Twenty-one-year-old Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier, Private Reneil King, fell victim to hoodlums who attacked members of the security forces in Milk River, Clarendon, late Thursday. King was part of a police-military team that was deployed...
“Gunman destroyed my life before I had a chance to dream what I would like to become,” said 38-year-old Kevin Robinson of Sevens Height in Clarendon. Robinson was 16 years old when his body was crippled by bullets that pierced his back. When...
Peta-Gay Prince frantically performed CPR on the apparently lifeless body of her eight-month-old infant, Aiden Rattray, on Wednesday morning, attempting to breathe life into the child she had borne as a New Year’s blessing. But those desperate...
The judicial recount for the Clarendon North Western constituency ended on Saturday with the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Phillip Henriques emerging as the winner over Azan. The recount ended with Henriques amassing 6,075 votes, up from an official...
Concerns have been raised over the returning officer’s account of 1,107 ballots from the September 3 election in Clarendon North Western as a judicial recount progresses in the Chapelton Family Court. The official count of votes had seen the...
As the curtains came down on a lifetime of performances from evergreen entertainer Frederick Nathaniel ‘Toots’ Hibbert on Friday, the globe mourned the passing of an icon who gave reggae music its name. Toots, 77, died at the University Hospital of...
Donald Mirander is a cut above the rest. The 2018 Miss Jamaica Golden Scissors Top Designer is among 14 Jamaicans named 2020-2021 Chevening scholars – the first Jamaican fashion designer to cop the award. Chevening is a United Kingdom-based awards...
Wilbert Allison and his cousin, Narel Allison, are farmers from Hope District in Mocho, Clarendon. The cousins share a lot in common, including home space and a fervent love for agriculture. The men, however, sit on opposite sides of the political...
‘Doba’ Miller voted for the first time in the 1972 general election when the People’s National Party (PNP) won 37 of the 53 seats in Parliament following a 78.9 per cent voter turnout. Almost five decades later, the 76-year-old PNP supporter, who...
The upsurge of coronavirus cases in Clarendon has caused a significant strain on staff and resources, says Joseph Grant, parish manager for health services. Grant revealed that other hotspots for COVID-19 were emerging in the central Jamaica parish...
Daphne Williams, a disabled vendor from Smithville in Clarendon, has lauded a team from the Community and Workers of Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union in May Pen that presented her with a sewing machine on Wednesday. Williams, whose story was...
Seven Clarendon men were listed among 101 inspirational men recently published in an online feature. The feature, dubbed ‘Men, since the beginning of time, have been critical to not only strong households but to formidable societies and cultures...
A sombre mood has engulfed the York Town family home of Corporal Duwayne Wright, who was assigned to the May Pen Police Station in Clarendon. Wright collapsed and died in May Pen on Friday on his way back from medical treatment.
Born with one hand with only a thumb, 51-year-old Daphne Williams is a picture of resilience. A former vendor, the Smithville, Clarendon resident does not allow her disability to stand in the way of her carrying out her daily tasks, including...
Concerns are mounting over the breakaway of a section of a road in the community of Suttons in Turners, Clarendon. Recently, Dr Desmond Brennan, the People’s National Party’s candidate for the North Central Clarendon constituency, took to social...
Residents of Bog Hole in Clarendon are lamenting the lack of water that is adversely affecting their lifestyle and livelihood. Predominantly sustained by farming, the residents are forced to get water from the neighbouring Fairburn community, which...
Illon Dawkins, president of the Simon Foundation Group in Simon, Clarendon, is criticising Pearnel Charles Sr, member of parliament for the North Central Clarendon constituency, for being an absentee member of parliament (MP). Dawkins claims...
GLENMUIR HIGH School in Clarendon has merged efforts with donors, locally and overseas, to assist some families affected by the novel coronavirus. The disease has infected over five million people worldwide, caused over 300,000 deaths, and has had...
Stephany Allen, Spanish teacher at the Clarendon-based Glenmuir High School, was recently named a master teacher by the National College of Educational Leadership. The title is bestowed on teachers who make an indelible impact on the profession,...
Two days after a monthlong quarantine was lifted from the central Jamaica community of Corn Piece Settlement, the family of the man who became the island’s first COVID-19 fatality is in the throes of the disease again. The victim’s 50-year-old...
DENBIGH HIGH School in Clarendon is joining in the effort to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 across the parish. Janice Julal, principal of the Jackson Street-based institution, said that the school has been utilising creative measures to engage...
Event planners’ fates now hang in the balance as the Government continues to impose restrictions on public gatherings to contain and limit the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. On March 23, Prime Minister Andrew Holness...
BUS DRIVERS and conductors traversing the May Pen to Kingston route are bemoaning a drop in business as information surfaced that a Clarendon resident was among those tested positive for the coronavirus. The bus operators claim that business is...
Stigma around residents of the rural community of Mocho, Clarendon, appeared to be receding yesterday as some taxi operators relaxed their stance on not accepting the patronage of commuters as panic spread Thursday of COVID-19 transmission to a...
Police investigators in Clarendon are probing a shooting incident in the May Pen Market that has left one man dead and another injured. The incident occurred on Saturday. Dead is Michael Miller also known as 'Ratler' and '...
