MOORE TOWN, Portland: Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons in Portland, Wallace Sterling, is calling for dialogue and consultation between the Maroon community in Jamaica and the Government to resolve ongoing and long-standing issues affecting...
With more than 40 acres of fully grown banana and plantain crops ravaged by Tropical Storm Grace, two farmers in the neighbouring parishes of Portland and St Mary are now reeling from their losses. The damage caused by the tropical storm was quite...
PORT ANTONIO: Portlanders turned out in large numbers on day four of the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ vaccination blitz aimed at inoculating as many persons as possible, including students, as a safeguard against the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic....
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Mayor of Port Antonio Paul Thompson is expressing deep concern over the steady increase in COVID-19 cases in Portland, which is threatening the dormant period that the parish once experienced. Thompson, who is also...
BUFF BAY: Four Haitian fishermen who landed in Buff Bay on Tuesday were severely dehydrated and appeared to be malnourished, the Portland police have reported. The men are being treated and held at an undisclosed facility in the parish. Portland...
St Margaret’s Bay, Portland: With her heart beating rapidly and tears flowing down her cheeks, Annmarie Bryan, daughter of 60-year-old farmer Cynthia Hinds described her painful ordeal in removing her mother’s burnt body from a hut yesterday in St...
Moore Town, Portland: Moore Town Basic School in the Rio Grande Valley of eastern Portland, which had fallen into a state of disrepair, has been renovated through the efforts of a kind individual. The school, which was leaking profusely from its...
A new transportation centre to be built in Port Antonio, is expected to ease traffic congestion and provide adequate parking for public passenger vehicles plying the easterly and westerly route in Portland. Last Thursday, a team from the Factories...
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Informal settlers occupying lands at Bryan’s Bay and at the old marina in Port Antonio, Portland, are fearful that their lives and property will be under serious threat in the event of a hurricane, or during persistent...
Constituents of Portland Eastern are clamouring for the naming of standard-bearers to fill the power vacuum in the Fellowship and Fairy Hill municipal divisions since the deaths of councillors Irvin Brown and Derron Wood, respectively. Residents of...
BUFF BAY, Portland: A murder suspect who fled St Lucia after allegedly killing a man was captured in Portland by the police during a raid conducted on Sunday in Buff Bay. Police authorities in St Lucia have revealed that 27-year-old Jamaican...
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Relief agencies in Portland are now bracing for an influx of Haitian boat people arriving in the northeastern parish following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise and fears that the political turmoil in the CARICOM...
West Retreat, Portland: A teenager is dead while a man is now battling for life at the Port Antonio Hospital following a horrific three-vehicle accident along the West Retreat main road in Portland shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday. The deceased,...
BOUNDBROOK, Portland: People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding on Wednesday chided East Portland Member of Parliament (MP) Ann-Marie Vaz for what he described as her deafening silence on the spate of murders plaguing the once-peaceful...
Annotto Bay, St. Mary: Describing the Annotto Bay area in St Mary as vulnerable to flooding and other disasters, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie is warning residents to be on the alert and to brace for unfavourable weather conditions,...
Orange Bay, Portland: The Portland police are probing a suspected case of murder after the partially burnt body of a middle-age woman of Orange Bay in the parish was found with what appeared to be stab wounds. The body of the 54-year-old woman,...
LENNOX, Portland: Ten Portland farmers were handed lease agreements for lands located at Lennox in Portland on Wednesday during the official opening ceremony of the production zones by the Ministry of Agriculture. The production zones were...
ELLIOT, St Mary: A worried and frustrated Navia Gibode is hoping to secure enough funds soon to have her seven-year-old daughter, Rickeisha Grant, whose physical state deteriorates daily, undergo medical intervention. Gibode, who recalls giving...
When young men from Palmetto Grove in St Mary started jumping off a bridge, plunging approximately 80 feet into the river below, they had no idea that their show of skill would attract the attention of Christopher Samuda, president of the Jamaica...
The Portland police seized roughly 7412lb of ganja valued at $17 million at a beach at Bryan’s Bay in the parish on Wednesday night. Acting on information, the cops swooped down on the location occupied by fisherfolk shortly after 9 p.m. and found...
Portland: A Jamaican student in the United States, Audley Lindo has been conferred with a Master of Architecture degree from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). Lindo, who hails from Port Antonio, Portland, is a graduate of...
St Margaret’s Bay, Portland Not even the travel advisory issued to persons from the United States (US), which stated that Jamaica is a high-risk country plagued by crime, could prevent Alene Ricketts-Gilzean from returning to the tropical island to...
BUFF BAY, Portland: Portland businessman Joel Dyke is lamenting the disregard citizens have for a railway tunnel in Buff Bay, calling on residents to desist from dumping garbage there and for the State to recognise it as a heritage site and...
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: A visually impaired 65-year-old man, who was given marching orders from the Port Antonio Hospital to free up bed space after spending two months there, has been left hopeless, frustrated and virtually abandoned. Michael...
BLACK ROCK, Portland: It was close to eight months that Tony hadn’t seen his aunt, Isolyn Christie. As he surveyed the fire-ravaged concrete home in which the 88-year-old perished, Tony appeared to rue having not visited her more often before he...
