Dr Mark Smith’s story of overcoming a tough upbringing is built on resilience and a drive to succeed in order to do good, not just for himself and his family, but for the wider community. For him, lessons were learnt the hard way. And he learnt...
United States (US) vice president, Kamala Harris, still draws strong support from her father’s hometown of Brown’s Town in St Ann, Jamaica. There is firm belief among some residents in the town that Harris should be the Democratic party’s candidate...
Eighteen-year-old Donovan Plunkett, a graduate of Prospect College, recently made history when he became Jamaica’s youngest firefighter. Plunkett, who underwent training at the Madge Saunders Conference Centre in Tower Isle, St Mary, is currently...
Celebrating 30 years of Rebel Salute didn’t require any special performances by the exponents of good reggae music on Friday night’s line-up because, quite frankly, they’ve been doing it collectively, for three decades and more. So, Friday night at...
Pastor of the Ocho Rios Circuit of Baptist Churches in St Ann, Rev Johnathan Hemmings, has published his first book, Peacemaking – Creation’s God-Given Vocation. The book was launched at a small ceremony at the church on Monday, July 4 and is...
There were mixed views from residents in Western St Mary yesterday but embattled Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Montague still holds the majority support of constituents after resigning from the Andrew Holness-led Cabinet late Friday night...
Three persons lost their lives along the Llandovery main road in St Ann in the early hours of New Year’s Day when a Toyota Coaster bus and a Toyota Axio motor car collided. Two of the victims have been identified as Carson Whittaker, 28, who was...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in St Mary Western are backing their member of parliament (MP), Robert ‘Bobby’ Montague, to be returned as chairman as the party’s annual conference unfolds this weekend. While there have been no open...
Residents of St Ann’s Bay in St Ann were sent into a state of shock on Saturday morning, when news broke that a man had been beheaded in the town. The incident reportedly occurred before daylight, close to the transportation centre in the seaside...
SHERICKA JACKSON’S bronze-medal winning performance in the 100-metre final yesterday lit up the entire Shaw Park Heights community in Ocho Rios, with her emotional dad, Desmond Jackson, pouring out his love for his daughter when he spoke with The...
Thursday’s attempted robbery of two tourists who had gone horseback riding in the Laughing Waters area of St Ann has drawn the ire of tourism stakeholders. “This is a cause for concern but I’m happy no one was hurt,” Vana Taylor, chairperson of...
Despite being declared as one of the current hotspots for COVID-19 transmissions in the island, the parish of St Ann has a recovery rate that is higher than the national trend. Noting that the recovery rate for St Ann is over 85 per cent, medical...
ST ANN: While the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on many lives worldwide, including in Jamaica, for one young St Ann woman it has actually helped to make her dream come true. When Ocho Rios-based early childhood teacher Terrie-Ann Mesquita...
Retired Baptist minister, the Reverend Alberga Oliver (A.O.) Fraser, marked his 100th birthday on Tuesday at his home in Marvin’s Park, Ocho Rios, with a steady stream of persons made up of family members, friends, and other well-wishers, turning...
Up to press time last night, the police were yet to identify the bodies of three men discovered along a lonely road yesterday in Yelland, a community near Watt Town in St Ann. The bodies appeared to have gunshot wounds and bring to four the...
St Ann attorney-at-law Marsha Leonette Smith is set to follow her father, Ernest ‘Ernie’ Smith, into representational politics after all but securing the candidacy to replace Shahine Robinson as the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) candidate for North...
Women who suffer domestic violence and other forms of abuse are getting professional assistance from the Break Free Exodus Movement, an organisation founded in 2016 by Rosanne Reid, who, herself, is a survivor of domestic abuse. “The Break Free...
In those days, the congregation at the New Testament Church of God in Bamboo, St Ann, and the one in Lower Buxton, some 10 miles away, usually visit each other’s church, alternately. It was on the occasion of one of those visits, in the autumn of...
