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  • Pierre Charles played basketball during his youth and subsequently became Dominica's Prime Minister. Photo Courtesy: The Sun

    From the court to the platform

    May 19, 2018

    It is traditional in Dominica for a politician, or some other high-ranking official, to be "involved" in the official opening ceremony of the national basketball season or a community "Off-Season" ...

  • Milton Paul (Deceased) with one of Knicks' team trophies; died in 2014

    Subbed too soon

    May 10, 2018

    We are all familiar with the quote, "Death sometimes comes like a thief in the night", and from time to time this is manifested among Dominica's basketball fraternity.

  • Wadix Charles

    Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets: Basketballers in the Local Media

    April 26, 2018

    Segment D of Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets featured Sharome Burton, Nigel Hypolite, Garvin Richards and Johnson Jno. Rose. The article continues below.

  • Garvin Richards of DBS Radio plays basketball with Ole Skool

    Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets:Basketballers in the Local Media

    April 20, 2018

    Segment C of Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets featured Brian Francis, Charles James and Ashton Shillingford. The article continues below:

  • Raymond Lawrence, SAH, played basketball with Dominica Grammar School in the late 1960s

    Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets: Basketballers in the Local Media

    March 31, 2018

    Segment A of Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets featured Ishmael Lewis and Marcellus Lee. The article continues below.

  • Ashton Shillingford, Information Assistant & Cameraman, retired basketball player and dad of a young basketballer

    Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets Basketballers in the Local Media

    March 31, 2018

    Segment B of Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets featured Julian Pacquette, Raymond Lawrence and Michael Jones. The article continues below.

  • Ishmael Lewis played in the Schools League, National League and Off-Season Leagues

    Pens, Mics, Cameras & Baskets: Basketballers in the Local Media

    March 15, 2018

    Sports packages are an integral feature of the news in radio and television programming, and listeners and viewers often eagerly await updates on the performances of their favourite teams or ...

  • Ashworth Daniel, retired member of Blazers and the senior national basketball team; 2018

    Ashworth Daniel: Massacre's First Basketball Giant

    March 8, 2018

    Part I of Ashworth Daniel: Massacre's First Basketball Giant chronicled Ashworth's entry into basketball as a schoolboy; the teams in the national league that he played with during his career; ...

  • Ashworth Daniel at awards ceremony after Dominica won the 1993 Windward Islands Basketball Championship

    Ashworth Daniel: Massacre's First Basketball Giant

    March 2, 2018

    He's bearded, and at 6ft 8in he towers over the average Dominican and local basketball player. Ashworth Daniel felt like a giant when he played Division I (a.k.a. Premier Division) ...

  • Local basketball action. Photo Courtesy DABA & DNO

    Off-season Basketball Leagues:They Have Come A Long Way

    Feb. 28, 2018

    Part I of "Off-Season Basketball Leagues" which was published in the previous edition of Jump Ball presented an peek into the entry of the first two 'out-of-town' teams into the ...

  • Local basketball action (DABA/DNO photo)

    Off-season basketball leagues:They Have Come a Long Way

    Feb. 6, 2018

    Dominica's National Basketball League first tipped off in May 1966, with only four teams participating in that historic season. Back then, team and crowd participation were strictly a "Roseau affair."

  • Heskeith Winston

    Basketball in the Family

    Feb. 6, 2018

    Segment F of Basketball in The Family featured the following "Basketball Families": Edgar Robinson, his 4 sons and his grandson; and Edmund Williams (Sr.) and his son. The article concludes ...

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