Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday presented a cheque valued at $1.52 million to the Jamaica Visually Impaired Cricket Association (JVICA) at Jamaica House.
The funds will go towards covering the cost for hosting the upcoming 7th regional visually impaired cricket tournament to be held July 18-24, the Office of the Prime Minister said.
A team of disabled athletes looking to participate in this weekend's swim race across the East River say organizers are shutting them out — ordering them to sign an extra safety waiver and pay extra fees if they want to participate.
Two visually impaired girls studying in the national capital have been given zero marks in one subject in their CBSE examination. Ironically they had scored between 85 and 95 marks in all other subjects.
The CBSE has said that it is looking into the matter. This after questions are being raised as to whether the board went wrong.
Aaron Scheidies wasn’t going after any records Sunday morning at the 26th annual Sabates Eye Centers Trolley Run. Scheidies had just come off the Boston Marathon and wanted to take it easy on his legs, even though the Trolley Run is just 4 miles long.
Photos by Susan Pfannmuller | Special to The Star Severally visually impaired runners competed with the aid of guides in Sunday’s Trolley Run. Among them were Lex Gillette (right) of San Diego and guide Brighyan Clifton of Kansas City, and Markeith Price (back right) of San Diego and guide Ryan Ortiz of Colorado Springs.
Despite recent successes, including winning the T20 World Cup, visually impaired players are not getting the backing that could turn them into professionals
Shekhar Naik, India's visually-impaired cricket captain, defends a ball, Bangalore, April 12, 2014
Shekhar Naik:" If the BCCI recognise us, we could get more sponsors. We have 40,000 blind cricketers right now and given some help it could double, even triple".
For many people, one marathon is enough, but Harmander Singh is running his 30th consecutive London Marathon.
Harmander, 54, runs with Ilford group Sikhs in the City and trained the world’s oldest marathon runner, Fauja Singh, the 101, for the 2012 race.
This year he has worked with Louise Simpson, who was born blind and is raising money for visually-impaired children’s charity VICTA.
She competed in the London 2012 Paralympics, reaching the goalball quarter finals, and has set herself a new challenge.
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