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Tamar Lambert has been confirmed as captain of Jamaica’s senior cricket team for the upcoming Regional One Day competition starting on November 14.

Nigel Webb and Kaydian Carney have remained the top ranked table tennis players despite missing the last two tournaments, the Inter-Bauxite competition and the St. Mary Parish Tournament.

Defending champions Portmore United and Reno battled to a 1-1 draw at Ferdie Neita Park yesterday in a rescheduled Digicel Premier League game.

Jamaica last night kept alive their hopes of advancing to the final round of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying with a crucial 1-0 victory over Honduras at the National Stadium.

In Group ‘A’ of the CONCACAF qualifiers, Dwight Yorke converted a 79th-minute penalty to give Trinidad and Tobago a 2-1 victory over the United States, moving the country to the brink of the final round.

Former Jamaica and West Indies off spin bowler Nehemiah Perry last night walked away with the Courtney Walsh Award for Excellence at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.

More than US$70,000 in prize money will be up for grabs at the 45th staging of the Jamaica Golf Open Championships, which was launched yesterday at the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay.

The quarterfinal playoffs in the KFC National Basketball League begin this evening at the National Stadium Court with a double-header.

Arnett Gardens secured its first points of the 2008 to 2009 Digicel Premier League season yesterday with a 1-0 victory

Members of the Mexico team are now in the island for Saturday’s crucial Group B CONCACAF World Cup qualifying match against Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz.

Brigitte Foster-Hylton, a two-time World Athletics Championships 100-metres hurdles medalist, has decided against retiring from the sport.

Days ahead of their crucial CONCACAF World Cup qualifying match against Mexico, Jamaica have slipped to their lowest ever FIFA rankings following defeats against Mexico and Honduras.