PRINCIPAL OF Marcus Garvey Technical High School, Anniona Jones, urged parents of Primary Exit Profile (PEP) students to teach their children how to be good citizens. As guest speaker at Moon Palace Foundation’s annual PEP Grant Presentation and...
PRINCIPAL OF the Windsor Basic School in St Ann’s Bay, Deborah Reid-Brown, is today expressing delight that a back-to-school treat and health fair were held at her school on Saturday, preparing her students for the new school term beginning next...
JAMAICAN AUTHOR Hortense M. Jenkins launched her latest book, Bellinda Bell, last Saturday at Tiki Tail restaurant in Richmond, St Ann, to an appreciative audience. Jenkins’ sixth book, Products from Under the Old Naseberry Tree, which was...
WITH A mission to ensure beach access to all Jamaicans, the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement (JaBBEM) was launched on Saturday at the Buckfield playing field in Ocho Rios, St Ann, with support from stakeholders who were in a militant...
TEACHERS FROM 22 schools at various levels of the education system from St Ann are completing the Great Shape! Inc’s Teach the Teachers programme, currently under way at the Ocho Rios High School. Brad Adams, founder and one of the co-directors of...
JAMAICA WILL host Barbados in a game of blind cricket on Monday at the Discovery Bauxite’s Port Rhoades Sports Club in Discovery Bay, St Ann, beginning at 10 a.m. “The match is one leg of an all-island tour arranged by the Jamaica Visually Impaired...
FOR YET another year, philanthropist Ian Clough has brightened the lives of several children attending Exchange All-Age School in St Ann, along with their parents. After last year’s profound statement to The Gleaner that “life isn’t worth living if...
When Nicola Hamilton formed the Rural Women’s Developing Organization (RWDO) several years ago, to address some of the needs of women in St Ann, St Mary, and Portland, representational politics was not on her agenda. But thrust into the arena, she...
Nicola Hamilton has been confirmed as the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for the Ocho Rios division in the next local government election. Hamilton was presented at the Ocho Rios Division’s annual conference held recently at the Ocho Rios...
St Ann’s Lime Hall Community Club advanced to the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) after a 4-3 penalty shoot-out victory over St Catherine’s Racing United at Drax Hall yesterday in their Jamaica Football Federation National Tier II second leg semifinal...
Dr Dayton Campbell, general secretary of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP), has blasted the performance of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as government. Speaking at the Ocho Rios divisional conference on Friday night at the Ocho Rios...
Incorporated in 2012, the New York, USA-based Mallskape e-commerce platform is seeking to expand its reach in Jamaica and the Caribbean, in anticipation of a growth in entrepreneurs as of next year. In January 2022 when a Jamaican television...
On Emancipation Day, Tuesday, August 1, Ayoka Davis, the Miss St Ann Festival Queen for 2023, is hoping to get the best birthday gift ever – the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen crown. For supporters, it would be a fitting tribute for the 25th birthday...
THE DRUM corps division of the St Mary High School Cadets got a huge boost on Thursday when a group of past cadets of the school presented their alma mater with instruments valued at over $1 million. The handover took place at the school, with...
THE MEN’S Health Fair hosted by the Jamaica Cancer Society St Ann St Mary Branch and North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) last Sunday in Ocho Rios saw an increase in the number of men examined for prostate cancer, compared to the 2022 event...
Browns Town High School in St Ann has had a rich legacy in music, from having the top school band in St Ann in years gone by, which has produced the likes of Digicel Rising Stars winner for 2018, Tasha Gay Solomon, and Celicia Ellis, who finished...
The St Ann Cricket Association is seeking to ensure that female cricketers at the primary school level get some amount of exposure by ruling that teams in the primary schools 20-over competition must field a female player or play one short. There...
HAVING BEEN in Western St Mary for close to two decades and not seen political representatives effect fixes that he believes the constituency needs, educator Errol Bascoe, nicknamed ‘Di Teacha’, is seeking to be a change agent as he aspires to...
IN HER own words, 52-year-old Winsome Reid of McNie district in south western St Ann, “struggled along the way to raise my (seven) kids” but has never given up hope that there would be a brighter day. In her younger days, she was forced to drop out...
Jamaica must increase water harvesting and make use of solar energy if the country’s agricultural sector is to perform at the level stakeholders wish to see, a bauxite official has warned the ministry of Agriculture. Kent Skyers, community...
As residents of Epworth district in southeast St Ann warmly welcomed the long-awaited rehabilitation and opening of its main road by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday, April 21, one special resident was absent. Centenarian Solomon Emanuel...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ravaged by fire in February 2018, the 185-year-old St Ann’s Bay Methodist Church is now being targeted by robbers, who have broken into the building on several occasions in recent times, even as the church works to repair the fire...
THE TRAINING of educators in the new concept of positive discipline is gaining momentum, with over 50 teachers from 21 schools across Jamaica completing a one-day workshop on the topic at the Eltham Training Centre in St Ann on Wednesday....
PRINCIPAL OF Aabuthnott Gallimore High School in Alexandria, St Ann, Eloise Panton, says the school is back on track to producing musical excellence after a donation of some much-needed equipment, courtesy of Kaeru Studio, a reggae recording studio...
The Retreat Health Centre in St Mary is to be relocated as of March 27 for five months in order to facilitate renovation work on the facility, according to the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA). The clinic will be housed temporarily in...
