WHOSE idea was it to hold the 2022 World Cup in a little place the size of Connecticut with temperatures hotter than inside your oven? Whose idea was it to hold the world’s biggest football event, synonymous with lager, lager, lager, in a place that doesn’t do alcohol?

Usain Bolt racked up his sixth world title in Moscow to go alongside his half dozen Olympic golds – and then declared he was far from done with winning.

A fishing trip turned into a three-week fight for survival for two men, who drifted under an intense Caribbean sun for hundreds of miles in a small boat with a broken motor.

A fishing trip turned into a three-week fight for survival for two men, who drifted under an intense Caribbean sun for hundreds of miles in a small boat with a broken motor.

Jamaicans stocked up on supplies and reinforced roofs ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Sandy, which is expected to hit the Caribbean island as a hurricane with lashing rain and wind.

As Olympic fever gripped the nation over the last few weeks, we bore witness to some of the greatest athletic feats in history.

Great Britain’s sprint relay woes continued last night as another baton changeover mistake cost them a place in the 4x100 metres final at the Olympic Stadium.

Shrugging off economic hardships and high crime, people across Jamaica have proudly displayed the national colours of gold, black and green to mark the Caribbean island’s 50th anniversary of independence from Britain.

Jamaica and the International Monetary Fund expect to begin negotiations in the coming weeks on a new deal as grim economic forecasts pose significant dangers for the debt-schackled Caribbean island, officials announced.

Most Jamaicans believe the island would be better off under British rule, a new poll suggests.

Passengers on the American Airlines plane that overshot the runway in Jamaica and stopped just seconds away from the sea told of their terrifying ordeal today.

AN American Airlines flight carrying 154 people skidded across a Jamaican runway in heavy rain, bouncing across the tarmac and injuring more than 40 people before it stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea, officials and witnesses said.

JEREMY WARINER wants to break the stadium record in the 400m at the 33rd Belgacom Van Damme Memorial Golden League meeting in Brussels tonight – and Ireland’s David Gillick will have a part to play in the bid.

Five Jamaican athletes who were cleared after producing positive tests at their national trials in June are allowed to compete at the World Championships, although an independent panel hearing an appeal against the decision has yet to sit.

PAUL HESSION will get his new outdoor season under way tonight when he lines up for the 100m at the Primo Nebiolo Memorial Meeting which will be staged in Turin.

The Football Association have confirmed they will pursue Jamaica for a £135,000 (€168,660) debt, despite the Caribbean country’s FA believing they would write off the sum.

Now that the Olympics are over, the post-mortems will begin in earnest and the age-old question will be asked again — why can’t we compete with the rest of the world in the various disciplines at Olympic level?

AS HIS fellow competitors headed for the changing rooms, Ireland’s 200m sprinter Paul Hession lingered on the track for a while watching himself on one of the giant screens which hang in this vast Bird’s Nest Stadium.

PAUL HESSION, who looks a serious contender for a place in the final of the 200m at next month’s Olympic Games, doubles up in the 100m and 200m at The Mardyke today.

ALISTAIR CRAGG joins the international stars at Cork City Sports at The Mardyke tomorrow week.

Olympic champion Mark Lewis-Francis insists Great Britain’s 4x100 metre relay team at the World Championships in Osaka has the individual potential to be better than the one that stormed to gold in Athens three years ago.

Jamaicans headed inland and tourists fled the country as the powerful Hurricane Dean appeared poised to make a direct hit on the island after a deadly and destructive march across the eastern Caribbean.

THE history of immigration in Britain is dogged by waste, despair and death — yet today the country can rightly boast about being among Europe’s most integrated societies.

DERVAL O’ROURKE and Paul Hession head to the first Golden League meeting of the year — the Bislett Games in Oslo tonight — hoping for better weather than that which greeted them at an international meeting in Stavanger, Norway on Wednesday night.

IRISH sports fans are putting together a new version of the Green Army to bowl over the opposition at the Cricket World Cup in Jamaica this March.

FORGET the club hurling finals in Croke Park this St Patrick’s Day, the stick sport with unique appeal will be in Jamaica, where Ireland will play in their first ever ICC Cricket World Cup.

Wayne Rooney has taken the first steps down the long road to proving his fitness for the World Cup finals.

Watford striker Marlon King has been thrown out of the Jamaica squad ahead of Saturday’s international against England.

Hurricane Emily regained dangerous Category 4 strength today, frightening storm-weary islanders in Jamaica and Cayman Islands after ravaging Grenada.

Hurricane Dennis flooded roads in Haiti and threatened a direct hit on Jamaica, pushing oil prices sharply higher and becoming the second storm to threaten oil output in the Gulf of Mexico.

Reggae star Bob Marley’s widow plans to exhume his remains in Jamaica and rebury them in his “spiritual resting place”, Ethiopia.

Members of Bob Marley’s estate are lobbying the Jamaican government to proclaim the dreadlocked reggae singer a national hero, the country's highest honour.

Hurricane Ivan lost its catastrophic capabilities as it skirted Grand Cayman today, but it still uprooted trees, burst the banks of canals and flooded some homes with winds near 155mph.

Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica’s coast today but is not expected to make a direct hit, meteorologists said.

Hurricane Ivan’s deadly winds and monstrous waves bore down on Jamaica tonight as more than half a million people to flee from its path.

Hurricane Ivan left Grenada a wasteland of flattened houses, twisted metal and splintered wood as it bore down on Jamaica with deadly winds and monstrous waves, prompting the Jamaican government to order half a million people to flee their homes.

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Jamaican musicians have recorded a tribute album to Bob Dylan, playing some of the American folk legend’s most well-known songs in reggae style.

THERE were matches aplenty to savour at Belfield yesterday afternoon as the third day of the five-a-side competition drew to a conclusion on the 25 sun-parched pitches at UCD.

LETHESIA and Leo Murphy may have travelled thousands of miles but felt right at home as they stretched and limbered up on the track at the Regional Sports Centre in Waterford.

In a close and tense general election fraught with fears of political violence, Jamaicans today voted for politicians promising to stem spiralling crime and kick-start a sluggish economy.

In a close and tense general election fraught with fears of political violence, more than one million Jamaicans are expected to vote today for politicians promising to stem spiralling crime and kick-start a sluggish economy.

A tropical storm is picking up speed and heading for Jamaica.

The toll of days of firefights between police and opposition supporters was marked in Jamaica by streets stained with blood, the hulks of burned-out vehicles, and the heat-bloated body of an elderly man, who had been shot in the back.