Gibson Relays 2008 Results and Highlights
Defending Inter-Secondary boys champions Calabar High gave St Jago High’s crack sprint quartet a huge scare before losing in the final strides in an exciting end to the Gibson Relays Class One 4×100 metres relay at the National Stadium yesterday.
Led by the outstanding World Youth Championships 200 metres gold medallist Ramone McKenzie on the second leg, Calabar dominated for the first 300m and it took a devastating run from national junior 100m record holder Yohan Blake on the final leg to earn victory for St Jago ahead of Calabar’s anchorman Oshane Bailey. St Jago crossed the line in 40.29 with Calabar second in 40.81 and Jamaica College third in 40.81.
ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ & Girls’ Athletic Championships 2008 Launched
The perennial matter of security will be high on the agenda for the annual ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ & Girls’ Athletic Championships, with 20 per cent of the J$8.3-million budget for the 2008 event, which will take place from March 12-15 at the National Stadium, geared towards security.
Champs Chairman, Clement Radcliffe, speaking at yesterday’s launch of the island’s biggest track & field meeting at the Knutsford Court Hotel, said no more than 24,000 tickets will be sold for the bleachers section of the National Stadium.
Independence Park Limited general manager, Major Desmond Brown, told the Observer the National Stadium has a seating capacity of 30,000, with 5,404 of those seats in the Grandstand. Read more
Foreigners invade 32nd Gibson Relays – Calabar Set to Shine
Teams from the Netherlands Antilles, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas have indicated their intent to compete in today’s 32nd staging of the Gibson Relays at the National Stadium, in hopes of qualifying for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The teams will compete in the 4x100m event at the relay carnival which is being used for the first time this year as an Olympic Games qualifying meet, after it was approved as such last year by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
IAAF rules state that for relays, only the best 16 national teams which meet the qualifying standard between January 1, 2007 and July 16, 2008, will be eligible to compete at the Olympics which will be held in China from August 8-24.
Meanwhile, close to 3,000 athletes have been confirmed to participate in the relays, which are expected to boast teams from St Jago, Holmwood, Wolmer’s, Calabar, Kingston College, and Jamaica College participating in 37 events, including eight Championship races. Read more
Reverend Dr Horace Russell a Great Jamaican
This evening, the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU) hosts a worship service at Calabar to mark the 50th anniversary of the ordination of the Reverend Dr Horace Russell to the Christian ministry.
This significant milestone will be held in the context of a very important week because starting tomorrow, the JBU will be hosting its 159th assembly.
It is also symbolic that it is being held at the historic Calabar, a place where Russell went to high school, theological college and a place where he was ordained and became chaplain. It was a place where he baptised boys, including Derrick Kellier, MP. Read more
Calabar High team set to Dominate Howard Jackson Relays
World Youth 200m champion, Romaine McKenzie and his Calabar High team, could have things their own way at the 23rd staging of the Serge Island-sponsored Howard Jackson Relays at Paul Bogle Junior High School in Morant Bay, today, starting at 9:00 a.m.
McKenzie, along with Jermaine Brown and Oshaine Bailey, should lead their team in the Class One 4×150 and 4x300m events against Camperdown, Holmwood, Morant Bay and St. George’s. Calabar should also fancy their chances in Class Two with Earl Lee and Robert Palmer, who finished one-two at last week’s Douglas Forrest Invitational. Read more
Calabar High School 2010 Project
Although examination results cannot by themselves be a total judge of performance, they do in fact give a general overview of performance. The continued decline in overall academic performance and discipline at Calabar High School is cause for much concern. A review of the 6th Form (grades 13) 2007 external exam results show the following
There has however been some academic achievements, with students winning a number of scholarships and teams such as the Schools Challenge Team performing exceptionally well over the past few years. Our achievements on the sports field have also improved recently. However not many of the team members have performed adequately enough in the classroom to qualify for many of the athletic scholarships which are currently available.
The schools infrastructure is in urgent need of a major overhaul. There is an urgent requirement of four (4) additional classrooms and the refurbishing of nearly all the existing classrooms. To add insult to injury, a number of classrooms were recently damaged during the passing of hurricane Dean and some have still not been repaired satisfactorily.
This ever increasing poor performance of Calabar students adds to the growing phenomenon of the marginalization of young men in the society as a substantial number of her graduates add to these statistics each year.
SUPPORT FROM OLD BOYS
Despite all of the above, Calabar Old Boys continue to support the school and in fact many of the existing non-classroom activities could not continue with the success that exists without support from Old Boys. This support however is as a result of each chapter of the association going back to its members every year (sometimes several times within a year) to solicit funding.
