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Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:08 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

General manager of Jamaica Premier League (JPL) club Dunbeholden, Roger Simmonds, has confirmed that former coach Harold Thomas has taken over the reins as head coach of the team after Byjeon Thomas tendered his resignation earlier this week....

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

GROS, ISLET, St Lucia (CMC): For the first time in its history, the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has surpassed the billion-viewership mark, combining digital and broadcast platforms. The total audience for the 2024 tournament...

Published:Friday | January 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): All the preparation work and team planning will be out the window today as the West Indies cricket team gears up for a long-awaited return to Pakistan’s Test arena, as they face off against the hosts in the first of two...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

NO QUARTER will be given on the lead in Saturday’s George HoSang Trophy in which speedsters MUDSHAFT, BENSON, FREEDOM STREET, and THALITA should have a battle royal at six furlongs. Whereas BENSON might be class-suspect, overnight-allowance winner...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:14 AM

NETBALL JAMAICA has released the names of the under-21 Sunshine Girls squad that will face their South African counterparts, the SPAR Baby Proteas, as part of the Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series starting Saturday at the National Indoor Sports...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:13 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

ASTON VILLA winger Leon Bailey is the highest-earning Jamaican player in the English Premier League (EPL) and the joint sixth top-paid player at his club. Bailey, who collects a weekly salary of £120,000, which amounts to over £6.2 million per year...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:13 AM

SUPREME VENTURES Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL), operators of Caymanas Park, have added some innovation to the racing calendar with quarterly race meets in 2025. Each race meet will celebrate legendary figures in Jamaica’s rich horse-...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:12 AM

BANGI, Malaysia (CMC): EMMA MCLEOD scored a half-century, and her opening partner, Kate Irwin, added 46 as New Zealand Under-19 Women strolled to a comfortable 79-run win over West Indies Under-19 Women in their warm-up match at the UKM-YSD Cricket...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:12 AM

MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): WEST INDIES Test head coach Andre Coley believes that the regional side is fully prepared for whatever conditions they face in their upcoming Test series against Pakistan. The West Indies will take on the home side in a two-...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:12 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

FOOTBALL COACHES at the under-14 and under-16 schoolboy level are not happy with the level of investment put into the sport, especially in comparison to the hugely popular Manning and daCosta Cup competitions, which highlight under-19 talent. The...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:09 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: JAMAICA LOST arguably its most accomplished tennis player yesterday with the passing of Richard Russell, who died at his home in Montego Bay following a protracted period of illness. Russell, who was 79 years old and who had the...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 1:04 PM

Renowned international tennis legend Richard Russell has died at the age of 79. Russell died early this morning at the Hospiten Hospital in Montego Bay, three days after being admitted with pneumonia, his son Rayne confirmed to The Gleaner. A...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:22 AM

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): SHERFANE RUTHERFORD hit a scintillating 40 off just 18 balls and the Desert Vipers recorded their second consecutive win in the International League T20 with a comfortable six-wicket victory over the Gulf...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:22 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): JOÃO FONSECA definitively introduced himself to the world as the latest teen sensation in men’s tennis yesterday, upsetting number-nine seed Andrey Rublev 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the first round of the Australian Open....

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:21 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

URBAN CHAMPIONS St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) and Kingston College (KC) crowned themselves ISSA Mighty Malt Under-16 and Burger King Under-14 All-Island schoolboy football champions with comprehensive wins over rural winners, Glenmuir...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:20 AM

AP: SOME OF the medals from the Paris Olympics seem to be quickly losing their shine. The French mint told The Associated Press yesterday that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:20 AM

COACH AT Hurdles Mechanics, Kemar Mowatt, has confirmed that world under-20 100-metre champion, Alana Reid, is now operating out of the Arkansas University-based club. Reid, who rose to fame when she clocked 10.92 seconds to become Jamaica’s junior...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:19 AM

AT THE first executive meeting of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) for 2025 on Friday, the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) was officially approved as hosts of the organisation’s XIV Annual Workshop and XXIII Annual...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:18 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): LEGENDARY WEST Indies captain Sir Clive Lloyd will head the operations of Guyana’s proposed Cricket Academy. The announcement was recently made by Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sports, Charles Ramson Jr., with the 80-...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:18 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

REGGAE GIRL Siobhan Wilson will, for the remainder of the Women’s Championship season, play for Southampton FC after the two brokered a loan agreement announced on Friday. The versatile left-sided player, who has been with Birmingham since 2022,...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:17 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A PROLONGED Game of Thrones involving the St Catherine Football Association (SCFA) and its affiliates resulted in last Sunday’s start of the Major League being postponed indefinitely, leaving overburdened clubs and hundreds of footballers in limbo...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:10 AM

A DOMESTIC-BASED Reggae Boyz contingent is set to face Trinidad and Tobago in a pair of international friendlies for the third year in a row as the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) ramps up its preparations for the Concacaf Gold Cup Preliminaries...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

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Published:Tuesday | January 14, 2025 | 9:44 AM

Some of the medals from the Paris Olympics seem to be quickly losing their shine. The French mint told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained...

Published:Tuesday | January 14, 2025 | 12:22 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

IN A bid to get much-needed match practice ahead of the Netball Youth World Cup, scheduled to take place from September 19-28 in Gibraltar, South Africa’s under-21 team arrived in Jamaica on Saturday night, accompanying their senior team, who are...

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