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Published:Friday | December 17, 2021 | 12:06 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PROSPECT, Portland: The Portland Municipal Corporation is to spend $200,000 to provide the Prospect Cemetery with a much-needed facelift in the form of bushing and spraying to rid that burial sight of shrubbery and other forms of vegetation. The...

Published:Thursday | December 2, 2021 | 12:09 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: The Portland police have stepped up surveillance in the northeastern Jamaica parish after 27-year-old Orville Purnell, a fugitive who fled St Lucian authorities, escaped custody from the Kingston Central police lock-up on...

Published:Tuesday | November 16, 2021 | 12:08 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORT MARIA, St Mary: MAYOR OF Port Maria Richard Creary said that the mandatory vaccine initiative implemented for monthly meetings is bearing fruit, noting that there are signs that persons are taking their jabs. Creary, who spoke to The Gleaner...

Published:Thursday | November 11, 2021 | 12:07 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

ISLINGTON, St Mary: More than a week after residents of Islington in St Mary protested outside the Municipal Corporation building, demanding payment for work done during the Ministry of Health and Wellness' vaccination blitz in September,...

Published:Monday | November 8, 2021 | 12:08 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

Unvaccinated players in the tourism industry could lose out on the opportunity to earn from their livelihood following the return of cruise ships to Port Antonio after a two-year absence. It was the advent of COVID-19 that severely disrupted...

Published:Monday | October 18, 2021 | 12:08 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: In what has been described as a low-key and symbolic tournament, the Mayberry Investments-sponsored Superstars of Port Antonio Blue Marlin climaxed on Friday with seven billed fish tagged and released. The tournament, which...

Published:Monday | October 18, 2021 | 12:07 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

NORWICH, Portland: The family of Davian Bryan, the Portland man who allegedly abducted nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and who has been implicated in the disappearance of another girl, said that they are now living in fear after receiving death...

Published:Tuesday | September 21, 2021 | 12:07 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

Port Antonio, Portland A mini park which was built to accommodate persons seeking relaxation and comfort while engaging in social gathering in Port Antonio, has been transformed into a dumping site. The once-picturesque park, with its beautiful...

Published:Friday | September 10, 2021 | 12:06 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

TEMPLE HALL, St Andrew: At least four people are now homeless after fire of unknown origin destroyed a nine-bedroom concrete house at the foot of Clark’s Hill in Temple Hall, St Andrew, shortly after 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. The victims, whose age...

Published:Monday | September 6, 2021 | 12:07 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORTLAND: Tributes are pouring in for the late Orlene Wellington, president-elect of the Jamaica Association of Guidance Counsellors in Education (JAGCE), who passed away on Thursday at the St Ann’s Bay Hospital after a long illness. President of...

Published:Friday | September 3, 2021 | 12:10 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

NAYLORS HILL, Portland: Users of the main thoroughfare leading to the Port Antonio Hospital are clamouring for urgent repairs to be done to the roadway, which is in a state of disrepair. The roadway is heavily utilised by taxi operators, residents...

Published:Friday | September 3, 2021 | 12:07 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Following a spate of robberies targeting business establishments in Port Antonio, the Portland police are now stepping up their nightly patrols in an attempt to disrupt the activities of migrant criminals now plaguing the...

Published:Thursday | September 2, 2021 | 12:08 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

MOORE TOWN, Portland: Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons in Portland, Wallace Sterling, is calling for dialogue and consultation between the Maroon community in Jamaica and the Government to resolve ongoing and long-standing issues affecting...

Published:Monday | August 30, 2021 | 12:06 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

With more than 40 acres of fully grown banana and plantain crops ravaged by Tropical Storm Grace, two farmers in the neighbouring parishes of Portland and St Mary are now reeling from their losses. The damage caused by the tropical storm was quite...

Published:Friday | August 27, 2021 | 12:06 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORT ANTONIO: Portlanders turned out in large numbers on day four of the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ vaccination blitz aimed at inoculating as many persons as possible, including students, as a safeguard against the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic....

Published:Friday | August 13, 2021 | 12:09 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Mayor of Port Antonio Paul Thompson is expressing deep concern over the steady increase in COVID-19 cases in Portland, which is threatening the dormant period that the parish once experienced. Thompson, who is also...

Published:Wednesday | August 4, 2021 | 12:12 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

BUFF BAY: Four Haitian fishermen who landed in Buff Bay on Tuesday were severely dehydrated and appeared to be malnourished, the Portland police have reported. The men are being treated and held at an undisclosed facility in the parish. Portland...

Published:Friday | July 23, 2021 | 12:10 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

St Margaret’s Bay, Portland: With her heart beating rapidly and tears flowing down her cheeks, Annmarie Bryan, daughter of 60-year-old farmer Cynthia Hinds described her painful ordeal in removing her mother’s burnt body from a hut yesterday in St...

Published:Thursday | July 22, 2021 | 12:10 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

Moore Town, Portland: Moore Town Basic School in the Rio Grande Valley of eastern Portland, which had fallen into a state of disrepair, has been renovated through the efforts of a kind individual. The school, which was leaking profusely from its...

Published:Monday | July 19, 2021 | 12:07 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

A new transportation centre to be built in Port Antonio, is expected to ease traffic congestion and provide adequate parking for public passenger vehicles plying the easterly and westerly route in Portland. Last Thursday, a team from the Factories...

Published:Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 5:50 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Informal settlers occupying lands at Bryan’s Bay and at the old marina in Port Antonio, Portland, are fearful that their lives and property will be under serious threat in the event of a hurricane, or during persistent...

Published:Wednesday | July 14, 2021 | 12:13 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

Constituents of Portland Eastern are clamouring for the naming of standard-bearers to fill the power vacuum in the Fellowship and Fairy Hill municipal divisions since the deaths of councillors Irvin Brown and Derron Wood, respectively. Residents of...

Published:Wednesday | July 14, 2021 | 12:06 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

BUFF BAY, Portland: A murder suspect who fled St Lucia after allegedly killing a man was captured in Portland by the police during a raid conducted on Sunday in Buff Bay. Police authorities in St Lucia have revealed that 27-year-old Jamaican...

Published:Monday | July 12, 2021 | 12:09 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Relief agencies in Portland are now bracing for an influx of Haitian boat people arriving in the northeastern parish following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise and fears that the political turmoil in the CARICOM...

Published:Saturday | July 10, 2021 | 12:09 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer

West Retreat, Portland: A teenager is dead while a man is now battling for life at the Port Antonio Hospital following a horrific three-vehicle accident along the West Retreat main road in Portland shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday. The deceased,...

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