St Catherine High were crowned the first champions of the First Half Only 45 Football Extravaganza at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on Saturday night. The Spanish Town-based school blanked Manchester High 3-0 in the final. In a nail-biting sudden...
The JamRockers Basketball Classics for under-17 players is underway at the Montego Bay Community College. Two coaches, Chuck Henry, head coach for Team Takeover from Washington DC, and Mark Francis, coach of Phase 1 Academy International, are...
The P.H.A.S.E 1 Academy JamRockers Basketball Classic, a competition for under-17 players, will tip off today at the Montego Bay Community College. The competition, which is being held for the first time, will see six teams participating over...
Western Bureau: At 11 years old, Desandra Clarke, who was the highest-ranked Primary Exit Profile (PEP) student in western Jamaica for the 2023-2024 academic year, is full of big dreams and lofty ambitions. The self-assured youngster, who wants to...
National sprinter Kemba Nelson says she is ready to give 100 per cent after she was added to the Paris Olympics women’s 4x100 metres pool on Thursday. The team management in Paris was forced to bring in reinforcements after Shericka Jackson pulled...
NEW HEAD coach of Montego Bay United FC (MBU), Argentinian Rodolfo Zapata, believes fresh ideas, tied to his experience can take the club to the next level. The team recently announced Zapata as the new head coach after parting ways with Brazilian...
The National Commercial Bank (NCB) recently hosted a special Father’s Day Cocktail event at Reading Heights in St James in a heartwarming celebration of fatherhood that marked the culmination of a month-long tribute to fathers and father figures...
Already among the top achievers in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination, Whitter’s Institute graduates have been reminded that they are the architects of the future. The graduating class of 21 students basked in their accolades during the...
Corinaldi Avenue Primary School, for the 18th consecutive year, emerged champions of the 2024 St James Municipal Under-12 Netball Competition at the Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club on Thursday. In the much-anticipated final, Corinaldi defeated...
A mangled minibus, half-eaten food scattered on the ground, and a tree bent from the force of the impact painted a grim picture in the aftermath of the tragic accident that claimed one life along the Font Hill main road in St Elizabeth early...
The dead and dearly departed are in good hands. This according to licensed funeral director Christina Millwood-Nicholson. The 31-year-old Millwood-Nicholson, who is from Manchester and now resides in New York, owns Unique Mortuary Supplies, located...
Yoni Epstein, chairman and CEO of itel, became the 13th laureate from Jamaica to receive the Anthony N. Sabga prestigious Caribbean Excellence Award last weekend. The annual event was held at Hilton Barbados Hotel in Barbados recently. Epstein won...
WHILE NEIDER dos Santos was ready to come back to Montego Bay United Football Club (MBU) for preseason, the team had other plans and is currently in the process of announcing a replacement. In a Gleaner interview with Dos Santos, he said the...
The St James Municipal Corporation are the new title sponsors of the St James Primary Schools Netball under-12 competition. The launch for this year’s competition took place at the Montego Bay Boys and Girls’ Club in Montego Bay yesterday. The...
‘Same mission, bolder vision … Our look might have changed, but our heart hasn’t’ was the watchword of the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run’s organising committee as they unveiled a new logo to redefine the annual run/walk event’s brand. The new logo’s...
Fabian Kelvin, a man associated with the Irwin High School’s football team and listed on match cards as manager, will have his case of grievous sexual assault against a student, heard in the St James Parish Court on May 21. Kelvin, who sources at...
Boxing may be viewed by some people as a barbaric sport, but for Dr Lola Cunningham it can be a helpful tool to curb crime and violence among students and as an alternative to work off their pent-up anger if it is introduced in schools. Cunningham...
PATIENCE IS running out for track and field interests with uncertainty surrounding whether or not the Montego Bay Sports Complex will be ready for Western Relays in 2025. Speaking with The Gleaner, Ray Harvey, chairman of Western Relays organising...
WESTERN BUREAU: WHEN 17-YEAR-OLD Rihanna Golding graduated from Hanover’s Hopewell High School in July 2023, she was upbeat to pursue her dream of doing culinary arts. However, those thought were soon set aside, and replaced with worry when her...
FIRST-TIME medallists at the annual ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), Shanoya Douglas, Johan-Ramaldo Smythe and Osmond Holt were honoured by Muschett High during a parade in Wakefield Square in Trelawny yesterday...
NEWLY RE-ELECTED Jamaica Football Federation President, Michael Ricketts, says his new administration is ready to get the ball rolling now that the long-awaited presidential poll is over. Ricketts, who defeated challenger Raymond Anderson 39...
“Polo is a family sport for us … (and) we came out victorious” said an overwhelmed Freddie Farquharson of West Indies Petroleum (WIP) team, following their victory in the 2024 Willie deLisser (Polo) Cup final on Saturday. Young Farquharson, who was...
West Indies Petroleum (WIP) and Chukka will meet in the final in the 2024 Willie deLisser Cup today at the St Ann Polo Club in Drax Hall in St Ann. Match time is 4 p.m. Thursday’s thrilling semifinal game between Insurance Company of The West...
While the P.H.A.S.E 1 Academy Basketball programme gives young Jamaican basketballers exposure to global competitions, CEO Wayne Dawkins believes enough basketball is not being played locally, and the athletes are at a disadvantage with regard to...
HEAD COACH of Muschett High School’s track and field team, Garth Smythe, is revelling in his rise to being one of the top junior coaches in Jamaica and though there have been calls for him to be part of the country’s national setup, he isn’t...
