It will be another three months before Jamaica’s Olympic gymnast, Danusia Francis, makes a full recovery from the knee injury which prevented her from completing her artistic gymnastics event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Francis told The Gleaner...
Following government approval for national team training, president of the Jamaica Hockey Federation (JHF), Fabian Stewart, is anticipating that approval for competition is not far behind. The approval for senior men’s and women’s teams to begin...
After an impressive third-place finish at the end of the North American Cup season, Jamaican bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian is poised to receive qualification for the two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in February...
BOTH JAMAICA College (JC) and Clarendon College, firm favourites to come out of the first round of the ISSA Champions Cup, struggled today at the Stadium East field as schoolboy football restarted in earnest yesterday. Playing against Garvey Maceo...
DINTHILL TECHNICAL High School coach, Oneil Thomas, said his team is not the overwhelming favourite everybody assumes going into the ISSA Champions Cup quarter-final game against St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) today at the St Elizabeth...
YOUNG REGGAE Girlz coach Xavier Gilbert is in a race against time, even as he seeks to whittle down the final under-17 and under-20 squads for Concacaf age-group championships set to kick off as early as February. The final stage of the Concacaf...
A NUMBER of sports in Jamaica have been on an extended hiatus because of the health concerns spurred by the two-year-plus global pandemic, COVID-19. While sports such as rugby and boxing competed internationally, government approval to hold local...
National Director of football, Wendell Downswell, believes it is a great opportunity for the young players named in the Reggae Boyz squad to face Peru on January 20 in Lima, to stake their claim not only for a place in the current World Cup...
National cyclist Llori Sharpe, who recently signed a one-year contract with European female cycling team Canyon/Sram Generation, says her ambition is to represent Jamaica in the world’s biggest events. Sharpe, a former triathlete, has the...
VICE-PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Cycling Federation (JCF), Adrian Clarke, is up in arms with the German embassy, which has twice denied visa applications for national female cyclist Llori Sharpe. Sharpe, who recently signed a one-year contract with...
PRESIDENT OF the Aquatic Sports Association of Jamaica (ASAJ), Martin Lyn, is expecting the National Stadium pool to be reopened for use in another week, following the closure over a week ago, due to what he calls an unfortunate series of events....
THE AQUATIC Sports Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) is hoping it will be allowed to have fans for swim meets early in the new year. ASAJ president, Martin Lyn, said having fans will not only help to attract much-needed sponsorship but will also...
KINGSTON AND St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) vice president, Carvel Stewart, said the return of youth football should be given as much consideration as efforts being made for the resumption of senior parish competitions. Stewart argued that...
As a young footballer growing up in Trench Town, Damar Brown knows there are certain expectations that come with playing for Charlie Smith High School. Brown, one of Charlie Smith’s few returning players from the 2019 season, has scored seven of...
Last season, Humble Lion finished at the bottom of the 11-team Jamaica Premier League (JPL) standing with just six points from their ten matches. Before the league kicked off, coach Andrew Price said his team was going to have to play catch-up...
FOOTBALL AT the parish-association level in Jamaica is unlikely to restart unless all players and officials are vaccinated, seems to be the word coming down the pipes. Parish football associations (FAs) have worked with the Jamaica Football...
KEVIN COWAN, the agent of Jamaican footballer Shamar Nicholson, said the big striker who recently transferred to Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow should be an example to young aspiring players who desire to succeed in Europe. Cowan...
Local coaches have cautioned new Reggae Boyz coach Paul Hall over comments that suggest he wants to centre the national senior team’s attacks around talented winger Leon Bailey. Hall recently stated that he wants the team to get more balls to the...
Charleroi’s Jamaican striker, Shamar Nicholson, is on the move after a big first-half to the season in the Belgian Pro League. Media reports had suggested he would be moving to Russian Premier League outfit Spartak Moscow and would not be with the...
Interim senior men’s national football coach, Paul Hall, is planning to make Aston Villa forward Leon Bailey the focus of the Reggae Boyz’s attack for the remainder of the Concacaf World Cup qualifiers. Hall has his mind set on helping the winger...
Despite seven changes to the Jamaica College (JC) starting 11 that defeated St Andrew Technical in their last ISSA Manning Cup quarter-final round game, JC still eased past St Catherine High 3-1 in their final Group One match at Stadium East...
INTERIM SENIOR Reggae Girlz coach Vin Blaine said it will be difficult for locally based player to be included in the squad for the upcoming World Cup qualification or any immediate future tournaments, with the local women’s game virtually non-...
KINGSTON TECHNICAL High School’s (KTHS) Manning Cup coach, Shaun Charlton, says Kingston College (KC) is not unbeatable and believes his team can get the result they want against their North Street opponents in today’s quarter-final football match...
NEWLY APPOINTED interim head coach of the Reggae Boyz football team, Paul Hall, says commitment will be his main criteria when looking to select English-born professional players to represent the Reggae Boyz. In recent weeks a number of British-...
Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) Chief Executive Officer Courtney Francis says the Government has granted provisional approval for matches between the West Indies and Ireland at Sabina Park between January 8 and 16 next year. Ireland’s tour of the...
