coach of Phase 1 Academy International, are...

Published:Friday | August 16, 2024 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

The P.H.A.S.E 1 Academy JamRockers Basketball Classic, a competition for under-17 players, will tip off today at the Montego Bay Community College. The competition, which is being held for the first time, will see six teams participating over...

Published:Tuesday | August 6, 2024 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: At 11 years old, Desandra Clarke, who was the highest-ranked Primary Exit Profile (PEP) student in western Jamaica for the 2023-2024 academic year, is full of big dreams and lofty ambitions. The self-assured youngster, who wants to...

Published:Saturday | August 3, 2024 | 12:09 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

National sprinter Kemba Nelson says she is ready to give 100 per cent after she was added to the Paris Olympics women’s 4x100 metres pool on Thursday. The team management in Paris was forced to bring in reinforcements after Shericka Jackson pulled...

Published:Tuesday | July 23, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

NEW HEAD coach of Montego Bay United FC (MBU), Argentinian Rodolfo Zapata, believes fresh ideas, tied to his experience can take the club to the next level. The team recently announced Zapata as the new head coach after parting ways with Brazilian...

Published:Monday | July 1, 2024 | 7:42 PMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

The National Commercial Bank (NCB) recently hosted a special Father’s Day Cocktail event at Reading Heights in St James in a heartwarming celebration of fatherhood that marked the culmination of a month-long tribute to fathers and father figures...

Published:Saturday | June 29, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Already among the top achievers in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination, Whitter’s Institute graduates have been reminded that they are the architects of the future. The graduating class of 21 students basked in their accolades during the...

Published:Saturday | June 22, 2024 | 12:08 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Corinaldi Avenue Primary School, for the 18th consecutive year, emerged champions of the 2024 St James Municipal Under-12 Netball Competition at the Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club on Thursday. In the much-anticipated final, Corinaldi defeated...

Published:Friday | June 14, 2024 | 12:07 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

A mangled minibus, half-eaten food scattered on the ground, and a tree bent from the force of the impact painted a grim picture in the aftermath of the tragic accident that claimed one life along the Font Hill main road in St Elizabeth early...

Published:Friday | June 14, 2024 | 12:07 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

The dead and dearly departed are in good hands. This according to licensed funeral director Christina Millwood-Nicholson. The 31-year-old Millwood-Nicholson, who is from Manchester and now resides in New York, owns Unique Mortuary Supplies, located...

Published:Monday | June 10, 2024 | 12:06 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Yoni Epstein, chairman and CEO of itel, became the 13th laureate from Jamaica to receive the Anthony N. Sabga prestigious Caribbean Excellence Award last weekend. The annual event was held at Hilton Barbados Hotel in Barbados recently. Epstein won...

Published:Tuesday | May 28, 2024 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

WHILE NEIDER dos Santos was ready to come back to Montego Bay United Football Club (MBU) for preseason, the team had other plans and is currently in the process of announcing a replacement. In a Gleaner interview with Dos Santos, he said the...

Published:Friday | May 17, 2024 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

The St James Municipal Corporation are the new title sponsors of the St James Primary Schools Netball under-12 competition. The launch for this year’s competition took place at the Montego Bay Boys and Girls’ Club in Montego Bay yesterday. The...

Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2024 | 12:08 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

‘Same mission, bolder vision … Our look might have changed, but our heart hasn’t’ was the watchword of the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run’s organising committee as they unveiled a new logo to redefine the annual run/walk event’s brand. The new logo’s...

Published:Friday | April 26, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Fabian Kelvin, a man associated with the Irwin High School’s football team and listed on match cards as manager, will have his case of grievous sexual assault against a student, heard in the St James Parish Court on May 21. Kelvin, who sources at...

Published:Tuesday | April 23, 2024 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Boxing may be viewed by some people as a barbaric sport, but for Dr Lola Cunningham it can be a helpful tool to curb crime and violence among students and as an alternative to work off their pent-up anger if it is introduced in schools. Cunningham...

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