The Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) is reacting with “shock and outrage” at last week’s murder of an 80-year-old woman in St Ann and is demanding greater protection for the elderly, even as investigators struggle to solve the case....
FOR SEVERAL years while he managed the Alexandria Police Station, then Sergeant Ricardo Beckford earned the trust of community members through innovative and tried and proven community outreach programmes. In the November 26, 2021 edition of The...
Shadow Minister of Energy and Climate Change, Phillip Paulwell, has chastised the Government for its lack of response to a specific set of proposals he has been advancing to solve electricity theft. In his sectoral debate presentation this week,...
The University of the West Indies Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory (UWI-DBML) has launched an ambitious project to restore the Queen conch population in Jamaica’s overfished marine environment. The Queen conch mobile lab was developed by Dr Megan...
THE WELL-KNOWN phrase, “Go big or go home”, could have well been crafted as a challenge for midwife Florence Pink of Bonham Crest in Exchange, near Ocho Rios. And how well she would have risen to that challenge! At 84-years-old, Nurse Pink, as she...
Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica Masakui Rungsung says a medical camp held earlier this month at the Mustard Seed Communities’ Jacob’s Ladder in Haddon, St Ann, was the least his office could do to help the plight of Haitian children with...
Education Minister Fayval Williams is hoping Jamaican children will learn how to solve conflicts without resorting to violence. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, in the aftermath of the stabbing death of a 15-year-old student at Irwin High School...
The Judiciary Strategic Business Plan for 2024-2028 was launched recently, following the successful implementation of an initial plan for the 2019 – 2023 period. In hailing the impact of the initial plan, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes said it enabled...
Citing the positive outcomes of the Judiciary Strategic Business Plan (JSBP) for 2019-2023, Justice Patrick Brooks, president of the Court of Appeal, is throwing his support behind the new JSBP for 2024-2028, which was launched recently. Brooks...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says his ministry has not been able to spend funds allocated by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, despite pleas to his team to do so. Addressing the launch of the Judiciary Strategic Business Plan for...
St Mary teacher Ruth-Ann Taylor has empowered several St Mary women in the Boscobel area with the skill of floral arrangement, opening doors for them to earn an income. Despite being employed full-time by the education ministry, Taylor has...
Former businessman, the late James ‘Jimmy’ Moss-Solomon, who for decades served GraceKennedy group in various positions, has been hailed as “a man for all seasons” by executive of the company, Catherine Kennedy. Speaking at the launch of the book...
A man who went by the alias ‘Badness’ was shot and killed by unknown assailants in Golden Grove, St Ann, Sunday night. Dead is 56-year-old Alcan Rose, who is also known as ‘Bax’, of no fixed address. According to the police, residents reported that...
A bus with 23 passengers, mostly children, on an Easter Sunday holiday excursion to Ocho Rios in St Ann crashed in Fern Gully on Sunday, killing one person and injuring everyone else on board. Forty-nine-year-old Suzette Thomas, a housekeeper of a...
The family of 25-year-old Sashay Burke, otherwise called Keena, of Alexandria, St Ann, has expressed appreciation to the public for the assistance provided towards her heart surgery. Keena underwent successful life-saving surgery at the University...
The family of 25-year-old Sashay ‘Keena’ Burke is expressing appreciation for the public’s assistance towards her successful cardiac surgery. Burke, who is from the community of Alexandria in St Ann, underwent surgery at the University Hospital of...
Director of Nursing Services (DNS) at St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital Carmen Johnson and her team have expressed delight in the refurbished and enlarged space they now occupy at the health facility. Since February, Johnson and several nurse managers...
Over a decade after he rose to prominence, thanks to his roadside art gallery, the roadside artist returns to the place where it all started, better, more experienced, and a more focused artist. And suddenly, people are starting to remember the joy...
Two schools in St Mary are to benefit from the staging of the St Mary Kite and Food Festival 2024, set for Easter Sunday, March 31, at Buccaneer’s Jerk and Juice in Port Maria. According to promoters,RG’s Events, St Cyprian’s Kindergarten and...
In its quest to open 20 stores in Jamaica during its five-year contract with the Alabama, USA-based BirdShack Fried Chicken, local franchise holders, the Wayne Cummings-led Arya Holdings Limited, on Friday opened its fourth restaurant in Jamaica,...
Despite the slow turnout of voters, the minority leader in the St Ann Municipal Corporation, Winston Brown, was optimistic that the People’s National Party (PNP) would wrest back seats it lost to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in 2016. “I am...
Twenty-two employees of Sandals Resorts, drawn from the company’s hotels across the Caribbean, graduated from the Sandals Corporate University (SCU) after completing the diploma in Hospitality Leadership programme recently. In his keynote address...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government is to construct a two-storey market facility in Highgate, St Mary, to replace the current structure, as the government seeks to repair the country’s infrastructure. The Highgate market was...
In 2014 when Cool Corporation launched the e-commerce store, coolmarket.com, the vision was to revolutionise e-commerce in Jamaica and make shopping easier for customers. After a decade of being Jamaica’s leading e-commerce store, CoolMarket...
The family of 25-year-old Sashay Burke, 25, of Alexandria, St Ann is appealing for help to raise funds to enable her to have an urgent heart surgery. Sashay, also known as Keena, has been diagnosed with two holes in her heart which require life-...
