A London youth worker has drowned while rescuing his son from the waters off the south coast of Jamaica.
Former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell has been banned from athletics for 18 months over doping offences.
Jamaican dancehall pioneer Vybz Kartel, real name Adidja Palmer, has been sentenced to life in prison, with no consideration for parole for 35 years, for the 2011 murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams.
In a case of real life imitating art, Jamaica may now be able to send a bobsleigh team to the Sochi Olympics after the Reddit Dogecoin forum raised 35 Bitcoins ($30,000) to help them on their way.
Usain Bolt is the first man of athletics and he is the first man to defend the Olympic titles in both the 100m and 200m, but on Twitter as well he has broken records.