There has been a strong demand for baby chicks since the pandemic started, triggered by more people going into chicken farming as a source of income. Hi-Pro Business Development Manager Dayne Patterson said the present demand is five to 10 per cent...
A festering family feud has been cited as the trigger for the fatal shooting of two persons in Dunkirk, east Kingston, on Friday evening. Two others were wounded in the incident, as gunmen reportedly targeted a wake about 7:45 p.m. Most residents...
Double amputee Cara Moore now has plans to expand her fledgling chicken-rearing business to a 500-bird capacity enterprise that she started after losing her legs to diabetes in 2016 and 2020. The 36-year-old graduate of the College of Agriculture,...
If the six students aboard the two trains that pulled into the Spanish Town terminal for the start of the new commuter rail service yesterday is any indication of its future passengerload, it could bring into question its viability, especially at a...
Mounting back taxes and health issues are suspected to have driven 70-year-old businessman Donald Anthony Thompson to have allegedly committed suicide overnight on Saturday, his wife, Paulette Thompson, has said. The elderly man, who operated a...
Former president of Island Life Insurance Company and retired Vice President of Sagicor Jamaica Michael Fraser, who passed away suddenly at the age of 79 on Saturday, has been hailed as a giant of the Jamaican life insurance industry and a legend...
Shootings by rival gangs have left two persons dead as a result of gunshot wounds they sustained in separate incidents in the community of 31 St John’s Road in Spanish Town between Monday night and Tuesday morning. The men have been identified as...
The officiating pastor at the funeral for reputed gangster Christopher Anthony ‘Dog Paw’ Linton was last Friday prevented from delivering a sermon as the time allotted for the proceedings by the security forces had been exhausted. The service,...
In what residents suspect to be a retaliatory attack in a dispute over domestic issues, arsonists on Thursday morning continued their spate of destruction by setting fire to a three-bedroom unoccupied house after destroying three adjoining houses...
Chuck Dillion has not had a normal Christmas for eight years, however, this year, the season has been one of reflection for the 42-year-old homeless man as he ponders who will bring some cheer. Taking up residence at the Cross Roads bus stop for...
The St Catherine South police said the curfew imposed in sections of Gregory Park since Saturday is showing some sign of success. This after the discovery of a Remington shotgun and six 12-gauge cartridges early Tuesday morning in a section of the...
An ongoing rift between rival factions in the Gulf area of Gregory Park, St Catherine, has triggered new tensions in the crime-plagued community as residents blame the St Catherine South police and political representatives for taking sides in the...
Winston Williams believes he was not vindicated by the very system he thought would protect him after being accused of a rape nearly 40 years ago, an act he insists he did not commit. But after serving an eight-year sentence, he has still not been...
A man believed to be of unsound mind who allegedly murdered his 46-year-old mother in Greater Portmore, St Catherine, was fatally shot early Tuesday after going on a rampage in which he attacked security guards and hijacked a motor vehicle. The...
Residents of Orangefield and Orangefield Village in St Catherine took to the streets on Monday, blocking access roads to force the National Water Commission (NWC) to address the supply crisis affecting the adjoining communities for more than a...
Corporal Lorenzo Haughton of the St Catherine North police traffic department has berated some owners of public transportation vehicles who employ unskilled drivers to operate passenger vehicles. “Some persons just have this thing that they can...
“Well mi a tell you it rough! The water crisis up yah really tough. Mi have to go way down a one spring fi get water,” said Veronica Bryan, a resident of Jambos Pond in Glengoffe, St Catherine, who vented her frustration over a long-standing water...
After experiencing some level of hesitancy, the vaccination drive in Port Royal has picked up steam, with some 115 persons turning up at the vaccination site on Saturday to receive first and second doses. Community leaders said they were pleased...
In the wake of a rare disease that has decimated watermelon farms in St Elizabeth and Manchester, lettuce cultivators in the southwestern region of the so-called Breadbasket Parish are facing huge financial fallout from a similar scourge. Akeem...
As part of the One Ocean Expedition expected to run until 2023, Jamaica welcomed on Saturday the Norwegian vessel Statsraad Lehmkuhl, one of the world’s largest sailing ships, to the historic Naval Dockyard in Port Royal. The vessel, currently on a...
In a damning criticism of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), councillors attending Wednesday’s general meeting of the Portmore Municipal Council accused the state agency of playing politics with garbage collection in the...
RESIDENTS OF Above Rocks and the adjoining Retirement community are now experiencing regular power outages that are causing untold discomfort for them, as the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) continues to search for solutions to stem the...
An expansion of additional storage capacity at AstroJam Limited, a local agricultural cultivation and distribution company based in Bluntas, St Elizabeth, has been cited as paramount to Jamaica’s food security and import substitution. Acting...
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding said the party is in full preparation mode for the upcoming local government elections, which are expected by February 2022. Golding, who is also opposition leader, presented the party’s full...
The nightmare scenario of going to bed and waking up each day with a feeling of hopelessness and the increased possibility of dying any minute by the bullet has become the harsh reality for some residents of Gregory Park in Portmore, St Catherine,...
