On Saturday, Antonnete York left her home in Zion Hill, St Catherine, with shopping bags and a grocery list for Bog Walk, the nearest town centre some five miles away. After spending a few hours waiting in line, she headed back home with the bags...
Police from the Fellowship Hall Police Post in Hill Run, St Catherine, last week returned 24 high-breed goats and a sheep to three grateful farmers in the area whose animals had been reported stolen recently. The police have theorised that the...
The government-imposed lockdown of St Catherine to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus has had a particularly devastating impact on the fortunes of Harkers Hall couple Christine Roberts and Michael Wilson. Wilson, who owns a full-operational...
Farmers have been hit hard by the abrupt lockdown of St Catherine, which is set to run for at least another two days. Crops and livestock are at risk of perishing and losses potentially running into millions of dollars, if the situation is not...
Opposition Spokesman on National Security Fitz Jackson yesterday accused Prime Minister Andrew Holness of lying to the nation about the Government’s decision to deny landing rights to 43 Jamaicans aboard the Marella Discovery 2 when it docked in...
What should have been a routine trip to have a laboratory test done in the Corporate Area yesterday turned out to be quite a testy trip for St Catherine couple George and Cas Creary as a seven-day lockdown of St Catherine kicked in to contain the...
A World Bank executive has suggested that countries should keep borders closed to passenger traffic for a while longer while ensuring international trade continues to prevent a collapse of the global economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a...
The Government’s strategies for controlling the spread of the coronavirus is wreaking havoc with the operations of small businesses such as bars and restaurants, and Mark Brooks is adamant that they need to be revisited to allow for some amount of...
After five years in farming, Tyrone Robinson answered the Government’s call to ramp up production of Irish potatoes and really went in big. Having landed deals with a number of hotels, he was on track to deliver 90,000lb of produce. Then COVID-19...
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security said that it is working with Jamaica Post to ease a cash-flow shortage at a number of post offices across Jamaica. The problem has been attributed to pensioners, some of whom would accumulate their...
What started as a goodwill gesture has grown into a national effort centred on loyalty and patriotism to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. When the global pandemic started to impact Jamaica, Colonel Martin Rickman thought it would make...
THE FINANCIAL downturn sparked by COVID-19 had begun to affect operations at Apparel Wearhouse, forcing the management to lay off some workers. But in an ironic twist, by last Friday evening, the global pandemic that had threatened to close down...
Elaine Simpson and other farmers in South East St Elizabeth are facing serious financial setbacks from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has restricted her ability to travel to the Coronation Market in Kingston to sell tomatoes, cucumbers...
IN SOUTH east St Elizabeth, farmers in the communities of Red Bank, Port Sea, and Melksham are cultivating a wide range of vegetables – tomato, cucumber, cauliflower, melon, garden egg, scallion, broccoli, Scotch bonnet pepper and cabbage – like...
Controversial entertainer Vybz Kartel and his three murder co-convicts will be vindicated this morning when their appeal ruling is handed down, say two members of the high-level legal team representing the men. All four men were sentenced to life...
President and CEO of the Jamaica Broilers Group, Christopher Levy, is backing the call made by government Senator Don Wehby last Friday in the Senate for the suspension of importation of some agricultural produce as the country grapples with the...
At least two major players in the fisheries sector remain unimpressed by the Government’s pronouncements on steps to help the sector in light of $2.1-billion hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Roderick Francis, head of B...
The economic slowdown triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a harsh blow to the operations of Crafton Holdings, the liquid egg plant run by Damion Crawford. The academic-and-politician-turned-entrepreneur said that his company might be...
Restrictions will be lifted this Saturday on residents in quarantined sections of Seven Miles and Eight Miles in Bull Bay who have had their communities under lockdown since Friday after contact-tracing concerns linked with Jamaica’s first...
THE CARIBBEAN Development Bank’s (CDB) has US$90 million in financing as well as other funding available which it is prepared to make available to regional states, at very reasonable interest rates, to bolster their efforts to cope with the ravages...
General Secretary of the Jamaica Baptist Union, Reverend Karl Johnson, in supporting the National Days of Prayer and Fasting which started at 6 p.m. yesterday and will run until 6 p.m. tomorrow as declared by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, has...
At a recent meeting of stakeholders in the fledging bamboo industry at the Miracle Lane Church of the Full Truth in Peckham, Clarendon, David Christie arrived early and took a seat in the front row. He seemed like an eager beaver who wanted to see...
The outlook for domestic food production over the next two months is very good, with pork, poultry and eggs topping the list in areas which Jamaica has achieved near self-sufficiency. In addition, there are enough crop inputs in place to drive...
Plans by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) to install a designated phone line to provide information about the health and welfare of wards and inmates in its care are yet to be implemented, even though it has suspended visits and the...
Long-standing rituals such as communion will be altered or suspended in the wake of the emergence of novel coronavirus infections in Jamaica, the Rev Dr Howard Gregory, archbishop of the Anglican Church in the Province of the West Indies, has said...
