Since its elevation to the National Premier League, Mount Pleasant Football Academy has provided home parish, St Ann, and the wider Jamaica, with excitement on the football pitch. Today, under more trying conditions brought on by the coronavirus...
The colourful kites that used to line the St Ann sky at Easter time were absent this year. Kites of varying colours, shapes and sizes, with only a long tail being their commonality, were expertly crafted by skilled kite makers in St Ann, in...
Paper has never looked so beautiful. It has taken a love of art and a desire to be one’s own boss for Prescella Asmar to start PA Arts and Craft, a business that specialises in paper decorations for virtually all forms of celebrations. For parties...
Two families in St Ann’s Bay are grieving following a bloody attack that left one man dead and a teenage boy in the St Ann’s Bay Hospital. The suspect in the attack, a man known as ‘Carlos’, is in police custody. Dead is 56-year-old Delroy Smith of...
Past student of Aabuthnott Gallimore High School in Alexandria, St Ann, and now business professor living in New York, Daren Johnson has been adding some bright moments to the lives of several outstanding Jamaican women across the globe, even as...
It took the group of St Ann men calling themselves ‘Mi and Mi Bredda Dem Good’ less than two weeks to change their recipe from cooks competing in a social media quarantine cook-off to a team helping needy residents in the parish. But such is the...
Residents of St Catherine, which is under a one-week lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus, are crossing the northern border into St Mary, heading to areas such as Port Maria and Galina, according to reports reaching The Gleaner....
SEVERAL ENTERTAINERS in St Ann have taken to Facebook to entertain their fans as the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact social life. And, like in so many other areas of life, the live-via-Facebook experience has brought...
Referred to as Patient 5, the St Ann man who beat COVID-19 and was released from the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital on Sunday, after 16 days in isolation, is expressing thanks, while urging Jamaicans not to take the disease lightly. In the...
A group of young men in Brown’s Town, St Ann, decided they would not let the novel coronavirus spoil their leisure time, so they got together on Sunday to hold a social-media cook-off titled ‘Mi and Mi Bredda Dem Good’. Coordinated by Richardo...
The Jamaica Gangdong Association (JGA), which represents the Chinese community in Jamaica, has come to the assistance of efforts in St Ann to fight against the coronavirus, COVID-19. On Thursday, the group donated food items and other goods valued...
Jamaica’s online marketing company, CoolMarket, is delivering grocery items purchased using its platform free to customers in the Corporate Area and St Catherine, until further notice. The Ocho Rios-based company said the move is to minimise the...
Doctors in St Ann are still committed to offering healthcare amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and other illnesses, despite the closure of several offices in the parish. Several doctor offices remain open, and those who have closed their facilities are...
Couples Resorts has announced the temporary closure of its four hotel properties because of the COVID-19 virus. The properties, Couples Sans Souci, Couples Tower Isle, Couples Negril, and Couples Swept Away will close March 28 to April 30, 2020, a...
As the dramatic economic fallout from COVID-19 continues to unfold, the latest hotel to announce a one-month temporary closure is Couples Resorts which operates four all-inclusive resorts in Jamaica. The properties, Couples Sans Souci, Couples...
Nine community members drawn from Noranda Bauxite’s operating areas in St Ann were presented with awards of excellence by the Noranda Community Council recently, for their contribution to various areas of society. The nine, five men and four women...
A total of $10 million has been spent to pave the car park at the Ocho Rios Market as work promised by mayor of St Ann’s Bay has begun. Work is also progressing on sidewalks along Main Street, with roadwork also on the cards. “We spent $10 million...
Even with a mathematics average that matches the national average of 74 per cent, administrators at Breadnut Hill Primary School in St Ann are not resting on their laurels but pushing to further improve performance in the subject. As a result, the...
As news spread across St Ann on Friday that three of the six persons confirmed as contracting the novel coronavirus were being treated at St Ann’s Bay Regional, residents of the parish shied away from the institution. A visit by The Gleaner Friday...
The size of the gathering might not have truly reflected the magnitude of the event, but, in the end, it was all worth the effort. Approximately 30 women turned out to celebrate International Women’s Day on Monday, a day after the official...
Firebrand member of Parliament for St Ann North West, Dayton Campbell, said that he remained unperturbed by the challenge posed by prospective Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate Krystal Lee in the upcoming general election. Lee was recently...
The Ocho Rios cruise ship pier remained empty on Friday after MSC Cruise pulled its vessel, MSC Divina, from a scheduled visit, diverting it to Grand Cayman. A source in the tourism sector told The Gleaner that information out of Miami, where the...
In what is considered one of the largest investments locally, ground was broke last Friday in Llandovery, St Ann, for the construction of the Sugarcane Bay Hotel, a US$1-billion project to build 4,700 rooms over a 10-year period. In welcoming the...
The baby who was rescued from a pit latrine in October last year in Cox Piece, St Mary, and subsequently dubbed ‘Baby Moses’ by residents is out of hospital and has found a new home in St James. Efforts to get an update on the infant from the Child...
As countries across the world take steps to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Jamaican health officials on Tuesday denied more than 6,000 people on a cruise ship access to the port of Ocho Rios, as a crew member on board had been...
