PATRONS WHO attended the 68th staging of the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show in Clarendon were treated to culinary delights at the 13 parish pavilions coordinated by Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) home economics officers....
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Akelah Clarke is one jubilant farmer as she showed off the medals she collected – two first places, a second and third for her prized sheep in various categories. Caring for sheep is something that comes naturally to her, as she...
Shereka Bryan held her eight-year-old son closer to her as she pondered the plight of what had happened to her friend, 31-year-old Kemesha Wright. Trying to make sense of the carnage that led to Sunday’s funeral of Wright and her four children in...
The last thing Juanita Allison said to her son, 16-year-old Demaro Gibson, before he died is that he would be receiving a beating for “tiefing out the meat”. She clung to that memory as she tried to come to grips with the fact that he was among the...
THREE YOUNG Reggae Girlz have received scholarships valued at thousands of United States dollars to help with furthering their educational goals this year. Rachel Walters (Rooted2Rise), Javanae Jones (Tarania ‘Plum-Plum’ Clarke Scholarship) and...
The Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show is a staple during Jamaica’s Independence celebrations. It is an event that many look forward to with its many attractions and thrills. Canada-based retired public health inspector Dr Sylvanus...
CLARENDON COUNCILLORS have expressed outrage at the cancellation of the ‘Own Your Own Device’ initiative by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. In a correspondence from the ministry that was read at the monthly sitting of the...
Albert Logan was so excited about the prospect of finally owning a good house that after seeing a tent being erected, signifying that the ceremony was eminent, he could not eat or sleep until yesterday’s handover ceremony. The emotional Logan told...
The freak drag-racing tragedy at the Vernamfield Aerodrome on Sunday has triggered a review of staging protocols by the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), which could strengthen qualification criteria before future event access is approved. That...
AS JAMAICA prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary of Independence, Letna Allen-Rowe, who hails from Clarendon and now lives in Canada, is wishing she could be on the island to be a part of the festivities. At the top of her list of desires is...
Thursday’s discovery of Scot Bamburry’s body more than a day after the stevedore fell overboard at Berth 8 of the Port of Kingston has put the safety regime under scrutiny as parallel probes get under way into the shock death. The family of the 39-...
YOLANDA RICHARDS, mother of 11-year-old Mark Richards Jr, could not contain her joy when she spoke with The Gleaner about her son’s achievement. Mark Jr, who is the top-performing top male student at Free Town Primary School, did it while missing...
A year after Clarendon car washer Scot Bamburry longed for a dream job in the shipping industry, family and friends in his home town Wood Hall are fearing the worst after the stevedore fell overboard Tuesday night, disappearing without a trace...
Although Dr Dwight Stephenson had initially harboured dreams of being a physician or a surgeon, when the opportunity presented itself for him to study dentistry in the Russian Federation, he did not allow it to pass him by. Stephenson, who hails...
Leroy Jagasar and his two nephews Suresh and Sanjay are doing everything they can to keep the Hosay Festival tradition going in Clarendon. Held in August each year, it takes months of preparation to pull off the big event as they have to build the...
Death doesn’t only bring tears in the northeast Clarendon community of Crofts Hill. Its finality also sparks oxymoronic laughter, vibrancy, and relief in a popular traditional dance called Ring Play. Led by Robert Walters, Ring Play comprises 100...
Come Emancipation Day, 84-year-old Eustace Richards will line up among the riders in the perennial Top Hill donkey race that has for years been a cultural staple in the St Catherine district. And the evergreen warrior has every confidence he can...
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-old Adrianna Parry, who recently graduated from H.J. Robinson High School in Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos Islands, is crediting her Jamaican background for graduating with the second-highest average in the country. Parry, who...
The relatives of the Cocoa Piece family who were brutally slain last week have pushed back at rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice’s (JFJ) appeal for restraint despite widespread approval for the death penalty locally. Expressions of outrage and...
Private Kishawn Henry Sr, whose 23-month-old son was among the five victims of a throat-slashing slaughter on June 21 on New Road in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, is still finding it difficult to talk about the tragedy without falling apart. As well-...
Leah Vanhorne is still half-hoping to see her best friend, Kimanda Smith, at their graduation ceremony today. But the 15-year-old, who was one of five victims of a massacre in the rural district of Cocoa Piece on Tuesday, will not turn up for the...
Plans are well underway to construct a public sanitary convenience for the town of Junction in St Elizabeth after parish representatives say several attempts have failed over the years, and the town is in dire need of the facility. Hamlet Stone,...
In the middle of the Newtown housing development in Black River sits the community centre, no longer a picture of what it used to be since it was built in the 1970s on land donated by the National Housing Trust. The large building, which houses...
Oral and Allison Turner have learnt resilience, having to rebound from setbacks and pushing past the nos to getting to the all-important yes to keep Turner Innovations Limited going. In a sit-down with The Gleaner, Allison shared that they had to...
Desmond and Terry Howitt are desperate for their two tertiary-level children to complete their education. Terry’s 20-year-old daughter, Shenae Simpson, is in her first year at the Caribbean Maritime University, while 22-year-old Shemoe Collash...
