TRACK AND field stakeholders, the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport and the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), are still making their way through the fallout of having four athletes declare the intention to...
A GAP in the public education programme is being blamed for some athletes not being aware of the financial assistance available to them. Eyebrows were raised during the recently concluded World Athletics Championships when 400-metre hurdler Assinie...
Basking in the feeling of being the first Jamaican man to reach the top of a World Athletics Championship podium, since Usain Bolt did in 2015, 100 metre Champion Oblique Seville returned to the island on Wednesday evening. Exuding quiet confidence...
BELGIUM’S AMBASSADOR to Jamaica, Ellen de Geest, during the handover of equipment to Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz at her residence yesterday, says, as part of her country’s foreign policy, she wants to support women’s football in Jamaica. Also present...
TRACK AND field analyst Leighton Levy has attributed American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s blistering time at the just-concluded World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, to a combination of her speed, the strength she gained from her training...
WHEN SHELLY-ANN Fraser-Pryce handed over the baton to Tia Clayton in the women’s 4x100-metre relay at the World Athletics Championships, she was absolutely sure that her decision to step away from the main stage was the right one. “When I stepped...
A PALL of gloom hung overEdwin Allen High School in Clarendon yesterday as students, teachers and support staff assembled for devotion following last Friday’s sudden passing of student athlete Tanisha Gayle. Fifteen-year-old Gayle died at the Percy...
Already a senior citizen, Yvonne Rosemarie Shaw, more commonly referred to as Rosemarie Shaw, will perhaps be the oldest first-time parliamentarian when she is sworn in to represent the people of St Thomas Eastern. Following an often ill-tempered...
Voting was extended in several polling divisions as long lines of disgruntled voters, many waiting for extended periods to cast their ballots, was an unpleasant feature of yesterday’s general election. Sweat-drenched voters battled searing...
When polls close today, over 50 candidates from outside Jamaica’s two main political parties – the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) – will be hoping for a political breakthrough. This includes candidates from the...
After five consecutive defeats at the polls, many politicians would have long thrown in the towel. However, Joan Gordon-Webley isn’t built that way. Despite her rivals’ taunts, the veteran politician insists she is no loser, and is now eyeing what...
Clarendon North Central has been firmly in Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) hands for more than two decades, but People’s National Party (PNP) newcomer Dr Aujae Dixon is hoping to break that streak when Jamaicans head to the polls on September 3. The...
Maureen Lorne insists that when the ballots are counted in St Andrew South Western on election night, Jamaicans will witness the unmistakable writing on the wall: a PNP stronghold of nearly four decades is on its way back to the Jamaica Labour...
If there is one name that has become synonymous with persistence in Jamaican politics, it is Joseph ‘Bunny’ Witter. Despite never winning an election, the People’s National Party (PNP) standard-bearer has carved out a reputation as one of the...
Businessman and parliamentary hopeful Paul Patmore says one of his main motivations for contesting the upcoming general election is to restore Trelawny Southern from what he describes as 20 years of neglect – and to make it a model for farming...
Ethnie Miller-Simpson is getting accustomed to her surname evoking memories of former People’s National Party President and Jamaica’s only female prime minister, Portia Simpson-Miller. While she deeply admires the trailblasing PNP leader, Miller-...
Bouyed by what she describes as renewed energy in St Ann South Western after years of neglect, first-time political aspirant Danishka Williams is making the audacious claim that she will return the seat to the People’s National Party (PNP) come...
Paul Buchanan has once again stepped into the political ring, hoping to create the biggest upset in this general election by wresting St Andrew West Central from Prime Minister and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Dr Andrew Holness. The People’s...
