After decades of living in squalor within the shantytowns of Kingston Western, some residents are now banking on a new housing development in the area to improve their living conditions. Ground for the Victoria Palms development was broken on...
The community of Cheswick in eastern St Thomas has been contending with erratic water supply for decades. When Diane Wilson was 16 years old, she recalled having to make numerous trips, with a bucket of water atop her head, to and from her home...
An unfinished and abandoned community centre, on which construction work was halted for reasons unknown, stands as a stark metaphor for the entire district of Cheswick in St Thomas, which residents painfully lament has been neglected for years....
“You are not forgotten,” Morant Bay May Michael Hue told residents of Cheswick in St Thomas on Tuesday, trying to reassure them as the Government prepares to invest millions in improving “non-existent” infrastructure in the district. Hue was...
Residents and business persons in Spanish Town have clamoured for increased investment in safety and security as well as greater infrastructural development before an Emancipation Park-style recreational space is established in the Old Capital....
Maxine Sutherland-Jenkins is in emotional turmoil as her farmworker husband, Samuel Jenkins, lies in a hospital bed battling Stage Four cancer of the liver and spleen at The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). Jenkins, a family...
The children of the Port Royal Primary and Infant School were fêted on Friday by the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) as the state entity formally adopted the Kingston-based educational institution ahead of the new academic year. The day’s events were...
The chief executive officer of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) has stared down a rebellion and rejected as overblown the noisy resistance to draft legislation governing the licensing of teachers. Dr Winsome Gordon, who broke her silence in a...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is lamenting the state of the Washington Boulevard corridor, noting that the area is in need of attention, not only to address traffic concerns, but to improve the look of the entrance to the metropolis. “ ... As you...
As the clock winds down to September 5, school administrators are fine-tuning pandemic-shelved programmes to be reintroduced and carrying out repairs to run-down facilities to start the 2022-2023 academic year with a bang. At Calabar Infant,...
St Catherine schools are bracing for battle as the new academic year beckons in September. But the test for many of them is not academic, though they are fighting for hearts and minds. The challenge, for some, is also existential. Naggo Head...
It was not surprising that of the 80 students who participated in a weeklong robotics camp organised by the Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) Foundation and Halls of Learning, Robeano Davis came out on top with a quadruple victory. Given his...
Distributors and whole-salers of liquor and non-alcoholic beverages are being forced to put added pressure on customers to return empties in order to purchase drinks as the global glass bottle crisis persists. Clement Stevens, director of Papine...
As Jamaica’s monkeypox case count inches up weekly, hospitals and other healthcare facilities have bolstered efforts to stem the virus’ spread. Dr Michael Bent, regional technical director at the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA), said the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has bemoaned that not enough local professionals are cashing in on Jamaica’s culture as he made a rallying cry for more people to join the orange economy. He was speaking on Wednesday at a ground-breaking ceremony...
High teacher migration rates are raising a new threat to school administrations beyond the struggle of stretching manpower. Principals are now facing the dilemma of perhaps abandoning some curriculum programmes in the upcoming academic year amid...
It was a chilling experience for businesswoman Anika Tate, who was awakened by explosions outside her home Sunday morning. She watched in shock, on a CCTV camera monitor, as unidentified assailants firebombed her establishments. The incident...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday said he envisions a future in which the Court of Appeal is viewed as a “world-class” court. Noting strides made in recent years to have the court staffed with a full complement of judicial clerks, the...
The Government is now seeking contractors to undertake a massive overhaul at the Spanish Town Hospital amid rising demand for services and a boom in road and housing construction projects across St Catherine. “It’s been a long journey that we have...
Jamaica-born civil-rights activist Roy Hackett has been lauded for his unwavering commitment to ensuring that black and Asian minorities in the United Kingdom had equal opportunity in employment and that they were spared discrimination on the...
Keith Slayter made the Emancipation Day celebrations in Top Hill, St Catherine, a family affair as he brought his nine- and 15-year-old sons to see donkeys race for the very first time in their lives. Slayter, who travelled from Kingston for the...
Retired Sergeant Peter Xavier Williams, who assisted in hoisting the Jamaican flag on August 5, 1962, an hour before midnight, signalling Jamaica’s political Independence, says it was a privilege to play a role in the joyous and historic occasion....
JAMAICA’S FORESTRY Department is eyeing the use of high-tech devices, such as the Huawei Technologies and Rainforest Connection-developed ‘The Guardian’, to assist with monitoring and preserving the island’s forest reserves. The Guardian is an...
School administrators have expressed confidence that the national school Nutrition Policy will be effective in reducing the high rates of non-communicable diseases, such as childhood obesity, once implemented. Key stakeholders, including canteen...
Residents across several St Catherine communities have welcomed the announcement byPrime Minister Andrew Holness that measures are now in place to rid the streets of noisy bikers who have been proving a nuisance to persons in their communities,...
