Her story is one of a changed woman with an unwavering faith in God who is reaching out for help to assist her two kids, a bright 10-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy who has never been to school. In her first year at Kemps Hill High School...
On December 24 last year, Andrea Riley of Rural Retreat, Claremont, posted on Facebook: “Three things that await me next year: 1. A new house. 2. A happy family. 3. More blessings.” Last Friday, March 18, on her 42nd birthday, all three things...
After years of complaints from the public about the noise nuisance caused by loud motorbikes, the Island Traffic Authority (ITA) says it will be moving to address the issue. ITA Director Kenute Hare, speaking to The Gleaner, said the authority,...
ST ANN historian Dr Frank Lawrence is among several parishioners who have expressed disappointment that St Ann native, reggae legend Robert ‘Bob’ Marley, is not represented on any of the new notes the Government is set to introduce to the country...
A LARGE turnout marked the St Ann Agri-Tourism Business Symposium at Seville Heritage Park in St Ann last Friday, but it was the display by Eastern Exotic Pets Jamaica (EEPJ) out of Kingston that really caught the eyes of most patrons. The team...
Fire destroyed a four-bedroom house in Lucky Hill, Retreat, in St Mary, early last Thursday morning, leaving six persons, including three children, homeless and damage estimated at approximately $1.5 million. Reports from the Retreat police are...
A cosmetic business that began in 2020 during and because of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown received a $150,000 cash boost at the St Ann Agri-Tourism Business Symposium on Friday at Seville Heritage Park in St Ann. When the pandemic interrupted...
Residents of Colegate in St Ann, located just above Fern Gully, are complaining about the lack of water in their pipes and are appealing to the National Water Commission (NWC) to rectify the situation. In the meantime, some residents have had to...
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...
