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Most global stars celebrate their birthdays with the finest champagne and cuisine. For super athlete, Usain Bolt, a bag of sweets and some chicken nuggets did the trick. The star celebrated his 23rd birthday on Friday, August 21, at an exclusive reception at the Berlin, Berlin Hotel in Berlin, Germany. The function, staged by Jamaica's Minister of Youth, Sports and...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, says yesterday's (August 20), record breaking performances of Usain Bolt and Melaine Walker at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany, show that Jamaicans can set the highest standards in the world and attain the highest heights on the grandest stages. Mr. Bolt reduced his own 200 metres...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding has sent the following congratulatory message to the people of Barbados on yesterday's (August 20) victory by hurdler, Ryan Brathwaite, in Berlin, Germany: "The people of Jamaica join with Barbados in recognising the achievement of hurdler, Ryan Brathwaite, who won the first IAAF World Championship gold medal for his homeland in Berlin, on August...

Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding has remarked on the sensational performance of Jamaica's athletes at the World Championships in Berlin, saying: "Our athletes have put Jamaica on top of the world again. Let's transform this performance on the track to every single area of our endeavour and let us work towards making Jamaica the God-blessed paradise that it was meant...

Jamaican sprint queens Shelly-Ann Fraser and Kerron Stewart were special guests at today's launch of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission's public education campaign, at the high-profiled "Champions in Sport for Good" press celebration at the Hotel Ellington in Berlin, Germany. Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange gave a premiere of the music video which spearheads the campaign, entitled...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, says 100-metre Hurdles Champion, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, is very deserving of the gold medal she won at the World Games, in Berlin, today (August 19). She said her performance showed perseverance and determination, and congratulated her on making Jamaica proud. Jamaica's Brigitte Foster-Hylton (R) and Jamaica's Delloreen Ennis-London celebrate after the women's...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding continues to be impressed and awed by the performance of Jamaica's sportswomen at the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) World Championships currently underway in Berlin, Germany. Following on the victory of Gold medal winner, Brigitte Foster-Hylton and the bronze won by Delloreen Ennis-London, the Prime Minister has called on the nation to exalt...

The Government of Jamaica is seeking to establish partnerships with the Federal Republic of Germany in areas of sports development. Jamaica's Sports Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, met with her German counterpart, Dr. Wolfgang Schauble, Tuesday (August 18), in Berlin, to discuss possible areas of co-operation between both countries. Miss Grange paid a courtesy call on Dr. Schauble, the Minister of...

World Championships silver medallist Keron Stewart (centre) with Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange and Minister of Tourism Hon. Edmund Bartlett at the Athletes' Village at the Berlin Berlin Hotel in Germany today, August 18th, 2009. Stewart placed second in the 100 Metres last night equalling her personal best time of 10.75 seconds. She was beaten by...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding today (August 17), hailed the victory of Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser and the silver medal run of Kerron Stewart, in the finals of the women's 100-metre race, at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany. The Prime Minister said their performances made it another historic day for Jamaica. In a message just minutes after...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, has hailed Jamaica's female sprinters, as the nation took Gold and Silver in the women's 100 metres at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, at the Olympic Stadium, in Berlin, Germany today (Aug. 17). She described the performances of World Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser and runner-up Kerron Stewart as awesome and...

President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Mr Lamine Diack, says he is happy that he intervened in the impasse between the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) and the Maximum Speed and Velocity Track Club (MVP), which might have prevented several of Jamaica's top athletes from performing at the current World Championships in Athletics, in Berlin, Germany. Mr....