Sports

Waite welcomes Fuller’s return

Published:Saturday | October 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Head coach of Tivoli Gardens FC, Jerome Waite, says the team and the wider community are thrilled to have talented winger Nickalia Fuller back in action after being sidelined for five months due to injury. Fuller, 20, recently made his long-awaited...

Dr Ali slams BCCI for barring players from outside T20 leagues

Published:Saturday | October 18, 2025 | 12:10 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): President of Guyana, Dr Irfaan Ali, has strongly criticised the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for its decision to bar players from competing in overseas T20 leagues, which includes the Guyana-based Guyana...

Sammy, Hope expect tough challenge from Bangladesh in ODI series

Published:Saturday | October 18, 2025 | 12:10 AM

MIRPUR, Bangladesh (CMC): Faced with a pitch for the opening ODI against Bangladesh that West Indies head coach Daren Sammy has described as something he’s never seen, he has called on his troops to quickly assess the conditions and make the...

Injury-free and ready: Agent says Lyston is back and targeting world elite

Published:Saturday | October 18, 2025 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Dwight ‘Bigga’ Thomas, the agent for 2022 World Under-20 200 metres champion Brianna Lyston, says the 21-year-old athlete is now injury-free and ready to make her mark on the global stage. Thomas, a three-time Olympian and member of Jamaica’s gold...

Newcomer Dothraki set to upstage Incredible Jo

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A Game of Thrones will be played out in Sunday’s overnight allowance between Americans INCREDIBLE JO and DOTHRAKI, yes, DOTHRAKI, a former Bob Baffert runner named after the fictional, nomadic horse-riding people in HBO’s wildly successful Game of...

No sweat for Wolmer’s Boys

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 12:08 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Wolmer’s Boys recorded their sixth win of the season with a comfortable 3-0 victory over hosts Ascot High in their ISSA/WATA Manning Cup Zone E match yesterday. The victory lifted the Jerome Waite-coached team to 18 points. Former champions Mona...

Portmore’s Austin has sights set on lifting JPL title

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 12:08 AM

Portmore United head coach Rodolph Austin is confident that his team can win the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) title this season but insists that they will be taking things one step at a time. Portmore are currently third in the standings with 15...

Busby turns to ‘core group’ in absence of key players

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 12:07 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Reggae Girlz head coach Hubert Busby Jr said he will once again turn to his core group of players for their upcoming friendly against Trinidad and Tobago, in the absence of several key players. Jamaica will face Trinidad in an international...

Douglas brings massive buzz to Holland High

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 12:07 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Principal of Holland High School, Dayle Evans, says there has been a massive buzz and wave of excitement throughout the school and wider community following the arrival of World Under-20 Championships 200 metres bronze and 4x100m gold medallist...

Door still open for Taylor Hinds

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 12:07 AM

HUBERT BUSBY JR, the Reggae Girlz head coach, said Taylor Hinds could still yet represent Jamaica, as her international future is not yet decided, despite her accepting a call-up to the England squad. Busby was speaking yesterday at a Jamaica...

Hubert Busby names Girlz squad for Trinidad friendly

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 3:35 PM

Reggae Girlz head coach Hubert Busby Jr has named his 20-player squad for the upcoming international friendly against Trinidad and Tobago ahead of the Concacaf W Qualifiers. Jamaica will face the twin-island republic on October 28 in Port of...

Seales fined for throw at Jaiswal

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 12:17 AM

DELHI, India (CMC): WEST INDIES fast bowler Jayden Seales has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee for breaching the ICC’s Code of Conduct in the second Test against India. Seales was found guilty of a Level 1 breach on Friday’s opening day of...

Hope, Campbell move up in Test batting rankings

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

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): SHAI HOPE and John Campbell were the biggest jumpers for the West Indies in the most recent ICC Test batting rankings. Hope, who scored 103 in the second innings of the second Test against India — his first Test...

STATHS, JC meet in Zone C top-of-the-table clash

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 12:16 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

FORMER CHAMPIONS Jamaica College (JC) and St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) will meet in today’s top-of-the-table clash in Zone C of the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup competition. The game will be played at the Ashenheim Stadium on Old Hope Road,...

Sharp Is That A Fact ready for Errol Subratie Memorial

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

IS THAT A FACT has been sharpened at exercise and looks ready to blow away overnight-allowance rivals at a mile in Saturday’s Errol Subratie Memorial. Jason DaCosta’s flag-bearer in grade one last year, IS THAT A FACT beat ATOMICA in the Chairman’s...

Four-star performance puts Glenmuir through

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 12:16 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

IT WAS one-way traffic for home team Glenmuir High School in their round-of-32 Group 5 ISSA daCosta Cup match against St Mary High, as the Andre Peart-coached side romped to an emphatic 10-0 win to take control of the group. Glenmuir now sit on six...

Unbeaten Manning’s through to round of 16

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 12:15 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

A SIZZLING performance by The Manning’s School put a stick in the spokes of the BB Coke High School’s wheels, ending their hopes of a round-of-16 berth with a 2-0 victory in the ISSA daCosta Cup competition yesterday at the St Elizabeth High School...

TRENCH TOWN CONNECTION

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 12:15 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

AFTER AN impressive 4-0 win over Bermuda in their Group B Concacaf World Cup Qualifier at the National Stadium on Tuesday, Reggae Boyz coach Steve McClaren said the chemistry between the Trench Town attacking trident of Shamar Nicholson, Renaldo...

Chase heartened by West Indies fightback

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 12:15 AM

DELHI, India (CMC): WEST INDIES Test captain Roston Chase has hailed his troops for their courageous performance against India in the second Test, despite losing the match and the Test series. The regional side pushed the match into the fifth and...

Boyz back on top

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 12:10 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

JAMAICA RETURNED to the top of the Group B standings in the Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers following an emphatic 4-0 victory over Bermuda last night at the National Stadium. An own goal from Bermudan defender Dante Leverock opened the scoring for...

JAAA tackles World Athletics ratification issues

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 12:09 AMKaren Madden/Gleaner Writer

TRACK AND field’s local governing body, the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), is seeking to prevent last year’s controversy where some local meets were not ratified by World Athletics because they had not been registered. The...

PFJL praises FIFA, JFF club-development workshop

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

OWEN HILL, CEO of Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL), has praised the recent two-day Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and FIFA Club Management Professional Development Workshop as a major step forward for Jamaican clubs. Hill was...

South Africa join smallest country Cape Verde at biggest World Cup

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 12:09 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP): SOUTH AFRICA became the latest African nation to qualify for the 2026 World Cup after beating Rwanda 3-0 yesterday to top their qualifying group, despite being docked three points for fielding an ineligible player in earlier...

Late bloomer Bowen eyes more improvement

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LIGHTWEIGHT SHARIC Bowen has become accustomed to gradual improvement throughout his martial arts journey, describing himself as a “late bloomer”. However, having won a bronze medal at his first International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur...

South Africa face daunting chase in Lahore