Portmore United, Boys' Town and Maverley-Hughenden do not have the luxury of hosting games at their home grounds, and each of the teams has suffered in one way or another because of this.Craig Walters, president of Maverley-Hughenden, said its field...
Last August, the decision was taken to include surfing as an Olympic sport, adding it to the 2022 Games in Tokyo, Japan.According to Jamaica Surfing Association President Billy Wilmot, his association will push the International Olympic Committee (...
Surfing is alive and well, says Jamaica Surfing Association president Billy Wilmot, when recently quizzed on the present status of the sport locally.Wilmot told The Gleaner that over the last year the increase in the number of youngsters gravitating...
Published:Wednesday | February 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
Embattled INSPORTS administrative director Ian Andrews has accused the agency's board of directors of victimising him for adhering to the organisation's guidelines and protocols and has called on Sports Minister Olivia Grange to intervene after he...
Published:Wednesday | February 8, 2017 | 1:14 PMLivingston Scott
Two new additions to Reggae Boyz squad..Kingston College and Harbour View midfielder Fabian Grant and Portland Timbers' midfielder Andre Lewis both get their first call up to the senior Reggae Boyz squad which take on Central American side Honduras...
Boys' Town coach Andrew Price believes 19 year-old players Shamar Nicholson and Jourdaine Fletcher, will benefit from heightened confidence after their recent Reggae Boyz debuts.Price, who warned that both players should see this as a stepping stone...
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has announced that the National Under-17 men's football team will be based in a three-month residential camp until they depart for the CONCACAF final-round qualifiers in April.For some time, head coach Andrew...
A release from the Ministry of Culture, Entertainment, Gender and Sports said the Lloyd Pommells-led board of directors of the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) has suspended Ian Andrews, its administrative director, albeit with pay, pending an...
St Catherine Cricket Club's Oraine Williams believes he is getting closer to a West Indies call-up, following his 146 runs against Kingston Cricket Club on Saturday.The knock was crucial as St Catherine CC registered their third successive hold on...
Table tennis president, Godfrey Lothian, who was returned unopposed at the Table Tennis Jamaica council elections on Tuesday, says there will be a motion to extend each administrative term from three to four years when the annual general meeting (...
Published:Wednesday | February 1, 2017 | 2:36 PMLivingston Scott
The Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) player development programme, will have a new twist this year, after the local beer giant's partnership with Nike.The American sports apparel company will send a team to conduct advance fitness and structured...
West Indies cricketer Andre Russell left the Jamaica Conference Centre yesterday furious and disappointed after he was handed a one-year ban by a three-man independent disciplinary panel for a whereabouts violation in 2015.The all-rounder looked...
West Indies all rounder Andre Russell will know his fate this morning when the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel meet at the Jamaica Conference Centre at 10.00 a.m., to pass a decision in the matter of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission's (...
Over a year ago, Montego Bay United became the first local football club to stream its games live via YouTube, and club president Orville Powell says that it is time for other clubs to do the same if they are serious about development and exposing...
Jamaican female sprinter and bobsleigher, Carrie Russell, dreams of becoming the nation's first medallist at both the winter and summer Olympic Games following Jamaica's historic performance at the North American Cup Bobsled Championship in Lake...
In 2013, the People's National Party-led government of the time announced that GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sport would assume responsibility for the neglected Sligoville Stadium, a gift from the Chinese government, which was...
The Red Stripe Premier League's top goalscorer 19-year-old Shamar Nicholson of Boys' Town and 2016 schoolboy sensation, Jourdaine Fletcher of Cornwall College and Montego Bay United, head the list of nine local-based players included in the Reggae...
Published:Thursday | January 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott
Coach Ludlow Barker says Calabar High are now setting their sights on lifting a third consecutive all island title after beating Camperdown High, in game three of the ISSA Southern Conference schools basketball final at G.C. Foster on...
Jamaica's top equestrian for 2016 and the continuous face of Jamaica showjumping, Julian Hyde, says his focus for this year will be coaching and bringing new talent to the fore in an effort to give back to the sport.However, he still holds ambitions...
Netball Jamaica president, Dr Paula Daley-Morris, says she has no preference as it relates to a male or female coach noting that the best candidate will be selected for the senior Sunshine Girls head coaching job.Speaking on the Girls' Sports Club...
Even though most schools have implemented rules and regulations to curb the bleaching phenomenon such as banning offending student-athletes from school representation, it is still a problem they have to deal with continuously.The extend of bleaching...
The massive and intense media attention schoolboy football has garnered recently has highlighted many aspiring young, talented players and has turned many into overnight stars.However, these regularly televised schoolboy football matches have...
Tyreke Sutherland and Chrissette Miller both attend the same prominent Corporate Area high school. They are both ardent 'bleachers' who represent the school in sports - Sutherland in football, with Miller wearing the colours on the netball court....
Competitions Director at the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) George Forbes notes that the organisation does not have a position on student-athletes bleaching their skin and insists that it is the schools who have to address the...
Table Tennis Jamaica President Godfrey Lothian wants to make Jamaica into what he describes as a "table tennis nation", and he expects highly regarded Japanese coach Satoshi Takashima to help make this dream possible.Lothian told The Gleaner that...
