Call us: 1.876.927.3017
nocjam@joa.org.com
Jamaica Olympic AssociationJamaica Olympic AssociationJamaica Olympic AssociationJamaica Olympic Association
  • Home
  • About JOA
  • Our Directors
  • Our Services
  • News
  • Member Associations
  • Our Partners
  • Contact Us

OUR IMPACT ON SPORT

News Highlights

  • JOA – Building People, Building Sport from the Grassroots

    March 8, 2022

  • JOA’s Financial Performance – Bankable and Groundbreaking

    January 30, 2022

  • JOA Remains Confident in Growing Jamaica’s Winter Olympic Sports Programme

    January 23, 2022

  • Another International Partnership for the JOA

    January 23, 2022

  • JOA Building Coaching Capacity

    January 20, 2022

Jamaica’s karate earns global affiliation

29 November 2021 | International News,JOA News,Karate | admin
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.

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

8 November 2021 | International News,Olympics,Weighlifting | admin
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.

Jamaican medallists, coaches at Tokyo 2020 Olympics to be rewarded

25 August 2021 | Featured,International News,JOA News,Local News | admin
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Tokyo 2020 Olympic medallists and their coaches will benefit from a $41 million “Olympic Rewards Programme” courtesy of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) and two of its key sponsorship partners, Supreme Ventures Limited through the Supreme Ventures Foundation and Mayberry Investments.

LATEST NEWS

08 Mar

JOA – Building People, Building Sport from the Grassroots

The success of sports is inextricably linked with the development of people, and the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) is

Comments are Closed / JOA News,Local News / Read More
30 Jan

JOA’s Financial Performance – Bankable and Groundbreaking

 The financial performance of Jamaica’s governing body for Olympic and non-Olympic sports continues to raise the bar in demonstrating

Comments are Closed / JOA News,Local News / Read More
23 Jan

JOA Remains Confident in Growing Jamaica’s Winter Olympic Sports Programme

It is an open secret that the present administration of the Jamaica Olympic Association, JOA, is creating “heat waves”

Comments are Closed / Bobsleigh And Skeleton,JOA News,Olympics / Read More
23 Jan

Another International Partnership for the JOA

The strength of the brand of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) and the value of partnering with Jamaica’s governing

0 comment / JOA News,Jump Rope / Read More
20 Jan

JOA Building Coaching Capacity

A record number of coaches, who were last year registered by the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) for a rigorous

0 comment / Beijing 2022,JOA News / Read More
06 Jan

Samuda makes case for a national strategic and business sport plan

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

Comments are Closed / JOA News,Local News / Read More
04 Jan

Lacrosse association, G.C. Foster sign partnership

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.

Comments are Closed / JOA News,Lacrosse / Read More
04 Jan

JOA looks to increase sport administration knowledge base

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.

Comments are Closed / JOA News,Local News / Read More
29 Nov

Jamaica’s karate earns global affiliation

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.

Comments are Closed / International News,JOA News,Karate / Read More
22 Nov

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

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.

Comments are Closed / Featured,JOA News,OlympicJamFest / Read More

Social Media News

jamaicaolympicJamaica Olympic Association@jamaicaolympic·
23 May

We are excited to see our paralympic team in Birmingham this Summer 💚💛💚!

Drop some hearts for our athletes 👇

@jamaicaparalympic
#sportsja #jamaica #B2022

Reply on Twitter 1528858347444772864Retweet on Twitter 15288583474447728642Like on Twitter 15288583474447728648Twitter 1528858347444772864
jamaicaolympicJamaica Olympic Association@jamaicaolympic·
20 May

See you in Birmingham Crocs🐊 ✨.

Jamaica Rugby Sevens will be at the Commonwealth Games this summer !

@jamaicarugby7s
#rugbyja #jamaica 🐊 #sportsja #B2022ja

Reply on Twitter 1527605131008778240Retweet on Twitter 15276051310087782401Like on Twitter 152760513100877824010Twitter 1527605131008778240
jamaicaolympicJamaica Olympic Association@jamaicaolympic·
18 May

Our Sunshine Girls are ready to go 🌞 ✨

Netball Jamaica is ranked 4th in the world and will be competing at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham💯💫

@Netball Jamaica
💚 💛 💚

#netballja #jamaica #sportsja

Reply on Twitter 1526971214094290944Retweet on Twitter 15269712140942909442Like on Twitter 15269712140942909442Twitter 1526971214094290944
Load More...
We are excited to see our paralympic team in Birmi We are excited to see our paralympic team in Birmingham this Summer 💚💛💚!

Drop some hearts for our athletes 👇

@jamaicaparalympic 
#sportsja #jamaica #B2022
Load More... Follow on Instagram

Jamaica Olympic Association

1 day ago

Jamaica Olympic Association
We are excited to see our paralympic team in Birmingham this Summer 💚💛💚!Drop some hearts for our athletes 👇@jamaicaparalympic #sportsja #Jamaica #B2022 ... See MoreSee Less

Photo

View on Facebook
· Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

JOA SOCIAL LINKS

CONNECT WITH US EVERYWHERE

ALWAYS WORKING ON ADVANCING SPORT IN JAMAICA

Subscribe Now CONTACT US

Contact us

Olympic Manor
9 Cunningham Avenue Kingston 6

Phone Number
+1 876 927 3017
+1 876 927 3018

Email Adress
nocjam@joa.org.jm

© Copyright 2021 Jamaica Olympic Association | All Rights Reserved
  • Home
  • About JOA
  • Our Directors
  • Our Services
  • News
  • Member Associations
  • Our Partners
  • Contact Us
Jamaica Olympic Association