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...
Investigators are still searching for clues behind the death of Ava Thelwell, the 49-year-old internal auditor who the police believe deliberately drove off Flat Bridge last Friday. Thelwell, a mother of two adult sons, is believed to have gone...
For Garfield Bryan, tilapia fish farming has been his way of life from he was a teenager, and it is the only trade he knows best. “I have been involved in raising fish from I was a teenager and observed some elders in the area (Hartlands St...
A bit of apprehension hangs over Old Harbour Bay in St Catherine as residents keep their fingers crossed that no significant weather system will affect the area during the hurricane season. “We in these parts suffer a great deal as we are at the...
Despite the excitement of finding a turtle and catching fish at her gate in Strathmore Gardens, St Catherine, Tracey Hamilton is not wishing for a return of the circumstances which led to such events. In fact, she is looking forward to the...
It was a brighter atmosphere which engulfed the Hellshire Beach in St Catherine yesterday as dark clouds of despair began dissipating on the first day of the reopening of beaches and rivers across the island. Shuttered for much of the past year due...
The hurricane season perennially strikes crippling fear into residents of the rural St Catherine district of Bannister. And few have suffered more than Christine Cox. She is still haunted by the nightmare of murky water that flooded her premises...
A dump. That’s the long and short of the No. 5 Cemetery in Spanish Town, metres away from the blighted high-rises of Tawes Pen in the distance. Situated at the vertex of Manchester Street, Chambers Lane, and Wellington Street, the burial ground has...
Hartlands resident Ella Turner vividly remembers May 2002 as if it were yesterday. That was the fateful month when a dreadful auto crash left her paralysed from the waist down. She describes the memories as painful. Turner, 52, was on her way home...
Even as kitchens evolve with modern conveniences, coal producers continue to keep the fire burning and pots bubbling in the homes of St Catherine’s rural heartland. Residents can still be seen hauling bags of the pitch-black gold along streets of...
