The St Mary-based Elliott Farmers Community Enterprise (EFCE) launched its greenhouse project last month, signalling a boost to productivity in the Cromwell Land area of the parish. The project, sponsored by the Special Climate Change Adaptation...
Kiwanis International Division 24, which launched a project last December to build security posts at four primary schools, has started the second such facility at Brown’s Town Infant School in St Ann. According to lieutenant governor of the...
Tacky High School in Gayle, St Mary has received a new, state-of-the-art surveillance system to replace the one that was destroyed when fire damaged a section of the school in 2014. Director of Moulton Surveillance and Security Services, Everol...
Flow has reached out to disgruntled St Mary customers by attending the parish’s Chamber of Commerce, Agriculture and Industry monthly meeting at the Casa Maria Hotel to hear their grouses and offer solutions. Late last year, Chamber President...
PORT MARIA, St Mary: Telecommunications company F low Jamaica has reached out to disgruntled St Mary customers by attending the parish’s Chamber of Commerce, Agriculture and Industry monthly meeting to hear their grouses and offer solutions. Late...
Tacky High School in Gayle, St Mary, has received a new, state-of-the-art surveillance system to replace the one that was destroyed when fire damaged a section of the school in 2014. Director of Moulton Surveillance and Security Services, Everol...
Psychiatric nursing aides in the parishes of St Mary, St Ann, and Portland have returned to work after intervention from the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA). In a press statement on Monday evening, NERHA said the workers involved in...
A certified-ready Liberty Hill Infant School was officially opened in Dumbarton, St Ann, last week Wednesday, with Education Minister Ruel Reid announcing that for the first time, the Government has allocated $346 million to the early childhood...
Paggee Beach in Port Maria, St Mary, was the location where the National Youth Council of Jamaica (NYCJ) launched its GreenPath Initiative recently, as it aims to rid the environment of millions of plastic bottles it is now polluted with. Over 2,...
ORACABESSA, St Mary: Spurred by its success in winning the Ministry of Education’s Region Two grade four level mathematics championship last year, the Oracabessa Primary School has started a math club that seeks to encourage even greater...
Patrick 'Tony Rebel' Barrett, whose Rebel Salute show has been sponsored over the years by Jewel Resorts and Hilton Rose Hall, was awarded the Key to the Resorts at the show's international media launch at Jewel Dunn's River on Wednesday night....
Two indigents in St Ann on Friday (January 4) got the furnished houses they were promised by Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie after a delay in the arrivalof furniture prevented their handover before Christmas...
The Jamaica Egg Farmers Association is reporting a $4.2-million operating loss for 2018, after another year of General Consumption Tax (GCT) and a mid-year glut which pushed prices below production costs.In his report at the association's annual...
ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann:Residents in the Charles Town, Windsor Heights, and St Ann's Bay areas in St Ann are being urged to prepare bulky waste items, such as old refrigerators, stoves, tyres and other items, that may be breeding sites for mosquitoes...
ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann:The monthly meeting of the St Ann Municipal Corporation ended in chaos shortly before noon on Thursday amid claims and counterclaims that funds were misappropriated during December.People's National Party (PNP) councillor for...
President of the St Mary Chamber of Commerce, Frederick Young, is hailing 2018 as a positive year for the parish, even while admitting that there are still concerns by his business group."It has been a positive year, with some concerns," Young told...
The construction of a community centre in Wild Cane district in St Ann South West, which started several years ago, might finally be completed in the first quarter of this year.Councillor for the Borobridge division in the St Ann Municipal...
Several community groups in Discovery Bay, St Ann, are expressing concern over two men who have occupied an open lot next to the library along Main Street in that town, over an extended period.Frustrated residents have told The Gleaner that for both...
At only 17 years old, Alex Panton has seemingly stepped out of the shadows of his renowned mom and dad, Lisa Hanna and David Panton, and even while still immersing himself in his studies, has found time to help the community.Panton has formed...
HIGHGATE, St Mary:It was a novel idea when, five years ago, then sixth-form student at Marymount High School, Shevonae Murphy, came up with the idea of students treating the needy at Christmastime in communities adjacent to the school, which is...
The Ocho Rios Drop-In Centre, which opened in May and has been instrumental in assisting several homeless persons with meals and shower facilities, held its first Christmas treat on Monday evening in the resort town.Dozens of persons, mostly those...
PORT MARIA, St Mary:Mayor of Port Maria Richard Creary is showing a heart this Christmas. Creary says he has applied to the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) to be part of the Take a Child Home for Christmas programme, and hopes...
Last year, the inaugural eight-a-side football competition that is the Galina Community Corner League attracted 12 teams. This year, for the competition that kicked off on December 2 at the Galina Primary School playing field, 20 teams will...
Scores of children and adults turned up at the Island Village Shopping Centre on Friday night for the annual 'Christmas at the Village' charity event presented jointly by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) St Ann Chapter and the St Ann...
Six trainees in the Universal Service Fund's (USF) Technology Advancement Programme (TAP) 1000 initiative turned out last Thursday to volunteer in fixing up the St Mary Infirmary in Port Maria.The six are part of the USF's programme to train 1,000...
