New Zealand hosted Fiji, Jamaica and Malawi in a full tournament, played in March 2018, at the North Shore Events Centre.

It was effectively a warm-up tournament, ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

[2][3] With a team featuring Jhaniele Fowler Reid, Romelda Aiken and Shamera Sterling, Jamaica won their first Taini Jamison Trophy.

During the tournament, they twice defeated New Zealand, once in the preliminary rounds and again in the final.

[4][5][6][7] Despite winning the series, Netball New Zealand refused to allow Jamaica to take the actual trophy home, stating that "for insurance purposes... we can't really have it go offshore".