As normality returns with the retreat of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Education Minister Fayval Williams has said that all must be done to encourage attendance as more schools engage in face-to-face classes. Full in-person engagement...
Scores of members from the New Testament Episcopal Zion Church in Bog Walk, St Catherine, put down their Bibles temporarily and armed themselves with hot meals to feed the less fortunate who occupy the streets. The group carries out the initiative...
Seventeen-year-old Guy’s Hill High student Ashanti Walters said she is prepared to help bolster Jamaica’s food security capacity and to encourage greater involvement of youth in agriculture. Walters is one of three students who finished in the...
Residents of Buxton Town, Wakefield, are mourning the brutal predawn attack on a couple in which a woman was hacked to death and her partner wounded. Dead is Madeline O’Sullivan, otherwise called ‘Mumus’, a 63-year-old labourer of the St Catherine...
In the wake of a fatal crash near Linstead, St Catherine, on Saturday, the police have warned pedestrians not to trespass on toll roads. Audley Gordon, the executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), is the subject...
There are growing concerns about recent spates of gun violence in Old Harbour, St Catherine. “I am shocked to have gunmen attacking and shooting people,” Nathaniel Tennison, a resident said. “Yes, it wasn’t perfect. Little wounding or even...
The operations at the 105-year-old Riversdale Health Centre in St Catherine have been strengthened under the Adopt-A-Clinic programme. It was made possible by members of the diaspora based in Florida, USA. Jamaica’s consul general in Miami, Oliver...
Eighty-two-year-old Miriam Moore was thrilled to be among scores of residents who turned out in Linstead, St Catherine, at the Sky’s the Limit Foundation Inc treat on January 15. “I am feeling very happy for the bag of grocery, as the lickle money...
Eighteen-year-old Nickannebre Adman was honoured as the most outstanding student for Unit One of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations at Jose Marti Technical High School’s 45th awards ceremony. Adman, who resides in Patrick City, St...
A senior clergyman has rebuked Christian believers for making themselves gullible to the influence of now-deceased pastor, Kevin O. Smith, after a bizarre church ritual in which two members were murdered and a third fatally shot by the police. The...
Clients of Regions Financial Services were showered with early Christmas gifts last weekend as the company sought to bring holiday cheer to many of its faithful customers. The distribution of packages and money offered welcome relief to recipients...
Days after the suspected suicide of a teenage girl, her family and the greater McCooks Pen community in St Catherine are still in shock and disbelief at the tragedy. The family home has been shrouded in sadness since 14-year-old Rihanna Campbell...
Evergreen Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is urging sportswomen to continue to advocate for gender equaity in track and field and other disciplines and not be overshadowed by male dominance. Fraser-Pryce, 34, has caught a second wind...
The students, teachers, and staff of Waterford Primary School in St Catherine enjoyed cheer and blessings of the Yuletide season with the establishment of a Christmas village on the school compound. This initiative, according to the principal,...
For decades, people, especially in the rural communities of Jamaica, have benefited from the local government work programme, also known as ‘bullo wuk’. On Friday, December 10, The Gleaner news team went to the upper regions of West Central St...
A massive fire that consumed three buildings in the heart of Spanish Town on Wednesday has disrupted post-mortem examinations at Archer’s Funeral Home and caused heartbreak for householders and school authorities. A house and early childhood school...
RESIDENTS OF Lluidas Vale can now have quick, easy and convenient access to browse the Internet courtesy of the Universal Service Fund (USF). Millicent Belcher expressed appreciation that Wi-Fi was installed in the park in the North West St...
When Margaret Jenkins purchased a black and white ram for $25,000 for a get-together at Christmas, the last thing she expected was for it to be snatched from her veranda. When she woke up last Wednesday, the only sign left behind was the length of...
CHIEF EXECUTIVE officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), Daniel Dawes, has revealed that the organisation will finance the tuition of persons who matriculate to university under the Technical Advance Programme (TAP). “We will pay 100 per cent...
Farming has been traditionally considered a back-breaking job, but Serian Clarke has endured the hardships and is making a living as a farmer. Clarke, who lives in Jeffrey Town, St Mary, is often seen working in her cabbage field. She cultivates...
With more than 30 districts and some 10,000 residents to serve, police personnel at the Glengoffe Police Station in St Catherine have been suffering with unsanitary conditions and structural deficiencies. The building, which was built in the early...
The tattered clothing and the stench that emanated from Stafford Malcolm is a far cry from better days when he was employed to one of Jamaica’s largest commercial banks. Malcolm now lives under a culvert in the rural township of Glengoffe district...
While many have commended the Government for its recent adjustments in the Disaster Risk Management Act, the operator of a funeral home is asking for leniency. Peter Perry, the managing director of Perry’s Funeral Home in Spanish Town, St Catherine...
The pothole-riddled roads throughout the Charlemont Housing Scheme in northwest St Catherine have fuelled the wrath of residents, who have spearheaded a petition to get the Government’s attention. “We sent a petition with over 200 signatures to...
When Leslie Lewis got a call about his cousins yesterday, he thought he would have been reminded to transport one of them to Kingston as planned. He was stunned to discover he would be visiting a murder scene as 69-year-old Christine Lewis, a...
