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KINGSTON — Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, says the Government is committed to investing in sports as a key part of the process of national building. She said that the administration recognises the full value of sports in boosting economic activity, bringing people together, encouraging a healthy lifestyle, raising national and international profile, and inculcating positive...

KINGSTON — President of the University of Technology (UTech), Professor Errol Morrison, says that student athletes who train with the institution’s MVP Track and Field Club will be given scholarships equivalent to 50 per cent of their tuition fees. He noted that the scholarships, which start next semester, will be offered “right across the board”, irrespective of the type of...

The popular and powerful medium of sport is proving to be very valuable to the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), as the agency continues to promote Vision 2030 Jamaica, the country’s National Development Plan. Through the 2011 National 20/20 Community Cricket Competition, organised by the Social Development Commission (SDC), the agency was successful in spreading the tenets of the plan...

KINGSTON — Jamaica’s Prime Minister, the Hon Bruce Golding, has joined other top level CARICOM leaders in putting forward proposals to address the current state of West Indies cricket. Mr. Golding is in Trinidad and Tobago attending the Seventeenth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Cricket (PMSC). According to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Mr. Golding held critical and...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica and has the honour to request the latter's kind assistance in transmitting the following congratulatory message from the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque to the Jamaican Athletics Team on their sterling performance at the 2011 International Association of...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has congratulated the Jamaican team on the spectacular and outstanding performance at the just concluded IAAF world championships in Daegu, South Korea. The Prime Minister said  a more fitting climax to the Games could not have been scripted as  our men's 4X 100 metres relay team won the Gold Medal setting a new world  record, following...

DAEGU, South Korea, September 4, 2011 - The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Olivia Grange, MP has congratulated the Jamaican men's 4x100 metres team on their "amazing world record" run at the IAAF World Championships in South Korea. The team of Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt set a new world record of 37.04 seconds in...

DAEGU, South Korea — The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Olivia Grange, MP has congratulated Jamaica's Usain Bolt on winning the men's 200 metres at the IAAF World Championships in South Korea. Minister Grange said Bolt's victory, in a world leading time, was "a fine victory by an exceptional athlete." "Bolt has delivered again.  He ran a very fine...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Olivia Grange, MP has congratulated Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown on winning the women's 200 metres at the IAAF World Championships in South Korea. Minister Grange said: “Veronica Campbell-Brown has been one of the best sprinters the world has seen and she demonstrated just how good she is tonight.  She fought for this victory, she...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange has congratulated Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown on winning the silver medal in the women's 100 metres at the IAAF World Championships in South Korea. Minister Grange said Campbell-Brown (10.97) made a "courageous run" to finish second in the race won by the American Carmelita Jeter (10.90). "Veronica is a true fighter,...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, has congratulated Jamaica's Yohan Blake on winning the men's 100 metres at the IAAF World Championships in South Korea. The Minister also expressed sympathy with Usain Bolt who was disqualified from the final for a false-start. Minister Grange said: "On behalf of the Government and people of Jamaica, I congratulate...

KINGSTON — The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, MP has expressed sadness to news that Jamaica's Asafa Powell has been forced to withdraw from the 100 metres at the IAAF World Championships in South Korea because of injury. Minister Grange said she shared Powell's disappointment at having to withdraw. Minister Grange said: “He has worked so...