"MOST OF our residents are mentally challenged or socially displaced, meaning they have no one to take care of them. Most of them are elderly, with no children around. The youngest person is in his 30s, so it's not really a young population," registered nurse, Avie-Ann Laing, of the St Mary Infirmary, told The Gleaner during a recent visit to the institution.
LAST WEEK Saturday, in a story headlined, 'Lukewarm marketing - fever grass industry suffers from lack of promotion', we wrote about the frustration that some potential fever grass farmers, and present cultivators, were having with the seeming failure of Marketech, a subsidiary of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), to promote the establishment of a Jamaican fever grass industry.
ON THE HEELS of being nominated for the International Renewable Energy Project for 2010, Jamaica's first green community, the Richmond Housing Development (RDC) in St Ann, was officially launched on Saturday, September 17, with Housing Minister Dr Horace Chang calling for other developers to follow RDC's chairman Lee Issa's example.
FISH VENDORS at the Port Maria Market are now plying their trade along the roadway in that town after being forced on to the streets as a result of the deplorable state of the facility.
BUS AND taxi operators are appealing to the St Mary Parish Council and the police to be transparent in their operations and policy decisions which have allowed some operators to breach the law unmolested.