As the second weekend of lockdown looms, some small business owners in May Pen, Clarendon are criticising the move by the government, and bemoaning a myriad of losses that they claimed they have suffered. “This doesn’t feel like prosperity at all,...
Seven people are to face court in Clarendon next month for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act. They were arrested by the Milk River Police in southern Clarendon for disobeying the curfew order, which took effect at noon yesterday....
Eleven years of distress finally came to an end on Tuesday for a 41-year-old mother of five. Evadney Johnson, a single mother of Anderson Town in northern Clarendon, was gifted a two-bedroom home, sponsored by Food For the Poor and BOOM energy...
Sixteen-year-old Ledira Fearon and her team are geared at making an impact on the lives of children, especially those plagued by mental health issues across Clarendon. The team is expected to launch an organisation mandated to offer support to...
Eighty-one-year-old retired nurse Herma Bryant-Manning was among those stepping forward for her first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine for protection from the deadly coronavirus at the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon yesterday. “I have seen what is...
Seven months after a coronavirus quarantine was imposed on Sandy Bay, residents of the southeast Clarendon community say they are still haunted by memories of the stigma. That has been one of the grim undercurrents of COVID-19, the disease that was...
Clarendon artist Delroy Millwood ended Black History Month with the launch of his painting series, dubbed ‘Delroy Paints Jamaica’. The series entails Millwood capturing various historic parish sites through art. To date, Millwood has painted...
It seems a not completely unfamiliar case of Jamaican police work not being able to keep up with the organisation of international criminal minds, as Dr Horace Chang, minister of national security, has had to admit that the country was bested by...
The occupants of a deregistered plane that crash-landed on a Rocky Point beach in January have reportedly fled the country, and the Government has given the clearest indication that the aircraft was on a smuggling mission. The plane had intended to...
Despite a flare-up of shootings and firebombing attacks in some Clarendon communities recently, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has said that the Government will not yield to calls to establish a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in the...
Fifty-five-year-old farmer, Dwayne Richards of Crooked River in Clarendon has been charged with the February 15 murder of 61-year-old Sharon Cole of McDonald District, also in Crooked River. The police report that the incident...
Goalkeeper for the senior men’s football team and former Reggae Boyz captain, Andre Blake, has kicked his way on to the entrepreneurial field. On February 6, the 30-year-old launched his business, Blake’s Kickout Sports Bar and Lounge at the newly...
Armed men threw a Molotov cocktail through a window to flush 80-year-old retired mason Clifton Berry from his Rhymesbury home in Clarendon then shot him dead as he tried to escape on Wednesday night. It is the latest in a string of such attacks...
Daphne Williams, a disabled woman whose story of resourcefulness and ambition drew praise and charity last summer, has launched a children’s outreach foundation geared at assisting the needy in her hometown of Smithville. The independent-minded 51...
Vere Technical High School in Clarendon benefited from a US$12,000 boost to the institution’s poultry project. The donation, courtesy of the Vere Technical High Global Alumni, was handed over to the principal last Thursday. The poultry project has...
Summerfield, Clarendon, resident Lincoln Gordon is hoping for a break as one of leading food processors in Jamaica, with high hopes for his small agro-processing facility, which produces cassava flour, teas, powdered seasoning, sauces, and...
A Clarendon family is livid. This after the body of their relative was found in a dirt track in Denbigh, Clarendon, on Monday. The shirtless body of 55-year-old William Palmer, a watchman of Thompson Town in the parish, was found by passers-by...
Tiresome and frustrating is how principal Donna Hall describes the latest invasion by thieves at the Midland Preparatory School in Mineral Heights, Clarendon, last Wednesday. According to Hall, the 50-year-old institution has been a regular target...
When placard-bearing residents of Rocky Point mounted an angry protest against a police detention three days after a mystery plane crash-landed on January 23, it was a flash point that elevated a little-known Clarendon power broker to a national...
Fourteen small business operators of Treadlight in Clarendon benefited from $2.2 million worth of equipment to enhance their businesses, courtesy of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The grant-award ceremony was held at the Versalles Hotel...
For Whitewood Hole resident Nevardo Hudson, the Rio Minho is a source of food and, recreation, and ideal for domestic purposes. But like the streams of the river, bad memories run for the now 28-year-old, whose father drowned in the river near...
Sixty-five-year-old Earlston Seaton has called the rural, farming community of Suttons in northern Clarendon home for 63 years. The sexagenarian, like many other residents, uses the Oaks and Rio Minho rivers for daily chores. Seaton, who plighs...
There was a double murder in the community of Race Track on the outskirts of May Pen in Clarendon early this morning. Dead are 55-year-old Careen Walters, otherwise called ‘Paula’, a security guard; and a man known only as...
Mayor of May Pen and councillor for the Rocky Point Division in Clarendon, Winston Maragh, has renewed a call for the establishment of police posts in the area. Speaking against the background of Saturday evening's crash-landing of a...
The police say they are looking for two men who, residents informed them, were assisted from the plane that crash-landed on White Sand Beach in Rocky Point, Clarendon yesterday evening. The men, who appeared Caucasian,...
