ST Elizabeth Technical’s Jauavney James was one of four double individual gold medalists, as Jamaica cruised to a 29th-straight hold on the CARIFTA Games track and field championships held at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas, over the Easter weekend.

James, who recently won the Class 2 800m/1500m double at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ Champs, won the gold medals in the Under 17 boys’ 1,500m 4:06.63 seconds and 3,000m 9:26.45 seconds, while anchoring the Under-17 4x400m team to third place, as athletes from western Jamaica accounted for six individual medals — four gold medals and two silver medals — as well as helping to win two other relay medals.

James, Kimone Green and Warren Barrett all won gold medals, while Petersfield High’s Sanjay Lawrence and Orlando Smith of St Elizabeth Technical won silver medals.

Jamaica won 69 medals, inclusive of 29 gold, 25 silver and 15 bronze, well ahead of hosts Bahamas who won 31 medals — 8 gold, 10 silver and 13 bronze.

Kimone Green, also of St Elizabeth Technical, won the Under-20 girls 400m hurdles in 59.31 seconds in her return to the team, after missing out on a spot last year.

Green had won the gold medal in the Under-17 300m hurdles in 2011.

Cornwall College’s Warren Barrett Jnr made up for his fourth-place disappointment at Boys’ Champs with a personal best 16.88m to win the gold medal in the Under-17 boys’ shot put.

Barrett had an outstanding series in the finals on Sunday morning, exceeding 16.0m in four of his six attempts, and any of his next best two throws — 16.68m and 16.53m — would have been good enough to win the gold ahead of teammate Vashon McCarthy, who beat him at Champs, but had to settle for the silver in Nassau.

Lawrence won silver in the Under-17 discus behind McCarthy with 48.26m, while Smith was also second in the Under-17 boys’ 400m hurdles in 56.89 seconds.

Odail Todd of Green Island ran a brilliant anchor leg to lead Jamaica to the gold medal in the Under-20 boys’ 4x100m relays, after finishing fourth in the 100m, but failed to complete the 200m on Monday’s final day.

Canniga Harriot of Munro College was eighth in the Under-17 400m, but took home a bronze medal as part of the 4x400m relay team, while his schoolmate Herbert Thomas fell in the Under-20 boys’ 800m and failed to complete the event.