Several elderly residents in St Thomas are bemoaning the recent changes implemented under the digital transformation initiative being undertaken by banks in the parish. The changes, according to the citizens, have been posing numerous challenges...
The atmosphere at the Golden Grove Meadows in St Thomas reeked of despair as dejected residents voiced anger at the stench that has overtaken their homes. Several former sugar workers and their families were relocated from the dilapidated Golden...
Residents of Fountain Road in Bath, St Thomas, say they are trusting God to be their refuge this hurricane season in light of flood threats posed by the Sulphur River that flows through their community. In the past, heavy rains have caused the...
THE ST Thomas Municipal Corporation has moved to address long-standing complaints by residents of Leith Hall and Airy Castle about inefficient garbage collection. The local council engaged residents of the community on Labour Day yesterday in the...
TAHIRAH STEELE’s last memory of her mother, 43-year-old Coleen Myers, alive was of the distressed woman rushing towards her drowning frame and clinging to her hand in a bid to repel the deathly clutch of the Rio Grande in Portland. Then she...
The National Works Agency (NWA) has given the assurance that the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic will not affect the roll-out of the highly anticipated Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project in St Thomas and Portland. In fact, the...
HAVING HAD to sit out her Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations because of financial difficulties her family faced at the time, Patrice Bromley of White Horses, St Thomas, envisioned providing for her daughter, Patrina Ashman, the...
As St Thomas remained one of three parishes yet to record a case of the deadly coronavirus in the island up to press time, residents are pleading for non-residents to keep out as Jamaica recorded a dramatic surge in cases over the last two days,...
At least two cane farmers in St Thomas have raised concerns about their exclusion from the list of beneficiaries of the $200 million allocated by the Government to assist those who have been negatively affected by the closure of the Golden Grove...
Fish vendors at the Morant Bay Fishing Village in St Thomas are bemoaning what they call a drastic decrease in sales since news of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) reached the shores of the country. The vendors said the...
There is political unrest in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as delegates in St Thomas Eastern have voiced disapproval of the prospective candidate being promoted by the hierarchy to vie in the next general election. Scores of placard-bearing...
Construction for the multibillion-dollar Morant Bay Urban Centre in St Thomas will officially begin in June of this year on the grounds of the Old Goodyear Oval in Springfield. The announcement was made by Lyttleton ‘Tanny’ Shirley, chairman of...
Cane farmers and sugar workers who were once employed by the recently shuttered Golden Grove Sugar Factory in St Thomas are to benefit from a $200-million grant from the Government. The announcement was made by Agriculture Minister Audley Shaw,...
Roots and culture Reggae Singer Bushman is proclaiming that he should have been booked for this year’s staging of the highly anticipated cultural show Rebel Salute despite the unfortunate way in which his set ended last year. Bushman drew much...
With the looming cane crop in full view, farmers in St Thomas who once supplied the commodity to the Golden Grove Sugar Company, which was shuttered in July 2019, gathered at the entrance of the old factory on Tuesday to bemoan what they described...
Unruly Fest, like Christmas, will catch residents of Springfield, St Thomas, in a good mood when it rolls in to the Goodyear Oval for its second staging tomorrow. The event, which is the brainchild of popular dancehall artiste and son of the soil...
As Tishauna Mullings sat in the ExCel Arena in London witnessing the crowning of Jamaican Toni-Ann Singh as Miss World 2019 last Saturday, she had special pride because the winner was a fellow St Thomas native. Mullings, who also made history for...
Still basking in the phenomenal victory pulled off by a daughter of St Thomas in the oldest-running international beauty pageant, residents of the rural community of Bath from where Toni-Ann Singh hails are welcoming her crowning as Miss World as...
Dusting off his red hat with white fur this Christmas and gearing up his little helpers, St Thomas’ own Santa Claus, Ricardo Burke, is set to feed hundreds of residents in his usual Yuletide food outreach programme. The project, which caters to...
With the expansive roadwork project from Harbour View to Yallahs about to begin, Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips has described as short-sighted the plans of the Government to carry out the revised proposal of the Southern Coastal Highway...
A 34-year-old woman who reported a bizarre toilet birth has denied allegations that she tried to kill the newborn. Gaysharine Whyte, of New Road in Yallahs, St Thomas, claims to have been unaware that she was pregnant and has protested her...
The shuttering of the Golden Grove factory in Duckenfield has dried up a crucial source of cash flow that kept poor families afloat, says one of the leading large-scale cane farmers in St Thomas’ sugar belt. Speaking to The Gleaner recently,...
Farmers living in the Georgia community in St Thomas have joined the parish-wide appeal to the government for better roads in their area. They explained that the deplorable condition of the thoroughfare they use to get their products to the market...
The final week in September marked the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. It also meant, for the people of St Thomas, a new dawn. The government had announced that the long-promised multimillion-dollar construction works under South Coast...
The St Thomas police are crediting what they describe as excellent community policing for the 32 per cent decrease in murders in the parish. According to a report from the police, at the end of September 2018, there was a total of 25 murders, and...
