The All Jamaica (AJ) Tennis senior, junior and amateur championships, slated to run from today until December 22, will be held under the strictest COVID-19 safety protocols, Tennis Jamaica (TJ) president John Azar said at yesterday’s launch at the...
FORMER national senior women’s football team head coach Vin Blaine returns to the national set-up and will take charge of the Reggae Girlz’s FIFA Women’s World Cup qualification campaign. Blaine, who coached the team for over a decade, confirmed...
WORLD ATHLETICS Female Athlete of the Year and back-to-back Olympic sprint double champion, Elaine Thompson Herah, and Olympic men’s 110-metres hurdles gold medal winner, Hansle Parchment, headline the field for the annual RJRGLEANER Sports...
KEITH WELLINGTON, president of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), has come out swinging at the suggestion that the expulsion of Camperdown and Tivoli high schools from the Digicel Manning Cup was, perhaps, an incorrect decision...
Damar Brown’s brace was enough to see Charlie Smith to a 2-1 win over St George’s College (STGC) in Group A of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup football competition at Stadium East yesterday. The result put Charlie Smith level on 12 points with...
Football administrators Carvel Stewart and Herman Cruickshank say the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is taking too long to act on the recommendation of its Technical Committee to fire national senior men’s team head coach Theodore ‘Tappa’...
Family, friends, and co-workers of late coach, educator, and administrator Wilbert Parkes remember him as a gentleman, a professional and an educator who went beyond the call of duty. Parkes was buried at Meadowrest Memorial Gardens in St Catherine...
Excelsior, Jonathan Grant, Tivoli and St Andrew Technical all go into their final Group B ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup football games this afternoon with hopes of securing an automatic second-round qualifying spot. The top two teams from each group...
JONATHAN GRANT High School and Excelsior High School scored important victories as the race in Group B of the Inter-Secondary Schools’ Sports Association (ISSA) Manning Cup football competition intensified yesterday. Excelsior High slammed Jose...
COURTNEY FRANCIS, CEO of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA), is cautiously optimistic that approvals for the return of local cricket could be granted soon. Francis revealed that the JCA has submitted two requests, one for the approval for the...
A NUMBER of 13-year-old boys have been making their mark in this season’s ISSA/Manning Cup schoolboy football competition. And although it was not uncommon to see the odd 13-year-old getting a ‘run’ in previous competitions, the regularity with...
The big scorelines in this season’s ISSA schoolboy football competitions have once again led to calls for a second-tier competition or a process of elimination for the very weak teams. St Catherine High School clobbered St Mary’s College 26-0...
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Special Olympics Jamaica Lorna Bell says that the Special Olympics Caribbean’s recent partnership with Aruna Oswal Trust Lions Club International Foundation will continue to help develop their programmes and provide support to...
Boxer Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown, who recently signed his first professional contract, says the goal is to become a world champion in the next three years. Brown says that achieving his goal will not be easy but that the experience he has gained at the...
Professional Football Jamaica (PFJ) Chairman Christopher Williams says a major regional entity could join the list of sponsors for next season’s Jamaica Premier League (JPL). Williams said that last season’s JPL was so popular across the Caribbean...
CHAIRMAN OF the Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL), Christopher Williams, has announced a raft of plans for this coming Jamaica Premier League (JPL), including extending the competition to have two full rounds of preliminary matches, as...
SKATEBOARDER JOEL Ricketts, who will make a historic appearance for Jamaica at the Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia, which gets under way today, said that despite his inexperience, he would not be surprised if he takes home a medal. He...
KINGSTON HIGH pulled off a major upset in the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/Manning Cup Group A football match at the Stadium East playing field, beating high-riding Calabar High 1-0 in a dramatic affair yesterday. Captain...
CAMPERDOWN HIGH School has made one of the most impressive starts to this season’s ISSA Manning Cup competition. The east Kingston-based school has registered three wins from as many games, defeating Dunoon 5-0, Jose Marti 3-0, while coming from...
Football coaches Ludlow Bernard and Calvert Fitzgerald say Jamaica’s hopes of making it to the FIFA World Cup next year are thin after their last two results. They say that for the Reggae Boyz to qualify, they must win their remaining games and...
Davion Ferguson, coach of defending Manning Cup champions, Jamaica College (JC), said he is looking for an improved performance and the team’s first three points of the season, when they take on Kingston Technical, in one of three Group A games on...
IN AN interesting twist of fate, three great friends who are in their first stint as head coach or assistant coach in this season’s Inter-Secondary Schools’ Sports Association (ISSA) schoolboy Manning Cup competition were pitched against each other...
Last season’s runners-up St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) went into their Group B ISSA Manning Cup game against Tivoli Gardens High School eyeing a win but could only manage a 1-1 draw at Ashenheim Stadium yesterday. However, head coach...
Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Referee’s Department manager Victor Stewart says that their complement of officials for this schoolboy football season, which kicked off on Friday, have all been fully vaccinated. Stewart says, however, that a...
St Jago High School head coach Jerome Waite is looking for an improvement on their 2-2 draw with St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) when they face Jonathan Grant High School in a Spanish Town derby in Group B of the ISSA Manning Cup at the...
