Sports

Karen Healy-Silcott, player/coach on the national lacrosse team, says her role is difficult but she is determined to help to develop the sport in Jamaica. Born in the United States to a Jamaican mother and former player at the Syracuse University...

The National Stadium will be buzzing with excitement today and tomorrow as the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) /Sagicor National Athletics Championships makes a comeback after a two-year pause because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The track and...

Jamaican triple jumper Sabina Allen has been handed a four-year ban by an independent arbitrator for testing positive for two prohibited substances. Allen, 27, who lives and trains in the United States, tested positive for phentermine and di-...

ST JOHN’s, Antigua (CMC): In-form left-hander Tagenarine Chanderpaul will have another chance to impress selectors after being named in the Cricket West Indies President’s XI to face touring Bangladesh here today. The 26-year-old son of Test legend...

FORMER Kingston College hurdler/long jumper Wayne Pinnock closed out a National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) long jump double for the University of Tennessee after winning the event on Wednesday’s opening day of competition for male...

The Sol Rally Barbados has not been kind to Jamaican driver Jeffrey Panton and co-driver Mike Fennell Jr in recent years as for the second time in the past three outings, Panton failed to complete the two-day event. Back in 2019, Panton suffered a...

The first win of the 2022 Diamond League season was also a declaration of a 200 metres World title challenge for Tokyo Olympics 100 metres bronze medallist Shericka Jackson. In a loaded field that included the double sprint champion from the Tokyo...

MINISTER OF sports, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, in her Sectoral Debate presentation on Wednesday, praised the Jamaica Anti-doping Commission (JADCO) for its recent strides in anti-doping practices and adherence. But she chastised the commission for...

TOKYO DOUBLE-OLYMPIC sprint champion Elaine Thompson Herah will be hoping to continue having an unbeaten season today when she competes in the women’s 200 metres at the Stadio Olimpico Stadium in the Rome Golden Gala, where she is one of 10...

FORMER SUNSHINE Girls goal shooter Jodi-ann Ffrench-Kentish has established Jamaica’s first netball academy, saying that the development of the sport was paramount for the new organisation. She said the Future Netballers Academy is a non-profit...

MINIATURE MAN has worked himself back into competitive shape, two runs off a 10-month lay-up, looking especially sharp at exercise last Sunday morning in preparation for Saturday’s non-restricted overnight allowance at a mile for the Alsafra Trophy...

IN AN effort to improve the local racing product in Jamaica, Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) is scheduled to import more than 20 horses from the United States next month to compete against the local thoroughbreds....