Jamaica Observer partners with JOA to deliver support for Olympic movement
admin2023-09-07T15:22:32-05:00The Jamaica Observer Limited and the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) [...]
JOA's Financial Performance – Bankable and Groundbreaking
admin2023-09-07T18:18:26-05:00The financial performance of Jamaica's governing body for Olympic and [...]
Samuda makes case for a national strategic and business sport plan
admin2022-01-06T21:07:33-05:00Sport is a business and like any viable business, there has to be a plan that sustains the business. A maxim that was articulated by president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), Christopher Samuda, in the featured address he delivered at the partnership investiture between the Jamaica Lacrosse Association and the G C Foster College of Physical Education and Sport and also in a post-event interview. In lauding the partnership, Samuda exhorted the parties to become “influencers and instrumental in the creation of a national strategic and business sport plan and its activation” and in so doing he identified elements of this plan
JOA looks to increase sport administration knowledge base
admin2023-09-07T18:19:45-05:00
Seventeen presidents and secretaries general from 17 sports associations, as well as known sport personalities, are expected to be trained and receive international certification upon completion of sport-specific courses offered by the academy next year, as part of the Protocol for Partnership Agreement which was signed earlier this year by the JOA and its member, the Jamaica Paralympic Association (JPA), with the USSA.
JOA breaks ground for Olympic Manor’s ‘next generation
admin2021-11-07T20:42:04-05:00CEMENTING its legacy and platform for future sportsmen and sportswomen, the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), under the theme ‘Next Generation’, broke ground on Thursday to build out its Olympic Manor at Cunningham Avenue in Kingston.
