For yet another year, the Jamaica Ex-Police Association of South Florida has returned to the island to assist in several areas of the society as part of its annual outreach project.This year, the team of around 30 former cops spent time in St Ann,...
Fifteen brilliant and selfless Jamaicans from the county of Middlesex, some with heart warming tales of overcoming their struggles to achieve their goals, last Thursday received the 2018 Governor General's Achievement Awards at a ceremony at the...
Gospel singer Kevin Downswell will head a list of gospel artistes who are slated to perform at the Jamaica Cancer Society St Ann and St Mary Branch's Relay for Life at Turtle River Park, Ocho Rios, St Ann today.St Ann gospel artistes Gospel Head...
Well-thinking St Mary resident Cheridah Wilson initiated the Amiri Raja Takemoto Hamilton Scholarship last year to assist high-school students in the parish who are in need of such assistance.Named for his grandson, Amiri, the scholarship was...
When Sashawn Hall of Ocho Rios Primary School begins classes at Holy Childhood High in September, she wants better grades than the 92 per cent average she got in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).Hall got scores of 96 per cent in mathematics, 94...
St Ann's Bay Primary School's head girl, Cassandra Davy, and head boy, Rashard Dennis, did extremely well in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), with near perfect averages in the five subject areas.Cassandra, who will attend St Hilda's Diocesan...
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw has urged employers to focus more on helping to develop their employees in order to increase productivity in the workplace.Addressing the 36th annual Business and Workplace...
Dr Myrna Hague-Bradshaw, organiser of the Jamaica Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival and Franklyn D Resort (FDR) in Runaway Bay, St Ann, may have discovered a partnership - sweet jazz music and appetising cuisine. That was the order of the day as...
"God bless you."That's one of the favourite sayings of Reverend Charles J Barrett. And whereas he loves to proclaim blessings on others, the outpouring of love and affection on the occasion of his 99th birthday last Saturday, in Brooklyn, New York,...
The St Ann's Bay Infant School on Wednesday benefited to the tune of $3.5 million worth of repairs as one of the National Labour Day projects.Representatives of several government and non-governmental organisations turned out to assist with building...
A simple album launch by Ocho Rios gospel singer Prince Hall has blossomed into a fundraising event to build a home for an indigent community member.The launch of Hall's album, We Believe, is now set as a concert and scheduled for Father's Day, June...
It has been a difficult period for educational psychologist Trudean Scott-Elliott.After losing her daughter, Elianah, at just three months old, to a condition known as patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), Scott-Elliott's world was plunged into chaos.But...
There's not a kinder soul than Andrea 'Peggy' Lawrence, it seems. And if we're to go by 2 Corinthians, then God loves her because she gives everything with a cheerful spirit.Hailed recently for her community involvement by her employers, Jewel Dunn'...
Sunday's second monthly instalment of Music and Comedy at Oceans 11 in Ocho Rios St Ann was worth going the miles to see.Following last month's first staging that featured St Mary trio, Exhale, and comedian Lemon, this month featured Peter Lloyd and...
The Ocho Rios Post Office has been closed for major infrastructural work and all its services transferred to shop #26, Ocean Village Shopping Centre, situated on premises located across the road from the post office.Kathy-Ann Yetman, public...
Without even knowing it, customers of Blingers in Ocho Rios are supporting children from a wide cross section of Jamaica by contributing to their well-being in several ways.That's because proprietor Mark Pai donates part of the proceeds from...
Some 25 shop operators at the renovated Ocho Rios Fishing Village, which will be opened near the end of April, have been trained in business skills in several sessions organised by the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ).Institutions such as the Jamaica...
Ten male students from the St Ann's Bay Primary School have benefited from training in sift skills, thanks to the Children of Our Village Project, an ongoing partnership between the St Ann Homecoming Foundation and HEART Trust/NTA - Employment...
Regarded as a strict but good man, George Theophilus Linton died the day before his 77th birthday, and for granddaughter, Susan Gordon-Pryce, it was hard to take.Not just because they were looking forward to a birthday celebration, but because of...
ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann:After being rebuilt following destruction by fire in the late 19th century, the Methodist Church in Jamaica has again committed to rebuilding the St Ann's Bay Church, which was gutted by fire on Tuesday morning.The building and...
Established on Emancipation Day, August 1, 1838 and later to become the childhood church of National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the St Ann's Bay Methodist Church was gutted by fire early yesterday morning, leaving losses valued at millions of...
Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte has urged new Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) recruits to be courageous and to abide by the core principles of the JDF, which include discipline, integrity, honour, commitment, and loyalty.Malahoo Forte was...
Young entrepreneurs Nakeita Mullings and Daderia Dunn have teamed up to offer Ocho Rios and its environs a service that they believe is needed in that resort town.Flash Errand Services has opened its doors at Soni's Plaza, Main Street, Ocho Rios, to...
This pastor plays the piano. That's good, but who cares? Hardly anyone, it seems. What people are really talking about is that this pastor is now a lawyer.Seventh-day Adventist pastor, Omar Oliphant, who is in charge of the Salem Pastoral District...
Solomon Higgins was born on December 24, 1912.He can't quite remember the year this incident happened, but one morning he woke up and couldn't get out of bed. He could not walk.Born and raised in Epworth, St Ann, Higgins worked as a carpenter in his...
