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Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

The waves of Copa Beach, Bull Bay, will be the stage for Jamaica’s surfing elite today as the Jamaica Surfing Association (JSA) hosts the highly anticipated 2025 National Surfing Championships. JSA President Inilek Wilmot confirmed the event as the...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

MANY-TIME champions Cornwall College enter today’s ISSA daCosta Cup quarterfinal clash with everything to prove, when they brace for a battle against perennial giants Glenmuir High at Cornwall’s playing field at 3 p.m. With their season hanging by...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

High school athletes preparing for the 2026 track and field season will get an early look at their form before the Christmas break as they line up at today’s 22nd staging of the Wesley Powell Benjamin Track and Field Meet, set for Excelsior High...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:10 AM

KINGSTON: The 2025 staging of the Mayberry Gymnastics Classics and National Trials took place November 29-30 at the Jamaica College Auditorium, bringing together a record field of junior and senior gymnasts from across the island. Over two days...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:10 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Zaheim Clarke was the man of the moment for St Andrew Technical High (STATHS) as his late strike secured their place in the semifinals of the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup after a 1-0 win over Vauxhall High yesterday at the Waterhouse Mini Stadium. The win...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Ocho Rios High advanced to the ISSA Ben Francis KO with a 1-0 win over Old Harbour High at Drax Hall Sports Complex yesterday. With round one completed, the result means Ocho Rios will advance to the quarterfinals to join Garvey Maceo High, Manning...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

CALABAR HIGH were the biggest winners in the ISSA urban under-19 schoolboys basketball competition, as the Red Hills Road-based school dismissed St Catherine High 77-24. Keneil Brown, with 23 points, led the way for the victors. Tivoli High, St...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:09 AM

When the Jamaica Boxing Association sanctioned Wray...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:09 AM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (CMC): West Indies Test captain, Roston Chase has expressed his displeasure with his side’s woeful batting performance after they slumped to a nine-wicket defeat against New Zealand inside three days in the second Test here...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:09 AM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (CMC): Fast-bowler Jacob Duffy ripped through the West Indies’ fragile batting line-up with a second consecutive five-wicket haul to bowl New Zealand to a comprehensive nine-wicket victory inside three days in the second...

Published:Saturday | December 13, 2025 | 12:09 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Head coach of the national senior netball team, Sasher-Gaye Henry, says the Sunshine Girls are very upbeat and confident ahead of today’s opening match in the two-match Horizon Vitality Series in London, England. The game will be played at the...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED States-bred COMMANDER Z returns off a three-month break, without blinkers, perfectly drawn for a shot at Sunday’s Charles Hussey Trophy out the straight course. A four-year-old colt, COMMANDER Z won on debut, 59.2 at five furlongs straight...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

There were no surprises in Wednesday’s ISSA rural schoolgirls netball quarterfinals at the GC Foster College Indoor Court as all seeded teams booked their spots in today’s semi-finals at the same venue. Double defending champions Holmwood Technical...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:08 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

In a story of resilience, Jamaica’s women’s cricket team etched its name in history books, overcoming a mountain of adversity to clinch the inaugural cricket title at the Bolivarian Games with a commanding six-wicket victory over Trinidad and...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:08 AM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (CMC): Jacob Duffy and Michael Rae grabbed two late wickets to put New Zealand in firm control of the second Test after a courageous effort by the West Indies’ bowlers brought them back into contention on Thursday’s second...

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

Nearly two months after the passage of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, the devastation continues to weigh heavily on the athletes of Holland High School and their head coach Garth Smythe. Smythe said that many students are still struggling to...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:08 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Grand Slam Track (GST), the innovative brainchild of US Olympian Michael Johnson, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, following a premature end to its inaugural season, loss of a key investor, and millions of dollars owed to athletes and vendors....

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:06 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

With Eltham High already in the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup semifinals, and Calabar High out of contention, the race for the remaining qualifying spot in Group B will be decided today when St Andrew Technical High (STATHS) and Vauxhall High meet at the...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:06 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer -

Caribbean Cup champions Mount Pleasant Academy drubbed Tivoli Gardens FC 5-0 in a commanding performance during their Jamaica Premier League (JPL) game at Drax Hall Sports Complex yesterday. In front of an energetic crowd, Mount Pleasant's Daniel...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 12:28 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Raddesh Roman opting for ZULU WARRIOR after two near misses astride the four-year-old, bypassing United States-bred stablemate, SHOOTING STAR, aboard whom he won back-to-back races, gives more than an insight into the leading rider’s thoughts for...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 12:28 AM

Dethroned ISSA/WATA Manning Cup champions Kingston College (KC) waltzed into the quarter-finals of the Walker Cup knockout competition with a 4-1 come-from-behind victory over St Jago High at the Stadium East field yesterday. KC were led to victory...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 12:26 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Kemps Hill continued their giant-killing role in this year’s ISSA daCosta Cup football competition, taking down Cornwall College 3-1 in their Group A quarter-final encounter yesterday at Glenmuir. Coming off a 2-3 defeat a few days earlier to...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 12:21 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

A cricket firestorm from an administrative standpoint is said to be brewing, as former Jamaica Cricket Association President Wilford ‘Billy’ Heaven has issued a forceful demand to Cricket West Indies, calling for an immediate Extraordinary Annual...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 12:19 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

President of Netball Jamaica Karen Rosen-Baugh says the Sunshine Girls have settled comfortably into their training base in London and are fully focused on securing a series win against hosts England Roses this weekend. The highly anticipated two-...

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2025 | 12:19 AM

New champions will be crowned in the ISSA Urban Senior Schoolgirl Netball Competition following quarter-final action on Tuesday at the Leila Robinson Courts, as defending champions St Catherine High were sent packing by Wolmer’s Girls’. The St John...

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