For 20 years, Eugene Grandison has operated Farmers Jerk Centre, Restaurant and Bar in Old Harbour, churning out a platter of tasty dishes in the bustling St Catherine township. But constant coronavirus curfews and lockdowns since April 2020 have...
Spring Village, St Catherine, resident, Audrey Richards Malcolm, continues to be haunted by memories of flooding. “It’s constant flooding fi wi,” Malcolm said. “From the road fixed, we have been getting flood out, as the surface gets higher than...
The health hazard from raw sewage flowing from the Cherry Gardens treatment plant in Kitson Town, St Catherine, continues to cause concerns for residents. The pungent odour of the sewage, which has been flowing across the Mary’s Field road for...
Late police Corporal Devon Thomas has been lauded as a faithful crime-fighter who gave yeoman service to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Thomas, 50, was murdered at a bar in Mona Common, St Andrew, in July. He was praised by mourners as a...
THE HISTORIC community of Sligoville in north central St Catherine is longing for ‘Emancipendence’ celebrations which have been the way of life until the COVID-19 pandemic halted festivities. When The Gleaner visited the rural community last week...
Nekeisha Myers didn’t graduate from high school. She has no qualifications. Not even a stove to cook for her family. What she does have are five children in the single-parent household - with the father of at least three of the kids reportedly...
The more-than-two-decade wait for promised changes to regulate the operations of funeral parlours has irked registered members of the industry. Telbert Roberts, public relations officer of the Jamaica Association of Certified Embalmers and Funeral...
It’s been 10 years since the Gorge Inn Restaurant, along Main Street in Bog Walk, St Catherine, opened its doors. And it still holds its reputation for great-tasting and affordable dishes. According to proprietor Oral Clarke, despite the downturn...
The community of Gordon Pen in St Catherine is set to benefit from an upgraded sporting facility courtesy of the Sports Development Foundation (SDF). An initial sum of $35 million has been allocated for the early phases of the project, but the...
Police Sergeant Marlon Smith, the late bodyguard of Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke, was praised last Thursday as a selfless and dependable close protection officer who was a standard-bearer of the values of law enforcement. High-profile attendees...
For three years, Marjorie Gentles, a York Street resident, has had to dig deep into her pockets to pay jacked-up taxi fares and suffer the indignity of motorists refusing to make the journey to her home, because of the deplorable road conditions in...
A father and stepmother who have been charged with child abuse which arose from the death of a child are to reappear in the St Catherine Parish Court on October 27. Those charged are 27-year-old Loraine Fletcher and 39-year-old Rohan Russell, both...
The Government is digitising teacher records and data to make access to personal information easier and to smoothen the collection of pensions after retirement. Minister of Education Fayval Williams made the disclosure during a handover ceremony at...
Latoya Hedge was teary-eyed as she recalled the ill effects of Tropical Storm Elsa, which drenched dozens of her children’s books and left her lamenting thousands of dollars of damage. The 32-year-old mother of three took time out to reveal how...
A man who brutally attacked two sisters aged 11 and 13 with a machete was sentenced to 18 years in prison in the St Catherine Circuit Court. He is Timothy Tulloch, a 25-year-old labourer of Marlie Acres in Old Harbour, St Catherine. In handing down...
Saturday’s second-dose vaccination exercise in St Catherine was low-key, with concerns about looming wind and rain from Tropical Storm Elsa cited as a key reason for the lower-than-expected attendance. But for those who turned out, the second shot...
The dry pipes in sections of Sligoville are a cruel joke to residents who have endured water-supply challenges for as long as they can remember. Karla Beckford said that folks in James Mountain primarily depend on rainfall, as water is supplied to...
Beverage giant Wisynco is forging ahead in its bid to achieve a 60 per cent sales growth of its Bigga sodas in the United Kingdom (UK) market for 2021, and is bullish on profiting from the July 1 easing of COVID-19 restrictions that is expected to...
Police and military personnel swooped down on Kingsland district in Kitson Town, St Catherine, detaining 11 persons who attended a cockfight after curfew on Sunday. Residents of the farming community were surprised when the security forces...
Scores of residents in St Catherine were drawn to the inaugural farmers’ market and economic fair last Friday put on by the Social Development Commission (SDC). The event was the first of its kind to be hosted on the grounds of the SDC. One vendor...
Twenty-four trees weren’t nearly enough for Prime Minister Andrew Holness as he launched an environmental initiative at his alma mater, St Catherine High School, last Friday. He is eyeing more green. “I think that we have enough space for about 240...
Organic farmer Jenore Graham is banking on increased interest in health and well-being as a driver for his investment in vegetable cultivation. A vendor at the famed Coronation Market in Kingston, Graham seriously tried his hand at farming four...
Former Deputy Superintendent of Police Hornet Williams said he walked over five miles to get an education when he was a Rock River Primary School student. Now, he’s hoping to ease the plight of the school’s current crop of students. On Monday,...
Promised remedial works to the Guy’s Hill main road in St Catherine can’t come soon enough for Lennox James. The transport operator, who plies the route from Guy’s Hill to Highgate in St Mary, said the approximately 36-mile-long journey is a horror...
St Catherine resident Anthony Morgan is just about fed up with his much-loved hustle as a diver in the Bog Walk Gorge. Divers in the gorge have long pressed the Government to establish a fund to pay them when they plunge into the murky waters of...
