The nightmare scenario of going to bed and waking up each day with a feeling of hopelessness and the increased possibility of dying any minute by the bullet has become the harsh reality for some residents of Gregory Park in Portmore, St Catherine,...
While residents of the Glengoffe hometown of alleged Montego Bay cult leader Kevin O. Smith expressed outrage at the reported death ritual that transpired at his Pathways International church last Sunday, family members say they will stick by him...
After experiencing a near-death experience when his car plunged into the Rio Cobre after it blew a tyre and he was saved by the heroic efforts of Flat Bridge divers on May 8, Jermaine Scott has reciprocated. On Saturday, joined by his sister...
With the Government focused on delivering 70,000 housing solutions in five years under its private-public sector cooperation initiative, four developments in St Catherine are on course to provide more than 3,000 units. Housing, Urban Renewal,...
Despite pilot projects instituted by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to stem the illegal extraction of electricity, the problem still continues to haunt the company. According to the JPS, in July of 2014 when the electricity regularisation...
The incidence of electricity theft among mainly poor inner-city and squatter communities has been diagnosed as a deep cultural crisis that cannot be addressed by technology alone. That is the view of Anthony Clayton, Alcan professor of Caribbean...
The Portmore Climate Change Park, an ambitious joint-venture project between the city of Hagen in Germany and the Portmore municipality which started in 2016 and should have been completed in 2018, has hit a snag. However, Portmore Mayor Leon...
Despite it being a no-movement day due to the pandemic, a number of residents packed up and made hasty retreats from of a section of Eleven Miles in Bull Bay, St Thomas, out of fear of reprisal shootings after two murders in the area early Sunday...
Sunday’s dramatic stand-off between the police and an angry crowd, and an enraged 69-year-old man accused of abusing his adult son, serves as a wake-up call that sufficient staffing and other resources must be pumped into mental-health care, a...
Sidelined former People’s National Party (PNP) parliamentarian Kern Spencer has chastised dissident members for sowing discord in the beleaguered political movement. He has also urged rival factions to stop inflicting wounds and accept that they...
The St Catherine Health Department has said that it is unable to pursue enforcement measures to have a decade-old problem of raw sewage flowing from manholes in the middle of some streets in New Works housing scheme as there are no responsible...
VACCINE HESITANCY and preference are rife in St Elizabeth, forcing health officials to embark on public education campaigns to encourage more persons to take the available vaccine. Health officials have disclosed that there is evidence of a...
A mystery disease causing their watermelons to rot on the inside while appearing perfect on the outside, has caused several St Elizabeth farmers to halt cultivation of the fruit to stem mounting financial losses. The farmers said that at first,...
The family of 23-year-old Kevon McCloud is still in disbelief at his shooting death in the Gordon Wood community of Church Pen, St Catherine, on Saturday evening. McCloud, who worked as an animal feed delivery man, was helping a neighbour in the...
The launch of an initiative by the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS) to promote the vaccination of operators of public transportation has been met with sharp resistance by the majority of taxi operators in Linstead. TODSS...
The circumstances surrounding the murder of a 21-year-old Linstead man as he reportedly made his way home from work are questionable. The Linstead police say they are yet to establish a motive for the shooting death of Asshi Johnson of a Rosemount...
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has appointed the Reverend Phillip Kermitt Johnson to act as custos for St Catherine as the Reverend Jeffery McKenzie has reached the age of retirement. The 46-year-old Johnson, who founded Fingers From the Heart...
Michael Shaw knows that cesspool crews flirt with danger and death every time they descend the ladder into the deep and dark belly of septic tanks. And as he reflected on last week’s tragic deaths of three cesspool labourers, presumably from...
AS EFFORTS to unite warring factions in the St Andrew Eastern constituency continue to unfold, the citizens’ associations in five communities have embarked on an ambitious ‘Tourist in Every Yard’ project to be rolled out on August 1, 2022. The...
Three distinguished justices of the peace (JPs) representing Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey, were among more than a dozen honoured with the Golden Scale Award on August 28. The county honourees were Howard Deers, Florizel Allen and Michael Reid....
The issue of Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity for students who have to do online classes in some rural St Catherine communities has been a challenge since the onset of the coronavirus in Jamaica that forced the discontinuation of face-to-face...
Soaring coronavirus infections in the southwestern parish of St Elizabeth are a cause for concern for healthcare officials, with new cases rising 43 per cent over the last month. Parish manager for health services, Sean Brissett has forecast tough...
Chronic renal failure is a major public health problem in Jamaica, and this is placing added financial burden on the healthcare sector as well as on the growing number of patients who need care. Professor Emeritus of Nephrology at The University of...
A group of anti-vaxxers from the United Independent Congress (UIC), Jamaica’s third registered political party, staged a demonstration in Spanish Town, St Catherine, last Saturday. The group is demanding that the Andrew Holness administration halt...
Residents of Cuffies Pen and surrounding districts in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, have not had water running in their pipes for more than seven years and are now fed up with having to live without the precious commodity. According to the them, their...
