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...
If Tivoli Gardens Head Coach Philip Williams was excited about his team’s return to the Jamaica Premier League playoffs, one could not tell from his grounded demeanor, with his business-like approach to the assignments to come, belying the...
NATIONAL PARALYMPIANS head coach Neville Sinclair has called on local companies to make an investment in the nation’s para athletes. Grant’s plea came after the country’s dismal performance at this year’s showing at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo,...
Craig Butler, Leon Bailey’s manager, says he will be back to action for Aston Villa against Brentford in the English Premier League (EPL) today. Butler says Bailey is now fully recovered from a series of niggling injuries he picked up at the...
PRESIDENT OF the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), Keith Wellington, said his organisation is currently working on developing a database, which will allow for only fully vaccinated spectators to attend schoolboy football matches...
With competitive action likely to return to Dover Raceway on Independence Day, August 6, Doug Gore, marketing director of the Jamaica Race Drivers Club (JRDC), said his association is now actively seeking sponsorship for the repavement of a section...
Top female jockey Samantha Fletcher said she is delighted with the announcement that Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) will be offering a $100,000-incentive to the female jockey with the most wins at the end of each quarter...
WORLD CHAMPION-SHIPS 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist Ristananna Tracey says the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected her both mentally and financially. Up to Friday, Jamaica has recorded 575 confirmed cases of the deadly virus. Two hundred...
PRESIDENT OF the United Racehorse Trainers Association, Ryan Darby, says his organisation has proposed June 13 for the resumption of racing at Caymanas Park. Darby told The Sunday Gleaner that they recently signed off on a memorandum of...
President of the Jamaica Cricket Association, Wilford ‘Billy’ Heaven, says he is not surprised by the decision of the management of the Jamaica Tallawahs to leave captain Chris Gayle off their roster for this season’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL...
Minister of Sports Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange says that preparation work for the redevelopment of the National Stadium complex is continuing despite the threat of the COVID-19 virus locally. Up to yesterday, 69 persons tested positive for the virus....
