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Jamaicans are big on sports and are known across the globe for their prowess in a number of disciplines, including track and field, cricket, football and netball. And, with the construction of the country’s first internationally standardised baseball diamond at the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sports, in St. Catherine, underway, the government is hoping to add baseball...

Minister with responsibility for Sports, Hon. Natalie Neita-Headley, says it is her vision that sports will become a major income earner for the country, and “will be the glue that binds us together as a people." She added that in this 50th year of Independence, Jamaicans must be prepared, as a nation, to move the development of sports to reflect...

KINGSTON — Late President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Howard Aris, was laid to rest Tuesday, November 22,following a funeral service at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston. In her tribute to the late sports administrator, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon Olivia "Babsy" Grange, said that he will be greatly missed, but not forgotten. "Howard's...

KINGSTON — The sentiments expressed by many persons, following the sudden and untimely passing of sports administrator, Howard Aris, have eclipsed the perception that political activism and unbiased national service are incompatible.  With over 45 years experience in general management and administration, with specialised expertise in sports development - planning, training, administration and physical therapy - the spirit of caring...

KINGSTON — Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture (MYSC), the Hon Olivia "Babsy" Grange, says that the special report of the Auditor General’s Department on management weaknesses at the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS), is an outcome of efforts by her ministry to deal with the issues. “I made a statement recently that I had ‘inherited a mess’ when I came...

The Minister of Youth Sports and Culture, the Hon. Olivia Grange, MP has congratulated Jamaica's Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake on winning IAAF awards for their performances during the year. Bolt has been named the 2011 Male World Athlete of the Year.  It’s the third consecutive year that he was winning the award. Minister Grange said "Bolt deserved to win...

KINGSTON — Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, says that 16 schoolboys on the eight teams in the quarter-finals of the Social Development Commission's (SDC) National Twenty20 Community Cricket competition will get scholarships in 2012. Speaking at the competition’s awards ceremony on Wednesday (November 9) at the Knutsford Court Hotel, Kingston, Miss Grange said that the scholarships,...

KINGSTON — Attorney General, Ransford Braham, says that while Jamaica has embraced an aggressive and consistent anti-doping approach, rapid developments in sports medicine and technology are a threat to those efforts. "The fast pace of these developments have threatened to outpace anti-doping testing regimes," Mr. Braham warned, in an address at the launch of the University of the West Indies...

KINGSTON — Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, says the sport of golf has the potential to enhance Jamaica's reputation as a top class sports destination. Speaking at the media launch of this year's 48th staging of the Jamaica Golf Association's (JGA) Jamaica Open tournament, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, on November 1, Ms. Grange...

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...