On the heels of allegations of stolen utility poles and illegal electricity connections at the Ocho Rios playing field, and $61 million in unaccounted-for funds from the special grants and repairs fund (SGR) at the St Ann Municipal Corporation,...
Several teachers benefited after attending a two-day workshop on positive discipline, which was part of a series of workshops being presented by Life Skills Publishing and Consultancy Services (LSPCS) that are based on the Positive Youth...
Jamaicans domiciled abroad will soon get the chance to become members of the People’s National Party (PNP) as the organisation bids to expand its footprint with a beefed-up registration drive. That decision was ratified during Sunday’s National...
Eva Myers, who made Ocho Rios her home and Evita’s Italian Restaurant the leader in its class since 1984, has passed. Myers died Friday morning in Montego Bay, St James, after ailing for some time. She was 79. Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett...
Eleven years after the Boscobel Aerodrome was upgraded and renamed the Ian Fleming International Airport, the facility welcomed its first international commercial flight on Thursday when an interCaribbean Airways 30-seat airplane arrived from...
When Prince Hall’s We Believe Ministry delivered a house to Levy Neath of Harrison Town, Ocho Rios, St Ann, in November 2018, it was built in part from proceeds from his first gospel concert and marked the beginning of a journey that has seen seven...
Health Minister Christopher Tufton said there will be additional customer-service training for the staff at the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital in St Ann. Speaking Friday after a tour of the hospital, Tufton said customer service at hospitals is an...
There is more to agriculture than just producing food and, at Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann’s Bay, St Ann, this has become apparent in recent times. In what could aptly be described as a revolution, the agricultural science...
Sargassum season is back, and the livelihoods of fishermen in the small community of Castle Gordon, located between Galina and Port Maria in St Mary, are already being adversely affected. In addition, the community is complaining of the stench...
The People’s National Party (PNP) says it is willing to accept former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) member Dr Ryan Simpson to the party but has made it clear that there is no vacancy in South East St Ann. Simpson was selected by the JLP to contest...
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is warning praedial thieves that the Government will spare no resources to get them behind bars. Praedial larceny costs Jamaican farmers up to $6 billion annually, according to Government...
Using solar pumps to aid operations, over $15 million has been spent to get water to approximately 1,000 residents of Montreal and Top Oxford in Western St Mary. Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, Robert Montague, along with...
The Golden Eye Foundation, formerly Oracabessa Foundation, on Friday granted eight schools in St Mary a total of $3 million to implement projects at the institutions. At the same time, the foundation has announced the launch of its second project...
Hundreds of persons turned out to volunteer as three major projects highlighted Labour Day 2022 in St Ann, where education, the environment and health were some of the areas targeted on the day. Over in the deep rural community of Grants Bailey,...
New Day Aluminium (Jamaica) Limited, the managing partner of Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II, has formally changed its name to Discovery Bauxite Operations Limited, completing a formal rebranding that started last year. The change will not...
Amid a ferment of labour protests in recent weeks, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie and Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) Commissioner Stewart Beckford have signalled their commitment to improving worker welfare after firefighters staged two...
While Jamaica slowed almost to a halt during the COVID-19 lockdown, St Ann business couple Lascelles and Elizabeth Broderick toiled tirelessly to upgrade their herbal garden and farm, near Hinds Town in St Ann. It was a task that has seen their...
Evergo Jamaica, the company at the forefront of the electric vehicle (EV) charging network infrastructure in Jamaica, marked its first anniversary with a small ceremony in Ocho Rios, St Ann, on Saturday night, where it announced a new partnership...
Upset over a lack of regular electricity supply, angry residents of Retreat, St Ann, blocked the main road leading from their community to Stewart Town, Trelawny, on Monday, causing scores of students to miss school in both parishes. Several...
Political turncoat Ivan Anderson has returned to the People’s National Party (PNP) a decade after expulsion and is eyeing a challenge for the St Ann North West seat held by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Anderson, who has not yet formally...
Touched by the fact that her dear mother spent extended periods in hospital before she died in 1991, Senior Public Health Nurse Dawn-Marie Richards says her drive to serve and care for the sick comes from the heart. Taking, too, inspiration from...
President of the Northern Jamaica Law Society, Pearline Bailey, says the temporary court arrangements in Brown’s Town are inconvenient for lawyers and other persons using the facility. The Brown’s Town courthouse was destroyed by fire on February...
Since its launch in 2020, the Plantation Smokehouse in Richmond, St Ann, has developed an enviable reputation as a choice location for foodies. Many journey from Kingston to St Ann to experience Plantation Smokehouse’s tantalising dishes; however...
The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) used Read Across Jamaica Day to unveil its child protection mascot, a bunny rabbit named Mr Protector, at Bamboo Primary School in St Ann on Tuesday. Quite fittingly, the mascot was designed...
Miss Universe Jamaica 2021 Daena Soares brought the message of the importance of children expressing themselves as Ocho Rios High School launched its slate of activities for Child Month on Monday. Emphasising the theme for Child Month, ‘Listen Up...
