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The Government has earmarked some $27 million through the Sport Development Fund (SDF) for the fifth staging of the Jamaica International Invitational Track and Field Meet. The event, which will be held on Saturday, May 1, at the National Stadium, will attract a number of top local and international athletes. The budget for the staging of the meet is $61.9...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, the Honourable Olivia Grange, MP has said that her Ministry is in process of organising a welfare fund and insurance coverage for national sportsmen and sportswomen. Minister Grange was speaking this afternoon (Tuesday) at a news conference to launch the 2010 Jamaica International Invitational track and field meet. "The Government through the SDF...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, the Honourable Olivia Grange, MP has congratulated the "outstanding" Jamaica aquatics team that participated in the 2nd Special Olympics Latin America now on in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The 4x25m relay team of Andrew Bartholomew, Nicholas McBean, Crystal Knight and Racquel Lovindeer won the gold medal in their event. Andrew Bartholomew also won...

On the same weekend the world witnessed the prowess of Jamaican skier Errol Kerr at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in Canada, another Jamaican who was also competing in a winter sport on the other side of Canada. Twenty-three-year-old Damion Robb was showing Canadians that, although Jamaica does not have snow, he can race dogs in the snow and win. Damion...

Jamaica's sports industry could benefit from wider international exposure, following discussions between the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, and officials of U.S. sports network, ESPN International. In an interview with JIS News, Minister Grange expressed enthusiasm that "ESPN is in for a long haul with Jamaica, willing to work with us to build on what...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Honourable Olivia Grange, has pledged support to the Jamaica Volleyball Association in its search for a headquarters. Speaking at a news conference hosted by the Jamaica Volleyball Association in Kingston on Monday night, Minister Grange said: "I give you this commitment that the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture will assist the Jamaica Volleyball...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that plans are in place to develop sporting facilities in South West St. Elizabeth. "A part of the long term development programme for sports in South West St. Elizabeth, is the upgrading of sporting facilities. We have a number of plans on the drawing board to fence fields, to...

Twenty-three year-old freestyle skier, Errol Kerr, who is representing Jamaica at the 2010 Winter Olympics, has given Canadians a little of what he intends to do on the slopes of Vancouver, British Columbia, in February. Mr. Kerr was among 66 skiers who took part in a two-day International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup event in Blue Mountain, Ontario, about a...

World and Olympic 100 and 200 metre champion, Usain Bolt, and World 100 metre hurdles champion, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, were crowned National Sportsman and Sportswoman of 2009 on Thursday, January 14, at the RJR Sports Foundation's 49th awards, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston. Bolt was widely expected to win the Sportsman of the Year award, after his record-shattering exploits...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding told members of the national netball team, the Sunshine Girls, on Friday (January 15), that their greater cause for celebration is not their new home, The Sunshine Chalet, but their success as a team. "It is the efforts that you have made, the courage that you have shown, and the joy that you have...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Honourable Olivia Grange, has said that she was deeply saddened by news of the death of the former Jamaica cricketer Gladstone Robinson. Minister Grange praised Mr. Robinson's versatility. "He excelled in cricket as a schoolboy but also played Manning Cup football for his alma mater, St. Jago High School before going to represent...

TIME Magazine today named ace Jamaican sprinter and world record holder for the 100 and 200 metres, Usain Bolt, among the four runners-up for its prestigious "Person of the Year" 2009. The award went to Ben Bernanke, the 56-year-old chairman of the United States' central bank, the Federal Reserves, who is credited with preventing the economic catastrophe threatened by the...