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Arsenal’s Viktor Gyokeres (right) celebrates scoring his side’s third goal in an English Premier League football game against Leeds United with teammate Jurrien Timber in Leeds, England, yesterday.
February 1, 2026

Arsenal open seven-point lead

AP: Arsenal and Liverpool rediscovered that winning feeling in the Premier League yesterday. Arsenal powered seven points clear at the top of the standings after beating Leeds 4-0. Mikel Arteta’s team…
Jamaica’s Assinie Wilson competes in the men’s 400m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan on Monday, September 15, 2025.
February 1, 2026 by Robert Bailey

‘I am just soldiering on’

Despite still experiencing occasional discomfort, national 400m hurdler Assinie Wilson says he remains determined to compete this season after being medically cleared to return to training. Wilson,…
St George’s College track and field team head coach, Gavin James (right), and assistant coach Kevin Pryce have a discussion at the Emmet Park Pavilion recently.
February 1, 2026 by Gregory Bryce

STGC revival inspired by strong coaching partnership

When Gavin James was handed the keys to St George’s College (STGC) track and field programme, he knew there was only one coach he trusted to be his assistant. Now years later, James and his assistant…
Cornwall College coach, Hector Wright.
February 1, 2026

Former national footballer faces cocaine charges

Former national footballer and Cornwall College head coach, Hector Wright, and wife Jodi-Ann Coke-Wright, have been charged with possession of cocaine and dealing in cocaine following a police…
West Indies batsman Shimron Hetmyer (right) plays a shot as South Africa’s wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock watches on during the final T20 International in Johannesburg, South Africa, yesterday. The West Indies won by six runs.
February 1, 2026

West Indies beat South Africa in rain-hit T20 shootout

JOHANNESBURG (AP): The West Indies got a consolation win off South Africa after rain reduced their Twenty20 match to a shootout at the Wanderers yesterday. South Africa won the series 2-1 and the West…
Jamaica Olympic Association President Christopher Samuda
February 1, 2026 by Gregory Bryce

JOA wants Jamaican ‘heatwave’ at Winter Olympics

Christopher Samuda, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), says they are hoping the island can bring the heat to the ice at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games this month.…
Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan kisses the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after defeating Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus to win the women’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, yesterday.
February 1, 2026

Rybakina beats Sabalenka to claim second Grand Slam

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Elena Rybakina finally won her second Grand Slam title with a victory over top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the Australian Open on Saturday, and it was something of a testament…
February 1, 2026 by Raymond Graham

Controversy, drama highlight road to final

Jamaica College bounced back in fine style to defeat St George’s College on the road in their second ISSA Urban Under-19 schoolboy basketball semi-final game on Friday, evening the series at 1-1 and…
Dr Kanchana Coore
February 1, 2026 by Erica Virtue

DEATHBED CONFIDANTE

By the time patients reach the final stretch of their lives, the questions they bring to Dr Kanchana Bandara Coore are rarely medical alone. They are about children who will be left behind, marriages…