PHILLIP WILLIAMS, head coach of the 2019 beaten Manning Cup finalists, St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS), said he expects his team to be very competitive this season, despite the fact they have not retained any of their players from two...
FORMER NATIONAL senior women’s football coach, Charles Edwards, and general manager of Harbour View Football Club, Clyde Jureidini, said they are in full support of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) decision to suspend Reggae Girlz head coach...
DESPITE NOT having the ideal preparation that he would have liked going into this season due to COVID-19 pandemic, Davion Ferguson, coach of defending Manning Cup champions Jamaica College (JC), is confident that they can retain their title. The...
MARVA BERNARD, president of the Americas Federation of Netball Associations (AFNA), was beaming with pride after it was announced by the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) yesterday that netball has been added to the Central American and Caribbean (...
Three Corporate Area venues have been selected by the Inter-Secondary Schools’ Sports Association (ISSA) to host matches in the preliminary round of the Manning Cup, while 16 venues have been chosen to stage games in the preliminary phase of the...
General Secretary Dalton Wint says the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) will use The Ticket Fairy, an electronic ticketing system, for its FIFA World Cup qualifying match against the United States of America at the National Stadium on November 16...
Former Sunshine Girls captain Simone Forbes will square off with Garth Sommerville for the post of first vice-president at Netball Jamaica’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) tomorrow. Forbes, who has been a director at NJ for three years, said she...
The Gleaner has been reliably informed that Netball Jamaica (NJ) has reached a settlement with one of its insurance companies to replace one of the two buses that were stolen in August. The vehicles were reportedly stripped of their decals before...
With less than two weeks to go before the start of the DaCosta Cup, Clarendon College head coach Lenworth Hyde says that the reigning champions are behind in their preparation. ISSA, the governing body for secondary-school sports, announced on...
THE IMPRESSIVE filly, PRNCSSHOOTINGSTAR, with Oneil Mullings aboard, is the ante-post favourite for the 17th running of the Supreme Ventures Limited Cash Spot Only One For Me Trophy for two- year-olds, which will be run over 1200 metres on Saturday...
Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls will be looking to sweep their Three-Test Sunshine Series against Caribbean rivals Trinidad and Tobago when both teams square off in their third and final match at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston at 6 p.m....
Having soundly beaten Trinidad and Tobago in the opening match of their Three-Test series, Sunshine Girls’ head coach Connie Francis said she is expecting another clinical performance from the Jamaicans in game two today at the National Indoor...
National senior men’s football team head coach Theodore Whitmore said that their win over Honduras in their FIFA World Cup qualifier on Wednesday is a big relief for the Reggae Boyz and a step in the right direction for the team. The Reggae Boyz...
National senior men’s football team captain Andre Blake has warned that the Reggae Boyz will have to be at their best if they are going to come away with a positive result against hosts Honduras in their FIFA World Cup Qualifier tomorrow. Like the...
PRESIDENT OF Netball Jamaica (NJ) Tricia Robinson has defended her organisation’s decision to have a select male team compete against the Sunshine Girls and Trinidad and Tobago in this month’s tri-nation series. The male team, which is coached by...
Under pressure to save his job, senior national men’s football team head coach Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore has been warned by his employers that he must secure a minimum of five points from the Reggae Boyz’s three games in the FIFA World Cup...
Professional Football Jamaica Chairman Christopher Williams said they will be proposing changes to its protocols for the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) next season to the Government in an effort to have supporters back at games. Majority of the...
Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) First Vice-President Ian Forbes said there is a possibility that the 2021-22 local track and field season will be off to another late start because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus has caused 1...
HISTORY-MAKING female jockey, Samantha Fletcher, said she is not getting carried away by Monday’s success in the saddle and remains humbled by her achievements at Caymanas Park. The 29-year-old Fletcher became the first female rider to ride a hat-...
Barbados Netball Association (BNA) President Nisha Craigwell says they have passed on an invitation from Netball Jamaica (NJ) to participate in a tri-nation series next month. The series, which also involves Trinidad and Tobago (T...
Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls and England Roses are scheduled to square off in a three-test netball series in London, England in November. The Vitality Roses Reunited Series, is scheduled to begin at the Copper Box Arena in London on November 28, before...
English Premier League side Brentford FC donated football gear valued at over £10,000 (just over J$2 million) to the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) yesterday. Rudi Page, from London-based Making Connections Work, who brokered...
Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Technical Committee Chairman Rudolph Speid is lamenting the stagnation of women’s football because of the absence of the local leagues. There have been numerous calls from the local fraternity for the return of the...
