The perfect Christmas is how Violet Johnson described the moment she was handed the keys to a three-bedroom house in Comfort Hall on Friday. The home was constructed under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), a component of the Housing,...
The family of crash victim Dahomie Ford is blaming deplorable road conditions for Saturday’s fatal collision along the Milk River main thoroughfare in Clarendon. Reports are that about 1:30 p.m., the 24-year-old was driving a Yeng Yeng motorcycle...
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has expressed disappointment that the $100 million raised by the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation (SMADF) from a 2018 benefit concert in aid of Jamaica’s only paediatric hospital is still in limbo. The...
When the Chapelton Community Hospital was shuttered three years ago, 67-year-old Pancheta Russell rued having to seek care 19km (11.8 miles) away in the Clarendon capital of May Pen. But her ties to Chapelton are beyond mere sentimentality, as she...
Farmers are expecting to reap great benefits from the soil doctor programme which was launched by the Agricultural Land Management Division (ALMD) within the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The event was held at the Ebony Park Heart Academy...
Fifty-eight-year-old artist Jeffrey Perry is on a mission to paint a more colourful narrative of the art industry. Perry said he is perturbed by what he described as a “starving artist culture” in Jamaica. According to him, for decades the field...
Melissa Andrea Preddie has channelled her love for the environment and sustainable living into a eco-friendly business. Preddie is the owner of Aviola Accessories, a brand that supplies handmade jewellery, paintings and home décor pieces from her...
Fourteen-year-old Sydney Wong is not only baking up sweet treats, but she is also displaying her literary prowess through her cookie business. Wong is the owner of Sugar Gone Wong – a Kingston-based cookie business. She was among some 35...
Discrepancies with records are being blamed for the disruption of the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) lunch programme at the Edwin Allen High School in Clarendon. That is according to Barrington Richardson, regional...
Twenty-three-year-old Camese Wright’s childhood dream blossomed into reality on November 11 when she graduated from the University of Technology, Jamaica with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree – a path she took with her mother’s encouragement. It was a...
Streets across Clarendon were painted green on Sunday as hundreds of bell-tolling Labourites congregated before venturing off to the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) 79th annual conference at the National Arena in St Andrew. Scores of supporters, clad...
People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has slammed Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Area Council Two Chairman Everald Warmington for controversial racial comments, arguing that Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s electability...
Seventy-two-year-old People’s National Party (PNP) councillor candidate Clement Lewis has vowed to make history in the next local government elections when he is voted in as councillor for the Rocky Point division in Clarendon South Eastern. Lewis...
Six months of disaster and pain is how Jameal Mendez Sr describes the uncertainties surrounding the whereabouts of his two-year-old son, Jameal Jr, who has been missing since May 12.
A SENIOR medical doctor is blaming a surge in children seeking treatment for “eye problems” on the increased use of digital devices. Dr Gavin Henry, consultant ophthalmologist and head of the ophthalmology department at the Mandeville Regional...
“Don’t be collectors of titles,” charged Attorney-at-Law Peter Champagnie, who was addressing 46 new justices of the peace at the Justices of the Peace Commissioning Ceremony in Manchester last Thursday. The ceremony, hosted at Church Teachers’...
Seven persons who were charged in connection with a $100-million ganja bust in Clarendon were granted bail when they appeared before the Clarendon Parish Court on Monday. The seven – six men and one woman – were taken into custody after the police...
CONSTITUENTS IN Manchester Southern have expressed their dissatisfaction with the performance of Member of Parliament Robert Chin, labelling him as an absentee representative. One resident, who declined to be named, said: “Chin is 95 per cent...
Block manufacturer Winsome Palmer is just as shell-shocked as residents of the central Clarendon community of Woods who watched helplessly as the denuded main road and fallen trees bowed to the wrath of raging floodwaters last Friday. Days after...
“I am still in pain,” said 39-year-old taxi operator Jermaine Cunningham, the man at the centre of a controversial video who was allegedly beaten by the police over traffic breaches in Christiana, Manchester, on Wednesday. Cunningham, who began...
The discovery of the decomposing body of 74-year-old Clifton Chambers in bushes near his home in Silent Hill, Manchester, on Tuesday sent shock waves throughout the rural district. Chambers, who was visually impaired, reportedly went missing on...
Constituents in Clarendon North Western allegedly defaced the office of Member of Parliament Phillip Henriques, reportedly evidence of growing dissatisfaction with the performance of the first-term lawmaker. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) newcomer...
Residents in at least two flood-prone areas in southeastern Clarendon believe they are prepared to withstand the snares of a tropical storm predicted to pass south of Jamaica by Sunday. The Meteorological Service said on Friday that Jamaica and its...
The commissioning of the Red Mud and Post/Pond Road pipeline replacement project in Wood Hall, Clarendon, has reignited the hopes of residents, many of whom did not have running water for decades. The commissioning was done by Senator Matthew...
A Manchester councillor has suggested that had streetlights in his division been speedily repaired by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), gunmen would have possibly been deterred from killing a security guard at a gas station in Chudleigh on...
