Evergreen Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is urging sportswomen to continue to advocate for gender equaity in track and field and other disciplines and not be overshadowed by male dominance. Fraser-Pryce, 34, has caught a second wind...
The students, teachers, and staff of Waterford Primary School in St Catherine enjoyed cheer and blessings of the Yuletide season with the establishment of a Christmas village on the school compound. This initiative, according to the principal,...
For decades, people, especially in the rural communities of Jamaica, have benefited from the local government work programme, also known as ‘bullo wuk’. On Friday, December 10, The Gleaner news team went to the upper regions of West Central St...
A massive fire that consumed three buildings in the heart of Spanish Town on Wednesday has disrupted post-mortem examinations at Archer’s Funeral Home and caused heartbreak for householders and school authorities. A house and early childhood school...
RESIDENTS OF Lluidas Vale can now have quick, easy and convenient access to browse the Internet courtesy of the Universal Service Fund (USF). Millicent Belcher expressed appreciation that Wi-Fi was installed in the park in the North West St...
When Margaret Jenkins purchased a black and white ram for $25,000 for a get-together at Christmas, the last thing she expected was for it to be snatched from her veranda. When she woke up last Wednesday, the only sign left behind was the length of...
CHIEF EXECUTIVE officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), Daniel Dawes, has revealed that the organisation will finance the tuition of persons who matriculate to university under the Technical Advance Programme (TAP). “We will pay 100 per cent...
Farming has been traditionally considered a back-breaking job, but Serian Clarke has endured the hardships and is making a living as a farmer. Clarke, who lives in Jeffrey Town, St Mary, is often seen working in her cabbage field. She cultivates...
With more than 30 districts and some 10,000 residents to serve, police personnel at the Glengoffe Police Station in St Catherine have been suffering with unsanitary conditions and structural deficiencies. The building, which was built in the early...
The tattered clothing and the stench that emanated from Stafford Malcolm is a far cry from better days when he was employed to one of Jamaica’s largest commercial banks. Malcolm now lives under a culvert in the rural township of Glengoffe district...
While many have commended the Government for its recent adjustments in the Disaster Risk Management Act, the operator of a funeral home is asking for leniency. Peter Perry, the managing director of Perry’s Funeral Home in Spanish Town, St Catherine...
The pothole-riddled roads throughout the Charlemont Housing Scheme in northwest St Catherine have fuelled the wrath of residents, who have spearheaded a petition to get the Government’s attention. “We sent a petition with over 200 signatures to...
When Leslie Lewis got a call about his cousins yesterday, he thought he would have been reminded to transport one of them to Kingston as planned. He was stunned to discover he would be visiting a murder scene as 69-year-old Christine Lewis, a...
Residents of Springfield district in Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, have called for the addition of a homework centre to complement the work of its community club. Lynworth Brown, president of the organisation, said that stakeholders would be able to...
St Catherine West Central Member of Parliament Dr Christopher Tufton said that the $73-million Green Acres Police Station is on the verge of being open. Tufton told The Gleaner that documentation relating to the supplies of utilities has been...
For more than 40 years, whenever there is a forecast of rain, residents of Hoose Avenue in Monticello worry about the double dilemma of improper drainage. Residents of the St Catherine community said the avenue needs urgent attention as their...
Nickiesha Myers smiled broadly as she basked in appreciation of the spanking new accommodation that her children can call home, sweet home. The outpouring of support came in response to an August 5, 2021, Gleaner report on the dire conditions under...
Twenty students drawn from five primary schools in St Catherine were awarded equal shares of a donation of $200,000 from the Beecher Foundation on October 2. The awards of $10,000, along with a medal and copy of the Bible, was in recognition for...
Residents along Milton Place and South Parade in Portsmouth, Portmore, can hardly catch a breath of fresh air. The source of their angst is overflowing sewage from two manholes that has left a terrible smell – and stigma – hanging over the...
Ina Rankine would have turned 100 on December 4. But a mysterious fire on September 22 dashed hopes of a centenary celebration for the elderly woman who died in her home on Old Road in Kitson Town, St Catherine. Rankine, who was alone at the time...
It was the maternal connection between a goat and its young that assisted residents of a St Catherine community to nab suspected goat thieves. Three men were arrested and a motor car seized by the Guanaboa Vale police in an incident in Bendon...
Almost two dozen detainees were taken into custody on Tuesday as the St Catherine North police stepped up security operations in the division with snap raids in crime hotspots, including Lakes Pen, Ellerslie Pen, Tawes Pen, and Spanish Town proper...
When Glenroy Brown took his 75-year-old mother, Anita Brown, to be vaccinated against COVID-19 last Friday, he believed he had given her insurance against severe illness and death and had already started making arrangements for her to get the...
Health officials in St Catherine have reported being heartened by the pace of student vaccinations across the central Jamaica parish, pledging to ramp up their campaign in densely populated urban communities. Schools have become key launching pads...
Primary Exit Profile (PEP) high achiever Andriel Whonder of Kitson Town Primary School in St Catherine exuded pride and determination as he and three other students were honoured on September 2. “It feels good to be awarded. It was as a result of...
