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Resist the urge to use the results of last Saturday's Gibson Relays to predict the winners of Boys and Girls' Championships. The range of events contested at those relays is too limited for that. Gibson did, however, give one clear signal: Champs will once again be a festival of sprinting.

Jamalco won the mid-season final of the Captain's Bakery & Grill Clarendon Major League, easily defeating Treadlight 3-0 at Wembley Sports and Excellence Centre last weekend. They collected a cash prize of $50,000.

Jamaica were firmly in charge at the end of the first day of their WICB Four-day tournament encounter against Guyana at Sabina Park.

A defiant century stand between Lendl Simmons and captain Dwayne Bravo rescued a failing West Indies innings and set the platform for a 15-run win over England in the first One Day International (ODI) here yesterday.

ALYSSA Mullings is the reigning national senior squash champion at the tender age of 15. She became one of the youngest to win the title last year and is a star in the making.

I am a crew member affiliated with a major cruise line. I work on a ship that docks every two weeks in the port of Falmouth. Being a Jamaican, I recently took the opportunity to offload some personal items.

The lifting of visa restrictions for Chinese tourists, which the Government announced earlier this week, has been wholeheartedly endorsed by the Opposition. This is something both sides of the aisle have agreed is good for Jamaica.

While I embrace Minister Phillip Paulwell's support for the police as an example of a joint effort in thwarting crime, I, however, object to the referencing of himself as a 'police informer'.

I was appalled on reading the answer to a question posed to child psychologist Dr Orlean Brown-Earle in The Gleaner of February 25, 2014, Page D10.