RATIFIED - IAAF certifies Bolt's 100-metre world record

MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP): Usain Bolt’s 100-metre world record was ratified yesterday by the Inter-national Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The Jamaican sprinter ran the 100 in 9.72 seconds on May 31 in New York, breaking Asafa Powell’s…

Tiger on the mend

AKRON, Ohio (AP): PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem saw Tiger Woods for the first time since his season-ending surgery and reported Sunday that the No. 1-ranked golfer was his usual self, except for being about 10 pounds lighter and walking with a slight limp…

Local 'ballers surrender lead - Draw hands Haiti group honours

BROOKLYN, New York (CMC): In what has been described as their best display this season, Haiti held defending champions Jamaica to a 2-2 draw Sunday to win Zone I of the New York Caribbean Football Cup. Two goals down half hour into the final match of Sunday’s triple header…

Wilmot, Phillips emerge overall champions

Following the third and final event of the Jamaica Surfing Associations (JSA) 2008 National Junior Surfing Championship Series, Ivah Wilmot, on 2,670 points and Ackeam Phillips (2,860), were crowned national under-16 and Under-18 champions…

Jamaica move into quarters

JUVANE Benjamin scored nine minutes from time to hand Jamaica’s Under-17s a crucial 1-0 win over the Dominican Republic, in a Group E Caribbean Football Union Youth Cup match, at Fatima College in Trinidad and Tobago, yesterday…

British Airways close to deal with American Airlines

British Airways PLC, which is already in talks with Spain’s Iberia SA over a merger, said Monday it hopes to seal an alliance with its United States partner American Airlines within weeks. BA spokesman Euan Fordyce said that the carrier expected final…

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Shipping industry has vital role in Jamaica's development plan

The shipping industry is to play a vital role in Vision 2030, a plan by the Government to make Jamaica a developed country by that year. The vision is to develop Jamaica as the place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business…

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Big Oil's biggest quarter ever, profits top US$51b

Oil giants Chevron Corp and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped US$50 billion in combined profit for the first time. While the profits of unparalleled size…

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Kicking off his Sandals

Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart is considered, by some, to be Jamaica’s most powerful man. The one-time air conditioner salesman, Jamaica’s answer to Britain’s Richard Branson, is on track to become the Caribbean’s first homegrown billionaire. Stewart, the country’s largest employer…

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Wilmot, Phillips emerge overall champions

Following the third and final event of the Jamaica Surfing Associations (JSA) 2008 National

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