Jamaica News Bulletin

West Indies captain Chris Gayle said after his team’s victory in the 1st Digicel Test in Jamaica more than a month ago that any talk of “turning the corner” would have to be left until the conclusion of the Digicel Test Series 2009.

There were more murmurs of corner-turning as the imposing skipper held aloft the Wisden Trophy at the Queen’s Park Oval following his team’s fighting draw on Tuesday. That result secured a 1-0 success, the first series victory for the Caribbean side since June, 2004.

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Brenden Nash’s maiden Test century on day four of the 5th Digicel Test against England was the culmination of a long road of travel and tough grind for the Australian-born West Indies left-hander.

“It’s been many years of hard work,” the 31-year-old Nash said after play. “To finally get the opportunity to be there on 98 and 99 was very nervous but I finally got there in the end so I was pretty happy with that obviously.”

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USA Track & Field this week proposed that the world's two sprinting powerhouses challenge each other in a unique, dual-meet format that could see some of track and field's superstars match up like never before.
 
USATF has formally invited Jamaica to engage in a home-and-home series in 2009 that that will pit the two nations' sprinters and hurdlers against each other in head-to-head, team-scored competition.

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Hon. L. Michael Henry, Ministry of Transport and Works, the National Road Safety Council’s Vice Chairman, Dr Lucien Jones, Executive Director, Paula Fletcher and Council co-sponsor, Earl Jarrett, recently returned from the first High Level Ibero-American Road Safety Forum for Latin America and the Caribbean (EISEVI).  The seminar, themed, ‘Protecting Lives”, was held in Madrid Spain between 23 and 24 February 2009.

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