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Drag Racing: End of Year Drags at Jamwest this Sunday!

I got a link from 'Elle' (a Jamwest representative) recently informing me about this event. Drag racing has seen a revival in 2013 and the wheels of speed will seek to blast along the 1/4 mile in record time, this weekend, at Jamaica's only purpose-built drag racing facility - Jamwest Speedway (Little London, Westmoreland). Machines arriving at Jamwest for an event. The fact that the circuit racing season ended in October, means that the 'massive' from the West and its immediate environs [...]

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TIME TO INVEST IN ALIA

Corporate sponsors have played a significant role in the development of Jamaican sports, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on high school football, track and field, netball, lawn tennis, and cricket among others. However, the same cannot really be said for some sports at the senior level. At that level football gets the bulk of the spend but no matter how you cut it gives the least return on investment as it relates to success. Other sports such as swimming don't get [...]

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Rally: Rally Jamaica 2013 - Meet and Greet in New Kingston

Rally Jamaica 2013 had its ceremonial start session on Knutsford Blvd, Friday night (29th). The rally faithful and the curious came out. A curvaceous tropical flower asked - "A wha a gwaan up deh so?" When I brought her up to speed, she gazed at the machines for a while then made an about turn! I saw her moments after, supporting a column at Island Grill! As popular as the Lancer Evolution is, the X is still not a common sight [...]

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Rally: Rally Jamaica 2013 - Scrutineering.

Despite 1 complete year between each staging of the event, Rally Jamaica has an uncanny way of sneaking upon a n.g.a (n word)! Apparently it came too soon and the competitors wanted additional time to prepare their machines. The document I read stated that Scrutineering would begin at 11am,  so I got there at about that time to grab the early birds. Surprise, surprise - I was the early bird! At 11:15 am Ian Webb and his scrutineering team had [...]

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Rally: Rally Jamaica 2012 - flashback.

Show me the bastard who coined this phrase - money cant buy you happiness! I have a pleasant surprise for him. After clobbering him mercilessly with the closet object to my left hand - I hope it can inflict 'non-scar' pain - I will scold him for his selfish and uncaring pronouncement.  I would then show him a machine I saw on Saturday that would give me endless pleasure. But the last time I checked my emaciated bank account, I [...]

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Teri Ann Renee Paisley, Gleaner Online Writer My favourite time of year is fast approaching. No it's not visions of sugar plums that are dancing in my head, it's bargains that are just waiting as in a few weeks the shopping season will be in full swing. Stores need to showcase their new stock, but before they can do so, they need to find a way to get rid of their older merchandise. Since they also need to make a profit [...]