The Jamaica Information Service of 7 October 2025 reported that Ricardo \u201cBibi\u201d Gardner was to be conferred with the Order of Distinction in the Rank of Officer on National Heroes\u2019 Day, 20 October 2025, \u201cfor contribution to Sports, in particular football.\u201d On 21 October JIS recorded the investiture at King\u2019s House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He told Britney Stevens of JIS News that he went to Wolmer\u2019s Boys\u2019 School on a track-and-field scholarship. \u201cI went there for track and field, so no one knew I could play football\u2026 One day, they just saw me on the football field and the rest was history.\u201d The Observer of 7 October reprinted the same interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Observer of 3 December 2013, by Sean Williams, is the independent Manning Cup paper. After Jamaica College beat Wolmer\u2019s in extra time, Gardner, \u201ca former star at the Heroes Circle school,\u201d said the defeat was \u201cvery hard to take.\u201d Williams recorded that he had been \u201can integral part\u201d of the 1994 Manning Cup side \u201cas a precocious 14-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JIS traces the club path from Harbour View through the Reggae Boyz in 1997 and the France 1998 World Cup squad. After France he went to Bolton Wanderers. JIS and a 2014 Gleaner snippet both print 14 years at the club. Audley Boyd, in the Gleaner of 1 December 2025, wrote: \u201cfrom schoolboy selection at Wolmer\u2019s Boys to captaining Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sources: JIS, Jamaica honours Ricardo \u201cBibi\u201d Gardner with OD<\/a>, 7 October 2025; Jamaica Observer, Wolmer\u2019s Manning Cup defeat hurts Bibi deeply<\/a>, 3 December 2013; Jamaica Gleaner, Time to end English experiment<\/a>, 1 December 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Jamaica Information Service of 7 October 2025 reported that Ricardo \u201cBibi\u201d Gardner was to be conferred with the Order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}