 It was the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games.Joseph Mackenzie, former student at St. George's College, won a silver medal in the high jump with a jump of 1.75 m becoming Jamaica's first ever international medal winner.In 1934 Jamaica entered their first ever team into the British Empire Games (now known as the Commonwealth Games) the team won a silver in swimming and Bernard Leopold Prendergast won a bronze in the discus throw with a

The first part of the forties was interrupted by the Second World War.