House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert, her son, Giovanni Philibert, and gardener Simon Sanchez were freed on Monday after Parish Judge Larona Montague-Williams ruled that they had no case to answer in a case of illegal dumping brought against...
House Speaker Marissa Dalrymple-Philibert and two co-accused are expected to return to the St Ann Parish Court today when the case of illegal dumping is expected to begin. Dalrymple-Philibert is also member of parliament for South Trelawny for the...
In October 2020, Meadowbrook High School student Gabrielle Goode, then 14 years old, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common type of cancer in children. She was diagnosed after complaining of a pain in her neck and...
For Andrea Riley, of Rural Retreat near Claremont in South East St Ann, the People’s National Party (PNP) stronghold currently held by Member of Parliament (MP) Lisa Hanna, her prayers for a house has been answered, thanks to an initiative...
Ten-year-old Austin Rose of Pineapple, Ocho Rios, knows that his dad, Michael Rose, is not too well. He might not know the severity of his illness, that he has stage four cancer, but he is aware that all is not well with his favourite role model...
Noted attorney-at-law Linton P. Gordon says that the fire that destroyed the Brown’s Town Courthouse has dealt a serious blow to judicial proceedings and access to justice in St Ann. Noting that the Brown’s Town Court, one of only three remaining...
Despite a massive fire gutting the Brown’s Town courthouse on Sunday night, several matters set to be heard Monday proceeded as scheduled at the Addison Park Sports Complex offices as Chief Justice Bryan Sykes and court staff tally losses and sift...
Maybe because of her age, she doesn’t fully understand the severity of her situation and so she remains upbeat. Or maybe it’s a mother’s faith in God manifesting itself through a child. Whatever it is, seven-year-old Gabrielle Baker is showing the...
Placard-bearing supporters of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in St Ann North Eastern protested against incumbent Member of Parliament Marsha Smith on Thursday, calling for their party’s leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to remove her as...
Chairman of the St Ann Municipal Corporation and Mayor of St Ann’s Bay Sydney Stewart said the proposal to build a bus shed to benefit students of Moneague College will be redrafted to reflect the separate costs to build a retaining wall and to...
Describing the occasion as Christmas in January, Assistant Commissioner Calvin Allen on Sunday led the commendations for Corporal Howard Francis of the Ocho Rios police at the handover of a house to a senior citizen in New Hope, St Ann, after he...
It’s like a screenplay from a horror movie where a murderer is haunted by spirits of his victims, except in this case, it’s spirits of children reaching out for help in a bizarre way. Seventy-six-year-old St Ann-born retired health worker-turned-...
With the return to face-to-face classes at Marymount High School, the all-girls institution located in Cromwell and Highgate, St Mary, is seeing 90 per cent of its 870 students on roll turn out to classes in the fourth week since resumption. This...
Following an incident where a young child was sexually assaulted by two minors in a St Ann community last year, two ladies who hail from the community returned to their roots to assist parents in the district overcome the trauma. A parenting forum...
In a move that speaks to camaraderie across both sides of the political divide, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Lime Hall division in St Ann, Genevor Gordon-Bailey, led a motion to have a street in Steer Town named in honour of former...
President of the St Mary Chamber of Commerce, Frederick Young, is appealing to the authorities to begin construction of the long-awaited Port Maria Police Station for which ground has been broken twice in the past three years under separate...
Blingers Foundation, the charity arm of Blingers store in Ocho Rios, once again made the Christmas season a happy one for six garbage collectors who work in the Ocho Rios area, with the donation of television sets. Each of the six workers...
Families who have been relocated because of mining operations and have had to wait decades to gain a title to their new location are now benefiting from a speedier process implemented by Mining and Transport Minister Robert Montague, using a...
A gunman believed to have been seeking to exact revenge on another man opened fire at an illegal party in Old Folly, Discovery Bay, St Ann, early Monday morning, leaving two persons dead and three others injured. Up to late Monday evening, police...
Five persons whose families were relocated by Noranda Bauxite because of mining operations on Tuesday collected their land titles from Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague during a ceremony at the company’s offices in Brown’s Town, St...
Kingston photographer Jeremy Francis brought 30 years of experience in photography to the inaugural ‘Art in the Village’ showcase at Island Village Shopping Centre in Ocho Rios, St Ann, last weekend. Francis, who is also a location scout and...
Twenty-six-year-old Constable Orlando Irons, who died from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident which also claimed the life of controversial pastor Kevin Smith on October 25, was laid to rest in St Ann on Friday after a service in which...
“Why do we have land where everything grows, and yet we’re not self-sufficient with our food supply?” That is the potent question Christopher Binns, of Zion Ites Farm, the farming aspect of Stush in the Bush, located in Free Hill, St Ann, is asking...
The St Ann’s Bay Market has benefited from a facelift valued at $1.5 million, thanks to a donation from the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF). According to Dallas Dickenson, councillor for the St Ann’s Bay division, work was carried out during...
