Kemar Ricketts to run Calabar football from June while keeping Treasure Beach FC Premier League role

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Calabar High has installed Kemar Ricketts as technical director of its football programme ahead of the upcoming schoolboy season, charging him with sustaining competitiveness in urban-area competition while he maintains ties to Jamaica Premier League club Treasure Beach FC in St Elizabeth.

The appointment was made public on Monday evening for the institution on Red Hills Road. Ricketts, a former mentor at Munro College and BB Coke High, begins the role on 1 June with oversight of the school’s entire football structure, a remit that may lead to further coaching changes as he puts his own staff in place.

Speaking about Treasure Beach FC, Ricketts said he is technical director there rather than carrying every match-day duty alone, and that established routines and supporting coaches already manage a share of the workload. Premier League sessions are generally held in the mornings, he added, which he believes leaves room to shepherd the club programme alongside his new Kingston responsibilities.

He framed the Calabar job as a long-term build. “This is the beginning of something that we want to create, to leave a legacy,” he said, describing plans to reshape training so each age cohort follows one aligned system, making it simpler for players to move from one tier to the next. Where several conflicting philosophies operate inside a single pathway, advancement slows, he argued; continuity, he said, should ease progression.

Ricketts described his school brief as combining technical director and senior coaching duties, including appointing coaches across the teams. He maintained that both workplaces can run successfully under the timetable he outlined.