Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has commissioned a new synthetic track at Calabar High School noting that it is the first all weather, synthetic running track at a high school in Jamaica and anywhere in the English Speaking Caribbean. The official opening ceremony took place on Friday, January 22, 2016 at the Calabar High School located at Red Hills Road...

Minister with responsibility for Sports, Hon. Natalie Neita Headley, is commending private sector contribution to the development of sports in Jamaica. She noted that the private sector support not only includes sponsorship of global stars, but programmes that are geared towards developing young athletes. Mrs. Neita Headley was speaking at the launch of the Digicel Grand Prix Athletic Championship on...

Insurance Companies, Guardian Life and Allied Insurance Brokers, have been selected as the providers of group health, life and personal accident insurance for over 1,000 of the nation’s athletes who represent the country in various sporting disciplines. This follows Cabinet’s approval of the Jamaica Athlete Insurance Plan (JAIP) and the selection of the companies as the providers. Speaking at a...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says Jamaicans and World and Olympic sprint champions Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continue to showcase their dominance on and off the track. The athletes were recently crowned Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year at the second annual Caribbean Sports Awards. In congratulating Ambassadors Bolt and Fraser-Pryce, Prime Minister Simpson Miller said she was proud...

Gymnast Reiss Beckford is aiming to make history by becoming the first ever Jamaican gymnast to compete in the Olympics. Reiss, who recently represented Jamaica at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, paid a courtesy visit to the Jamaican High Commission in London on Tuesday, November 24. The visit was a part of his campaign to garner the support...

The Hon. Natalie Neita Headley, Minister with Responsibility for Sport in the Office of the Prime Minister has expressed gratitude to the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) for today launching its revised Athletes’ Development Fund which will allow a total of eighty four (84) eligible national athletes to receive monthly stipends of J$60,000 (Tier 1) or J$30,000 (Tier 2). “There...

World Championships 400-metre relay gold medallist, Novlene Williams Mills, is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Courtney Walsh Award for Excellence in Sports. The 400-metre specialist was chosen from a field of four shortlisted nominees, including: Chess Champion, Warren Elliot; National Netball Player, Sasher-Gaye Henry; and National Football Player, Rodolph Austin. The athlete, who hails from Gravel Hill, in St....

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, is encouraging partnership in order to better position Jamaica to tap into the multi-billion global sports industry. She noted that sports entrepreneurship is an area that is ripe for development and which could generate significant earnings and other benefits for the economy. The Prime Minister underscored these points in a speech read...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has welcomed the reconstruction of the running track at the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport in Angels, St. Catherine, which was undertaken at a cost of approximately $171 million by German manufacturer, BSW Regupol. Mrs. Simpson Miller also hailed the college’s contribution to the training of world class Jamaican...