“We are not safe anymore, whether we are involved or not,” were the words of the partner of 66-year-old businessman Maurice Clarke, who was shot and killed in his yard on the Innswood Estate, St Catherine, property by gunmen on Saturday night about...
THIRTY families still occupying sections of the Innswood Estate property lands that have been sold to private interests are seeking assurances from the Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings Limited (SCJ) that they will not be forced off before they are...
SCJ Holdings Limited has refuted claims that it was being inconsiderate when it demolished 15 family homes at Innswood Estates last Saturday. In a release last night, SCJ Managing Director Joseph Shoucair said the state-owned company had exercised...
Residents of a section of Spanish Town in St Catherine are now fearful after a deadly gun attack on Sunday night that left one man dead and another injured as well as his one-year-old daughter. The residents of Letterbox Lane, a part of 41...
SCJ Holdings Limited has been accused of committing a “wicked act” in demolishing the homes of 15 families at Innswood Estates in St Catherine on Saturday morning. The families, who are third-generation occupants of the land owned and controlled by...
The St Catherine Health Department has vowed to intensify COVID-19 mitigation exercises to rein in soaring infections in the parish this month. Chief Public Health Inspector Grayson Hutchinson said that several samples have been submitted to...
Residents of Waterford in Portmore, St Catherine, are calling for urgent upgrades to the community health centre, which they believe has outlived its usefulness due to population growth even as the physical structure deteriorates. Constructed in...
The Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands on Sunday saluted two of its bishops for a combined 98 years of service to the church in a special appreciation service at the Cathedral of St Jago de la Vega in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The...
The family of two-year-old Tayshawn McDonald was in the middle of preparing a pot of soup to serve at a planned memorial for his deceased uncle when tragedy struck. The infant was at his gate playing with his football, while his father was...
Organiser of the annual 10,000 Men and Family’s March in Spanish Town, Bishop Rohan Edwards, said the time has come for pastors to arm themselves to protect their congregation from vicious men. Speaking against the background of Sunday’s killing at...
The community of Benbow, situated about one and a half miles from Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, has had a postal agency serving residents of adjoining communities dating back to the early 1950s. The building has fallen into disrepair over the years,...
The continuing dispute over the proposed Dovecot Memorial Park and Crematorium’s expansion plan has hit another snag, and its operators are now threatening to sue the St Catherine Municipal Corporation after its latest intervention to block the...
The Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine will be able to treat more patients with cardiac complains as a result of the addition of an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine commonly used to detect problems with the heart. The gift, made possible by the...
Some principals of primary and infant schools in North Western St Catherine, who are yet to be given the nod to restart face-to-face learning, are anxiously awaiting approval from the Ministry of Education to do so. The schools that have been...
Sanine Beale, the 25-year-old homeless woman who is currently living at the St Catherine Municipal Corporation’s makeshift tent at the Linstead town centre, did not have to go without food, clothes and other necessaries for the holidays. After The...
The turnout at the annual Christmas Eve grand market in Linstead was severely affected this year because of COVID-19 fears. Thousands of vendors and shoppers who usually fill the Linstead Market, Rose Duncan Square and several main streets in...
Twelve primary schools in St Catherine have reportedly failed Ministry of Health COVID-19 inspections, sparking new worries that parents will be wary of sending out their children for face-to-face classes in January. The schools were inspected two...
Mayor of Spanish Town Norman Scott has appealed to vendors and shoppers who will be in the public space from December 14 to January 4 – the period reserved for holiday shopping – to be mindful that the virus is still raging in the parish. The...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has started the disbursement of relief to 83 fisherfolk from four main fishing beaches in St Catherine and Hunts Bay in St Andrew who have been severely impacted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that there has been an increase in visits to health centres this year, with 1.6 million visits registered since January, 400,000 more than the entire 2019. He is calling on more...
The community surveillance and testing for COVID-19 by the Ministry of Health and Wellness has been receiving moderate response from residents in St Catherine. With some 14 communities visited so far, Marlene Stephenson, senior public health nurse...
Claudia Brown, an unemployed resident of Linstead in St Catherine, was not sure where help would come from to restart her small chicken farm that has been an important source to supplement the family income. Brown was forced to close her chicken...
Government Minister Everald Warmington has said that while a “complete overhaul” is needed for some roads in St Catherine North Eastern, where breakaways and potholes have multiplied due to recent rainfall, there is not enough funds available for...
Residents of Nightingale Grove in St Catherine are being plagued with a sewage problem that is causing grave health concerns to them. The prevailing narrative from the residents of the more than 200 housing units is that a malfunctioning treatment...
The dental unit of the Sligoville Health Centre continues to improve its capacity to deliver first-class oral healthcare to the citizens of the St Catherine community. The dental unit was non-functional for some time, but was recently renovated at...
