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...
The St Catherine North police have launched an investigation into the disappearance of a colleague’s motor car from the precincts of the Parish Court in Spanish Town on Monday, May 17. Reports are that the police sergeant parked his Toyota Fielder...
A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of his eight-year-old stepson. The sentence was handed down on Dwayne Thomas in the St Catherine Circuit Court on May 14. When Thomas appeared before Justice Courtney Daye,...
The mother of two children who were savagely chopped and left to die is pleading for help for the teenagers, who still bear physical and psychological scars. The sentencing of 24-year-old Timothy Tulloch, who pleaded guilty, was postponed on May 10...
Claudette Whittle has been plunged into a state of distress after the exhumation yesterday of a body in a shallow grave in Kitson Town, St Catherine, which is believed to be that of her brother Lloyd Grant who went missing about a month ago. “Is...
For more than 29 years, residents of Gully Road have been waiting on piped water, which is a luxury they have not had. When The Gleaner team visited the rural farming community, nestled between Watermount, and Pointhill, Mendez district in west...
Insurance agent George Sutherland knows a lot about the rewards and dangers of risk. And that’s why the 26-year-old was fired up to launch a new eatery on Main Street in Bog Walk, St Catherine. The restaurateur said he was determined not to fall in...
A LEADING child-rights advocate has called for the Government to punish sexual predators by severing their “most treasured organ”. The urging has come amid a wave of reports of sexual abuse against children across Jamaica, the latest being last...
Jody-Ann Elliot and her partner Casmore Smith have carved out an enduring woodcraft business at ‘Rasta Corner’ in Free Town, Clarendon. The driveway to their small, humble, board structure is a mishmash of creations – chopping boards, mixing bowls...
Former 2016 People’s National Party candidate for the West Central St Catherine constituency, Clinton Clarke, won a case filed against him by Councillor of the Ginger Ridge Division Ralston “John” Wilson. Clarke was dragged before the civil...
President of the Ginger Ridge Community Development Committee (CDC), Devon Wills, has raised concern about the water crisis afflicting several St Catherine districts and is appealing for the intervention of the authorities. “We need the promised...
The relaxation of the tough lockdowns that have crippled weekend commerce across Jamaica for three weeks will likely be welcome news for micro and small business operators battered by the slump in sales. Clinton Duffus knows well the financial pain...
When the bills started to pile up and the profit in the family catering business dwindled with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, St Catherine resident Glenford Graham decided it was time to start new venture. “I know from experience that people...
Daniel Edwards, a grade three student of the Kitson Town Primary School,was smiling broadly after he received a tablet computer to help him with his online lessons. “I am thankful that I have received this (the tablet) which will make me do my work...
Nestled in the rural community of Kitson Town, St Catherine, Something Country’s products have a unique base ingredient: breadfruit. The bakery is owned and operated by Karlene Johnson, a teacher with a Bachelor’s degree in literatures in English...
Terri-Ann Thompson was one of scores of shoppers who crammed the Bog Walk town centre on Saturday as commuters stocked up on food and other supplies before the second phase of the long Easter weekend lockdown that started at noon. The extended...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) was yesterday plunged into mourning as its director of complaints, Nigel Morgan, died from complications associated with COVID-19. Morgan, who was admitted to hospital, reportedly passed away...
With tens of thousands of workers pushed on to the unemployment line by COVID-19’s economic crunch, vendors at the Princess Market in Spanish Town said that their already dwindling sales will be further eroded by the weekend lockdowns. The...
Change. That’s the only constant that has come to define the last 12 months for a St Catherine-based restaurant operator who has learnt to sway with each lurch of a pandemic roller coaster. Pauline Sinclair, who operates Di Lip Smacking Kitchen in...
Farmers in Brown’s Hall, St Catherine, have lamented about the impact of water shortages on their livelihoods. On Saturday, two days before the commemoration of World Water Day, water was everywhere in Brown’s Hall, except in the pipes. Jorvan...
