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Published:Monday | August 30, 2021 | 12:07 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Gymnastics Association (JGA) has signed a multi-year partnership with United Kingdom-based Quatro Gymnastics, an apparel company. The partnership, which will be extended through to the next Olympic cycle, will see Quatro becoming the...

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2021 | 12:08 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

President Tricia Robinson says Netball Jamaica (NJ) has been approached by persons within the diaspora who would like to assist the association by hosting a fundraiser to purchase a new team bus. NJ’s two Toyota Coaster buses, used to transport the...

Published:Friday | August 20, 2021 | 12:13 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) General Manager Lorna Gooden says the digital screen that will replace the tote board at Caymanas Park has now arrived in the island. Gooden told The Gleaner that SVREL has now begun the...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2021 | 12:10 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has provided Netball Jamaica (NJ) with a new bus for the transportation of its teams. Two of NJ’s Toyota Coaster buses, which were donated by sponsors, were said to be stripped of their decals before being...

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2021 | 12:11 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

KEITH WELLINGTON, president of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), said he will be lobbying the principals to encourage their students to take the COVID-19 vaccine to allow for a safe return of high school sports in Jamaica. ISSA...

Published:Tuesday | August 17, 2021 | 12:09 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Netball Jamaica (NJ) President Tricia Robinson was at a loss for words after waking up to the news on Monday morning that thieves have stolen two buses used for transporting the national teams. The vehicles, two Toyota Coaster buses, were stolen...

Published:Saturday | August 14, 2021 | 12:08 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Jamaican football player, Ranaldo Biggs, of St Catherine-based club Racing FC, has signed a three-year contract with Slovenian Premier League club, NK Domžale. Biggs will be the second Jamaican to ply his trade for NK Domžale in recent times,...

Published:Thursday | August 12, 2021 | 12:08 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

WITH THE huge depth and talent that Jamaica now has in the men’s 110 metres hurdles event, reigning Olympic champion Hansle Parchment said this will be an added inspiration for him to work a lot harder to secure a spot on the country’s team to next...

Published:Tuesday | August 10, 2021 | 12:09 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Fresh off his gold medal-winning performance in the men’s 110m hurdles at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Hansle Parchment has now set his sights on breaking the world record in the event next year. Parchment, who has a personal best (PB) time of 12.94...

Published:Saturday | August 7, 2021 | 12:06 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

PANAMANIAN JOCKEY Dick Cardenas believes that his mount, BILLY WHIZZ, stands a live shot at winning today’s BetMaker Jamaica Derby at Caymanas Park. The Jason daCosta-trained three-year-old chestnut gelding is coming off an impressive 5 1/4 lengths...

Published:Monday | August 2, 2021 | 12:08 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

After a recent rise in crime in the community, the Fletcher’s Land Police Youth Club (PYC) is using football as a means of social intervention in the central Kingston community. The competition, spearheaded by Unique Plummer, sport coordinator of...

Published:Friday | July 30, 2021 | 12:12 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

OVER TWO million dollars has been added to the undercard purses for next month’s Jamaica Derby and Jamaica Oaks, which are scheduled to be run at Caymanas Park on August 7. “We had best-laid plans, but we had to battle the whole COVID restrictions...

Published:Friday | July 30, 2021 | 12:07 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Chairman of the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC), Clovis Metcalfe, said the First Instance Tribunal delegates are scheduled to begin their investigations into the controversy surrounding the dead heat result in the recent Kingston Cup involving...

Published:Thursday | July 29, 2021 | 12:11 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s upcoming tri-nation series against South Africa and Caribbean rivals Trinidad and Tobago is now in doubt as Netball Jamaica (NJ) is yet to receive COVID-19 approvals from the Government for the hosting of the event. The Gleaner has been...

Published:Wednesday | July 21, 2021 | 12:11 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

National senior women’s football team head coach Hubert Busby Jr says winger Trudi Carter will be up for selection for the Reggae Girlz’s upcoming FIFA World Women’s Cup Qualifiers once she remains fit and is playing competitive club football....

Published:Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 5:51 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Executive Chairman Solomon Sharpe says Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) is negotiating with two United States-based jockeys to feature in the Jamaica Derby and Jamaica Oaks next month. The Jamaica Derby, which will be...

Published:Monday | July 12, 2021 | 12:07 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

SprinTec Track Club head coach Maurice Wilson says he is taking a cautious approach to the preparation of national 200m champion Rasheed Dwyer for the Olympic Games later this month. Wilson told The Gleaner that Dwyer has been battling injuries...

Published:Saturday | July 10, 2021 | 12:08 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Twenty-six matches will be played across 13 venues in the round-robin phase of the Social Development Commission (SDC) Twenty20 Community Cricket competition today. In the feature double-header at the Sir P Oval, Treadlight, Clarendon, Longville...

Published:Friday | July 9, 2021 | 12:12 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Cavalier SC Sporting Director Rudolph Speid has described their new partnership with J. Wray...

Published:Thursday | July 1, 2021 | 12:13 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

With temperatures climbing and a significant water shortage affecting sections of St Catherine, Lorna Gooden, general manager of Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL), said the company is working to address the issue with the...

Published:Tuesday | June 29, 2021 | 12:11 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Striker Oquassa Chong produced a stunning 30-yard free kick to guide Harbour View to a come-from-behind 1-1 draw with Waterhouse in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) at the Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence yesterday. Chong netted his goal...

Published:Saturday | June 26, 2021 | 12:09 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Kingston College’s (KC) Ralford Mullings produced an outstanding performance to win the boys Under-20 discus throw at the National Junior and Senior Championships inside the National Stadium yesterday. The 18-year-old Mullings threw a personal best...

Published:Thursday | June 24, 2021 | 12:13 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

President of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) Christopher Samuda, said the retired sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown, will be remembered as one of the greatest female sprinters of all time, after she announced yesterday that she was hanging up...

Published:Wednesday | June 23, 2021 | 12:07 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Despite suffered a series of injuries while competing in last season’s Israel Basketball Premier League, Jamaican hoopster Samardo Samuels said he has no plans of retiring from the sport any time soon. The 32-year-old veteran power forward, who...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2021 | 1:06 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Following the Jamaica Olympic Association’s (JOA) announcement yesterday that it has cancelled the country’s pre-Olympic Games training camp, Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) official Ian Forbes says that his organisation will...

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