CALABAR 2010 PROJECT
Whilst funding by itself can not solve all the existing problems at Calabar, adequate funding will go a far way in providing the necessary resources to fix the problems. The problems at Calabar are many and vary from social to economic and infrastructure issues. Read more
Herb McKenley’s body at Calabar and Related News
A statue is to be erected in honour of arguably Jamaica’s greatest athlete, Herbert Henry McKenley OM, who was laid to rest in front of a modest gathering of family, friends, officials and members of the track & field fraternity at twilight at National Heroes Park.
Read More – Jamaica Observer
Tributes were heaped on world renowned sports icon, Herbert Henry McKenley, at his official funeral service on (December 8), held at the National Arena in Kingston. Noting the challenge one would have to sum up the life of such a great legend, Former Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson in giving the remembrance, spoke of Mr. McKenley’s first years in his birth town, Pleasant Valley in Clarendon, his achievements on the sporting arena, his involvement in youth development and his contribution to national development.
Read More – JIS
The sharp hoot of the whistle was missing. There was no clap of the starter’s gun and no roar from the stadium crowd, but Jamaican Olympian Herb McKenley’s final race across the sands of time yesterday was no less legendary than the first which brought him fame. Hundreds of Jamaicans, many of them men whom he had trained to run like the wind, yesterday paid their last respects to the track legend in a star-studded official funeral at the National Arena in Kingston.
Read More – Jamaica Observer
David ‘Wagga’ Hunt Laid to Rest
Just as he did during his lifetime, David “Wagga” Hunt did in death, as he drew a multitude of people to him as hundreds of Jamaicans came to pay their last respects to one of Jamaica’s most beloved football coaches. Hunt, 51, a former national Under-17 coach, was laid to rest at Dovecot Memorial Park after a thanksgiving service at an over-filled Meadowbrook United Church, just a stone’s throw across the road from his home on Flemmington Drive.
So huge was the crowd that two tents were erected on either side of the church with several big screen televisions to accommodate the unfortunate mourners who arrived late.
People from all walks of life poured in to say goodbye to a man who touched their lives in one way or the other.
Hunt, who died of a heart attack on October 27 after collapsing at his home, was paid the highest respect, as the accolades kept pouring in.
In painful and emotional tributes, Hunt was described as a family man, an excellent coach, a business man, a giant among men, unselfish, passionate, multi-faceted, never-say-die, honest and of the utmost integrity.
The list went on and on and would have even continued into today if the mourners had the time. Read more
Calabar SSA/Pepsi/Digicel Walker Cup 2007 Champions!
A hat trick from captain Cleyon Brown carried Calabar High to a 3-0 win over rivals Jamaica College (JC) in the final of the Walker Cup at the National Stadium yesterday, as the Red Hills Road institution realised its dream of winning the coveted crown in honour of its recently passed coach, David ‘Wagga’ Hunt. Brown netted in the 39th, 67th and 81st minutes to deny the Old Hope Road school their first hold on the trophy, while giving Calabar their second lien on the title. The players knew what they had to do and they came and did it for the great David Hunt,” said winning coach Lijyasu Simms.
“He was a great mentor, a great coach, a father, everything. It is hard to explain, but we have done it for him,” he added.
After looking the more likely to score in the first-half, JC found themselves a goal behind six minutes before the break.
However, Ramone Palmer had earlier found the net for JC 15 minutes into the match, but he was ruled offside.
The midfielder then had another gloirious opportunity on the half-hour, after he intercepted a backpass from Ricardo Lattibeaudiere, but with only goalkeeper Oneil Wilson to beat, he put his effort wide of the upright.
Calabar had good possession but rarely had a clear chance at goal.
But Brown put his team ahead after taking down a ball over the JC defence and fired an arrow-straight shot into the goal at Oliver Walker’s near-post. Read more
Calabar, JC into Walker Cup final 2007
Calabar High and Jamaica College (JC) scored identical 1-0 victories over Bridgeport and Excelsior High, respectively, at the National Stadium yesterday to set up a mouth-watering Walker Cup final at the same venue tomorrow. Red Hills Roads-based Calabar beat Bridgeport in extra-time through an Odain Sinclair strike, while JC stopped Excelsior courtesy of Anthony Grant’s 34th-minute goal. Interestingly, the final will pitch a JC side consisting of four players from last season’s Calabar team, which includes former captain of the 2005 Manning Cup and Oliver Shield winning side, Robert Palmer, who missed yesterday’s game through suspension.
The others are playmaker Ramone Palmer, Kemal Bedward and Adrian Christian. They will face-off against their former team-mates in what is expected to be a keenly-contested affair.
According to one Calabar fan, “Wagga had predicted this”, and for JC coach, Alfred Henry, the match will be an emotional one as the late Calabar coach, David Hunt, was a close and longtime friend and Calabar are also out to win the trophy for their former coach.
In the feature match, JC College looked the more threatening of the teams at the start and went ahead after half-an-hour when Grant raced onto a ball played over the Excelsior defence and shot across goalkeeper Ameal Douglas into the far corner. Read more
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