WESTERN BUREAU:An extra push and an innovative approach was what propelled the Pell River Primary School, in Hanover, to gain its first-ever 100 per cent score in the Grade Four Literacy Test this year, a feat that also enabled them to top their...
The Ministry of Health, through the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), has approved a J$12.27 million contract to perform much-needed expansion work on the Green Pond Type One Health Centre in St James.The expansion work, which will be...
Published:Friday | October 2, 2015 | 10:18 AMAdrian Frater
Cognisant of the view that the future belongs to the youth and also fully aware that the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector could play an important role in that future, special emphasis will be placed on offering employment options to...
Come this Friday, the scenic Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St James, will play host to the 2015 staging of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) signature trade show, 'MoBay Expo', and from all indications, it should...
This year will mark the 16th anniversary of the trade show, Montego Bay Expo. Do you believe it is meeting its mandate to showcase goods and services and create linkages and other opportunities for local businesses?Sandra Munroe-Clarke - EducatorI...
We hear people make reference to 'brain food', which suggests that certain foods have a special impact on our brain function. This refers to the potential positive impact that some foods can have, but what about the negative impacts?Studies have...
Published:Friday | October 2, 2015 | 10:45 AMOkoye Henry
Residents of Latium district in St James are hopping mad at their member of parliament (MP), Edmund Bartlett, whom they are blaming for the slow pace of the reconstruction work on the bridge, which leads into their community.Since the bridge was...
The Clifton Primary School in Hanover recently opened its new library, which was established with funds raised by United States-based non-profit organisation Reading Owls International.Reading Owls retrofitted one of the classrooms and equipped the...
As the horrifying murders, which are being blamed on the illicit lottery scam, continue to rock several communities in western Jamaica, one of the region's prominent business leaders is expressing the view that should they choose to adopt a...
Published:Thursday | September 24, 2015 | 7:20 PMAdrian Frater
While the illicit lottery scam was hailed as the great panacea when it first came to the fore in 2006, leaving many districts in and around Montego Bay awash with cash, subsequent happenings have caused many, some of whom have even benefited, to be...
The illicit lottery scam is being blamed for the criminal mayhem that is now sweeping across western Jamaica. Since the start of the year, many persons have spoken out against this scourge. Here are some of the quotable quotes from The Gleaner's...
Seeking medical treatment is hardly ever a pleasant experience. It usually requires sacrifice. There are even times when there is conflict between what the health caregiver wants and what the client wants. So who should decide?There was a time when...
Now in his third year at Bloomfield Junior College in New Jersey in the United States, former Munro College daCosta Cup star striker Shaunavon DeSouza is now creating waves in the 2015 Central Atlantic Collegiate College (CACC) Men's Soccer...
Published:Thursday | September 24, 2015 | 8:03 PMMark Titus
International gospel recording artiste Vashawn Mitchell has been booked as the headline act for the fourth staging of the 'Come Celebrate Jesus' gospel concert , which will be staged at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James this Saturday....
Published:Thursday | September 24, 2015 | 8:08 PMAdrian Frater
Businessman Heroy Clarke, the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) candidate for Central St James, is blaming the parish's spike in crime on the failure of the authorities to properly fund social-intervention programmes so that they can become sustainable."...
They say good things come in small packages, and so it is with flaxseed. The seed has been held in high regard from time immemorial. It was even cultivated in ancient Egypt and China, but what good is it in these modern times?Flaxseed is quite small...
It was a case of shoes galore at the Chester Castle All-Age School in Hanover on Wednesday as all the students were given new shoes courtesy of the United States based Darryl S. Brister (DSB) International Ministries in a ceremony at the school.At...
Eight hundred students at the Anchovy High School in St James began the 2015-16 school year at a new campus, the Montpelier-based Fidel Castro Campus, which allows the school to revert from a double- shift system to a single-shift operation.The...
Youth football coach, Trevor Craig, grew up in Lucea, Hanover, during a time when the parish was quite peaceful and crime, including murders, was virtually non-existent."As a youngster growing up in Lucea, everyone used to know one another. As...
Donald Campbell, a longstanding Hanover bee farmer, is calling on community-based organisations and individuals within the parish to venture into beekeeping with a view of helping to meet the global demand for Jamaican honey, which is highly sought-...
While some residents are bemoaning the lack of employment opportunities in Hanover, others have been busy busily creating an economic pathway for themselves in the field of apiculture.Oran Davidson, 18, is the youngest established bee farmer in...
