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Samuda makes case for a national strategic and business sport plan

admin2022-01-06T21:07:33-05:00

Sport 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

Samuda makes case for a national strategic and business sport planadmin2022-01-06T21:07:33-05:00

Lacrosse association, G.C. Foster sign partnership

admin2022-01-04T15:23:08-05:00

The Jamaica Lacrosse Association (JLA) recently signed a partnership with the Spanish Town-based G.C. Foster College to have a course for the sport included in the institution’s curriculum.

Lacrosse association, G.C. Foster sign partnershipadmin2022-01-04T15:23:08-05:00

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 looks to increase sport administration knowledge baseadmin2023-09-07T18:19:45-05:00

Jamaica’s karate earns global affiliation

admin2021-11-29T19:14:43-05:00

FOR THE Jamaica Karate Federation, Thursday will go down as a red letter day as the local sporting body was officially accepted by the World Karate Federation (WKF), this after a provisional membership. Jamaica recently participated in the 25th World Karate Championships earlier this month in Dubai, and that is where the historic occasion unfolded as the country was voted a permanent member of the WKF.

Jamaica’s karate earns global affiliationadmin2021-11-29T19:14:43-05:00

JOA to host first-ever OlympicJamFest next year – Jamaica Observer

admin2021-11-22T15:41:27-05:00

The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) takes another historic step, but this time it is in film, television, and cinema.

Next year, from October 20 to 22, it will host OlympicJamFest as part of the global film festival of the Fédération Internationale Cinéma Télévision Sportifs (FICTS). President of the JOA Christopher Samuda, who is a member of the International Festival Commission of the federation, made the announcement on his return recently from Milan, Italy, where the 39th Milano International FICTS Festival 2021 was staged.

JOA to host first-ever OlympicJamFest next year – Jamaica Observeradmin2021-11-22T15:41:27-05:00

British-born grand-niece of Rex Nettleford is exciting new weightlifting find for Jamaica

admin2021-11-08T21:38:39-05:00

Team Jamaica has made an exciting new find to boost its chances in international weightlifting competition, with the addition of Chloe Whylie, a grand niece of the late Professor Rex Nettleford, who has been getting attention in Britain where she was born of Jamaican parentage.

British-born grand-niece of Rex Nettleford is exciting new weightlifting find for Jamaicaadmin2021-11-08T21:38:39-05:00

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