Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 4:58 PMShayne Fairman
Reigning national shotgun champion Christian Sasso signalled his return to championship form ahead of next month's National Skeet Championships by shooting an excellent 91 to capture last Sunday's Proven Wealth-sponsored Father's Day Skeet Challenge...
Published:Tuesday | June 21, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
After winning her first NCB Capital Markets Junior Sporting Clays girls 'B' class 50 birds title, Savannah Miller has now set her sights on making the 'A' class and Super Six rounds of competition soon.Miller, a seventh grader at St Andrew High...
Published:Monday | June 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
First-timers Ministry of Education, Youth and Information staged a lesson of sorts in netball, overcoming many-time champions Scotia Group Jamaica Limited 8-6 in the Buiness House Netball Association (BHNA) Open Rally at the Leila Robinson Courts at...
Published:Sunday | June 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
St Hugh's Prep cricketer Jordan Johnson, whose superb batting helped his school to a quarter-final debut in their first year as participants in the Scotiabank Prep School Cricket competition, was invited to the national Under-15 trials.Having...
Published:Sunday | June 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
As things heat up for the nation's senior athletes in track and field, with Rio 2016 just around the corner, so too is the athletics team at St George's College.With newly appointed coach Orville Byfield about to take lead of the team, much is...
Published:Friday | June 17, 2016 | 7:26 PMShayne Fairman
Telecommunications giants FLOW rolled out an exciting and colourful 50-day Rio Olympics countdown celebration on Friday evening at Mandela Park in Half-Way Tree.According to FLOW's vice-president of marketing and products, Carlo Redwood, his company...
Published:Monday | June 13, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
With a small contingent of only eight female shooters competing at the recent National Commercial Bank (NCB) Capital Markets Junior Sporting Clays, Hillel Academy standout Leah Azan easily took the Girls A Class courtesy of 76 of 100 birds at the...
Published:Monday | June 13, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Long-serving Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) president Michael Fennell has issued a call for Jamaicans to, on June 25, observe, celebrate and participate in the symbolic Olympic Day Run.Olympic Day is slated for Thursday June 23 globally, but the...
Published:Tuesday | June 14, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Caribbean Fashionweek 2016, which will be held at various locations across Kingston, kicks off this week and a young Chinese Jamaican, Alyssa Simone, is one of the brilliant designers who will get an opportunity to showcase her collection at the...
Published:Sunday | June 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Veteran Immaculate Conception Prep School coach Anthony Thomas, whose team retained the 2016 Milo Prep and Primary Schools Swimming Championships title last Saturday at the National Aquatics Centre, credits the school's feeder programme for their...
Published:Saturday | June 11, 2016 | 12:24 PMShayne Fairman
Brandon Reid knew his title defence "was never gonna be easy", but the two-time National Commercial Bank (NCB) Capital Markets Junior Sporting Clays champion flew back to the island and made a successful defence of his title last Sunday.With much...
Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Minister of Sport Olivia 'Babsy' Grange has labelled Jamaica's athletes to the upcoming summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil not just ambassadors, but the "team to beat" while lauding local sponsors for investing in the upcoming National Senior...
Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 6:53 PMShayne Fairman
Minister of Sports, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, said despite the government not having direct involvement, she is maintaining “close watch” on doping developments regarding a local runner named among 31 athletes with positive...
Published:Sunday | June 5, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Having begun a decades-long career passionately reporting on local motorsport, it was only fitting that journalist Glenroy Wayne Sinclair received emotional tributes at the Jamaica Karting Association Meet No. 4, held at the Palisadoes Go-Kart Track...
Published:Saturday | June 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Top junior marksman Brandon Reid will be in the spotlight today as he seeks to stave off the challenge of some of Jamaica's most talented young shooters and defend his NCB Capital Markets Junior Sporting Clays title at the Jamaica Skeet Club's...
Published:Saturday | June 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Many-time boys' and girls' champions, Wolmer's Boys and Immaculate Conception Prep, proved a class ahead as both easily retained their respective 2016 Milo Prep and Primary Schools Swimming Championships crowns at the National Aquatic Centre...
Published:Thursday | June 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
The 19th annual Milo Prep/Primary School Swimming Championships gets under way at the National Aquatics Centre today at 8:30 a.m.With main sponsors NestlÈ celebrating 150 years worldwide and 75 years in Jamaica, the swim championships will be the...
Published:Wednesday | June 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Confident in his ability to outshine main 100m challengers Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell, sprint megastar Usain Bolt is promising local track and field fans an exciting show of speed at the Racers Track Club Grand Prix, which is set for Saturday,...
Published:Tuesday | May 31, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Ahead of defending his coveted 100m title at this summer's Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt says he is not concerned with arch-rival Justin Gatlin.Instead, the Jamaican considers the American, whom...
Published:Sunday | May 29, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Retired Olympian, Dennis Blake says he is hoping to use his book, Dennis Blake's Memoir: An Olympian's Hidden Secrets, to help young athletes, their parents, coaches and stakeholders of...
Published:Friday | May 27, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Sandra Davis, a "proud" St Hugh's past student fondly known as 'Swans', is inviting golfers, golfing enthusiasts and charitable Jamaicans to support today's teeing off of the Swans Charitable Golf Tournament at the Constant Spring Golf Club in St...
Published:Thursday | May 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Nestle/Milo will serve up a whopping $750,000 sponsorship and other incentives at the 19th renewal of an eagerly anticipated Milo Prep/Primary Schools Swimming Championships slated for June 3- 4, at the National Aquatics Centre.The event was...
Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Lennox Graham, who was named the Atlantic Region Women's Track and Field Coach of the Year in the United States on Monday, says he has achieved his "short, medium and long-term goals" with that coveted award, while thanking God for what he called a...
Published:Thursday | May 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
The Gas Pro Open Junior Tennis Championships, which will feature more than 45 young tennis players, will be played tomorrow and Sunday at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston.There will be competition in boys' and girls' 10 and under, 12 and under, 14...
Published:Tuesday | May 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Kingston College's fourth annual road race, the FLOW/PUMA Fortis 5K, slated for Sunday May 22, is being staged to raise much-needed funds to benefit students as well as provide worthwhile contributions to society, including another donation to the...
