The Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) is to spend $5 million on upgrading the water catchment facility at the Alexandria community hospital in St Ann, according to director, Kemoy Lindsay. Lindsay and Zavia Mayne, member of parliament for South...
The St Ann Fire Department got a boost during May with the addition of seven new firefighters to the parish. This was revealed last Thursday at the monthly general meeting of the St Ann Municipal Corporation when Senior Deputy Superintendent...
Health Minister Christopher Tufton last Thursday officially received, on behalf of the Government, nine of 12 health centres retrofitted under the SMART Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean Project, funded by the United Kingdom’s Department of...
Diego Enrique DeSouza, the 14-year-old Munro College student who died on October 9, has been described as a brilliant student who excelled at both sports and academics. The thanksgiving service for his life, held on Saturday at the Wesley Methodist...
Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke is urging investors to consider building affordable homes for the increasing number of Jamaicans who are now in the market seeking to purchase homes. Addressing the 64th annual awards banquet of...
The North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) has added three new ambulances to its fleet, at a cost of $42 million. The three units were handed over on Friday at NERHA’s offices in Ocho Rios, St Ann with two being assigned to the Port...
News has emerged that 25-year-old District Constable Toyan Ormsby reportedly shot 62-year-old Dawnette Maxwell to death before turning the gun on himself as a mark of revenge, after one of Maxwell's grandsons had refused the lawman's homosexual...
Twenty one Justices of the Peace (JPs), each of whom has served the parish of St Ann for decades, were honoured yesterday. The JPs were given plaques in recognition of their long service at a special ceremony held at the Cardiff...
TOWER ISLE, St Mary:Grade-nine student at St Hilda's Diocesan High School in Brown's Town,St Ann, Shavine Bembridge isthe 2018 recipient of the Osmond Tomlinson Trust Fund Scholarship.Bembridge was selected at the annual awards luncheon at Couples...
It was coming on to crunch time and visual arts students in upper-sixth form at St George's College in Kingston were busily preparing their school based assessments (SBA). Unfortunately for them and for her, tragedy struck as class teacher Jheanell...
