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Published:Sunday | June 4, 2023 | 12:38 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

DESPITE JAMAICA’S disappointing performance at the recently concluded Pan American Championships in Colombia, the country still has reasons to smile. Michael Reid has become the second Jamaican gymnast behind teammate Caleb Faulk to have their...

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2023 | 2:14 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

CAVALIER BOOKED their spot in the final of the Jamaica Women’s Premier League following a commanding 10-1 victory (16-3 on aggregate) over Vere United yesterday at the UWI-JFF Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence. Vere, who started the...

Published:Sunday | May 21, 2023 | 12:40 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

AFTER THE absence of a medical team caused a 44-minute delay to the start of the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) first-leg semifinal, the Everdean Scarlett-coached Cavalier outfit ran away with a 6-2 victory over Vere United at the UWI-JFF...

Published:Sunday | May 14, 2023 | 1:48 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

THE XAVIER Gilbert-coached Frazsiers Whip lifted their first club title, registering a 2-1 extra-time victory over Cavalier in the final of the Jamaica Women’s Premier League Knockout(JWPL KO) competition yesterday at the UWI-JFF Captain Horace...

Published:Sunday | May 7, 2023 | 1:36 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

DEFENDING NATIONAL Basketball League (NBL) champions St George’s Slayers will look to retain their title when the island’s top-flight basketball league tips off later this month. Head coach of the Slayers, Rohan Robinson, who is yet to have his...

Published:Sunday | April 30, 2023 | 12:28 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

FIVE MEMBERS of a Jamaican judo team headed to the Dominican Republic in a bid to qualify for the 2023 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games two weeks ago. Quietly, the five punched their ticket to the CAC Games, the lack of fanfare belying...

Published:Sunday | April 23, 2023 | 2:07 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

AS FAR as the east is from the west, so it was in terms of the quality difference between Cavalier and Rangers FC as the former made their place in the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) Knockout competition official. Following the 21-0...

Published:Sunday | April 16, 2023 | 1:46 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Squash Association, Karen Anderson, believes the 2023 staging of the KPMG Squash League, which made its return to the Liguanea Club in St Andrew after a three-year hiatus, was a tremendous success. According to Anderson,...

Published:Sunday | April 16, 2023 | 1:26 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

ST ANN Orchids head coach, Kurt Dale, noticed something on Friday night when his team were downed 54-62 by the Manchester Spurs in the first game of the best of three Seprod/Netball Jamaica Elite League final inside the National Arena. According...

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2023 | 10:31 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

WITH her high-school days long gone, former St Thomas Technical standout, 2006 World Junior bronze medallist in the 4x100-m relays-turned-bobsledder, Carrie Russell, believes the highlight of the ongoing ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2023 | 10:28 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, has hailed the performances of Jamaica’s junior athletes at the just-concluded ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium, as...

Published:Sunday | March 19, 2023 | 1:50 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN Academy (ECA) are the Youth Football League’s Under-9 Junior Cup champions after a 4-1 win over Sts Peter and Paul Preparatory yesterday at the Constant Spring playfield. The Gregory Jones-coached team entered Saturday’s final...

Published:Sunday | March 5, 2023 | 2:03 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

FOUNDED IN 1974, reigning Jamaica Premier League (JPL) champions Harbour View Football Club, nicknamed ‘Stars of the East’, celebrated 49 years of existence yesterday. According to the club’s General Manager Clyde Jureidini, the organisation was...

Published:Sunday | March 5, 2023 | 1:07 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

ACTION IN the Junior Cup Under-9 football competition kicked off yesterday at the Constant Spring Football Field in Kingston, and it was the exploits of the young lads from Emmanuel Christian Academy that stole the show on day one. Emmanuel went...

Published:Sunday | February 19, 2023 | 4:55 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING A three-year hiatus, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and financial issues, Jamaica’s top-flight netball competition, Elite League, is set for a return, come March 10. The return of the league will also see a new sponsor of the...

Published:Sunday | February 12, 2023 | 1:45 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

BRITISH-BORN JAMAICAN gymnast, Tyesha Mattis, gave herself a fantastic chance of making the team to the Pan American Gymnastics Championships in Colombia later this year after winning the senior title in the ongoing Supreme Ventures-sponsored...

Published:Sunday | February 12, 2023 | 1:39 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING JAMAICA’S exciting 3-2 victory over the Estonia at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre in Kingston last weekend, the Mel Spence-coached team will now shift its attention to world number 47th-ranked Lebanon in Group II of the Davis Cup from...

Published:Sunday | February 5, 2023 | 2:47 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

JAMAICA’S NUMBER-TWO seed, Rowland ‘Randy’ Phillips, started off what was to be a good day for Jamaica in their Davis Cup tie against Estonio at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre yesterday. Phillips easily dispatched Estonia’s number-one seed, Kristjan...

Published:Sunday | February 5, 2023 | 12:45 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

WEST INDIES women’s selectors are doubling down on their choice to have the injured Stafanie Taylor as part of the West Indies Women’s T20 World Cup team set to bow into action in another week. Despite being injured since October 2022, lead...

Published:Sunday | January 29, 2023 | 2:11 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Elite Horizon and Elite Storm will face off in the final of Elite 1 Caribbean Basketball League competition which takes place today at the National Arena beginning at 8 p.m. The teams were making the final after contrasting wins...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2023 | 1:46 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

JAMAICAN INTERNATIONAL and Aston Villa winger Leon Bailey says growing up with nothing has spurred a spirit of giving back that he, through his foundation, promises to keep alive. Speaking with Sky Sports, Bailey revealed that giving back is as...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2023 | 1:37 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

FORMER ST George’s College standout Alex Marshall has inked a two-and-a-half-year deal with seven-time Jamaica Premier League winners, Portmore United. The 24-year-old Marshall, who recently returned to the island following a brief stint in the...

Published:Sunday | January 15, 2023 | 1:43 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

AT JUST 15 years old, shooting sensation Aliana McMaster could become a three-time champion if all the chips fall in her favour when action in the 2023 Proven David East Memorial Sporting Clay Challenge gets under way later today. The event, set...

Published:Sunday | January 8, 2023 | 1:25 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

REIGNING MANNING Cup champions Jamaica College will have eight players representing the Old Hope Road-based school in the highly anticipated return of the All-Manning versus All-daCosta Cup all-star fixture, while rural-area giants Clarendon...

Published:Sunday | January 1, 2023 | 12:40 AMOrane Buchanan - Staff Reporter

THE TALKING point of 2022 for the Jamaica Premier League (JPL), on the field in any case, would have been the return of fans for fixtures following the two-year challenge the COVID-19 pandemic threw up. First, there was an announcement of...

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