Customers and staff look up to the owner of Kiss Me Neck Restaurant and Bar, Marie Lewis. Lewis started the bar more than 20 years ago, on Salt River Road in Clarendon, naming it after a play in which Jamaican comedian Oliver Samuels starred, she...
Seventeen-year-old Garvey Maceo High School student Janeel Mills has been battling self-doubt and fear of failure for most of her life. Coming from a community she described as having a history of low performance among its youth, she said she...
Afiba ‘Joel’ Clarke is a trained welder but within recent times he has been spending more time on his farm in Redlands, northern Clarendon. When The Gleaner caught up with him recently, he was in the square selling bagged sweet peppers and hot...
Washington ‘Sparrow’ Williams, who retired from his job as a public servant, was doing well buying market produce and reselling in the rural communities. Even with the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, he still managed to eke out a...
Farmers in the Clarendon South constituency can now benefit from the solar-powered irrigation system at the Ebony Park pump. The system, which was officially commissioned into service yesterday via a virtual ceremony, is now the second on the list...
Cara Campbell-Ellis of Danks, Sangster’s Heights, Clarendon, has a heart filled with gratitude, so much so that she cannot contain her happiness. On August 3, her story was published in The Gleaner, highlighting her despair in not being able to...
Frederick Lattray, principal of Lennon High School in Clarendon, has said that he has begun implementing strategies to ensure that the plant is ready to accommodate students come September. Lattray told The Gleaner that prior to the COVID-19...
JOHN BASSIE'S life is all about service. His footprints in arbitration saw him starting the Jamaica chapter of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in the Caribbean in 2007 and going on to forming chapters in other parts of the Caribbean...
The DWL Foundation on Thursday night continued its tradition of honouring volunteers and community workers in the district of Bellevue, St Elizabeth. Among the three recognised for going above and beyond the call of duty in service to the community...
Opposition leader Dr Peter Phillips on Sunday urged Comrades to be prepared. Speaking during a Regional Council Meeting held at the Bridge Palm Hotel in Toll Gate, Clarendon, Phillips, who refrained from singling out any constituency in terms of...
Leroy Jagasar is filled with one passion and that is keeping the culture of Hosay – a Muslim Indo-Caribbean commemoration – alive and flourishing in Jamaica. Acknowledging that there is still much to be done where the impartation of the knowledge...
Farming has been the only thing that Donovan Brooks has known. Growing up with his parents, who were farmers, he never thought of another career. He has been tilling the soil for years and eking out a living for his family. Filled with confidence...
Concerned that the bill for importing red peas is high, Damion Young, operator of Home Grown Produce and Agro-bizz Ltd, has said he is on a mission to revive the industry in Jamaica. “Over the years, it has made farmers insecure and unsure about...
MAY PEN, Clarendon: The State of emergency now in operation in Clarendon took centre stage at Thursday’s monthly sitting of the Clarendon Municipal Corporation. Scean Barnswell, councillor for the Hayes division, said while he welcomed the...
From as far back as he can remember, Neikoy Redwood has always had a fascination with figures – and it is this passion that has nurtured his desire to become an actuary. Redwood, who just completed upper sixth form at Campion College, is now...
Twenty-year-old Kaskmah Brown is overwhelmed with pains and drowning in a sea of debt as she tries to keep up with her special diet and medications. Diagnosed with lupus nephritis since March last year, her world has turned upside down. In the...
MAY PEN, Clarendon: Denise Anderson, mother of Rajay Scarlett, the youngest member on the Vere Technical High School robotics winning team at the Scientific Research Council’s Science and Technology fair early last month is one proud mother. Her...
MAY PEN, Clarendon: Rastafarian Pitter Scarlett is convinced that many Jamaicans who have died from lifestyle-related diseases did not have to face premature deaths. “What’s wrong is that people not really putting out the effort to check herbalists...
In an effort to ensure that their friend’s children matriculate to tertiary institutions, church brothers and sisters in Christendom have made the bold step of standing as guarantors for students’ loans. However, some have found out that this is...
Love and marriage, love and marriage They go together like a horse and carriage Dad was told by mother You can’t have one without the other Love and Marriage – Frank Sinatra The church has a strong stance on having sexual relationship...
Doctor-in-waiting Demar McKenzie has said he feels appreciated after being presented with the Governor General’s Achievement Award recently at the Wembley Centre for Excellence in Clarendon. “Their Excellencies not only acknowledge my perseverance...
Twelve of of Middlesex’s best were honoured last Thursday during the 2019 staging of the Governor General’s Achievement Awards at the Wembley Centre of Excellence. Held under the theme ‘Engaging, Empowering and Inspiring Jamaicans’ the 12 were...
The Clarendon police are warning parents that they will be prosecuted for child neglect if they allow their young ones to roam the streets. Head of the Clarendon Police Division Senior Superintendent of Police Vendolyn Cameron Powell says her team...
As the rainy season approaches, Sheila Mightly is anxious as she knows it will be another period of discomfort, bailing out water and trying to protect her possessions from being destroyed. Life has not been easy for the mother of four who managed...
Driven by their strong desire to bring deliverance to a nation that was crippled emotionally and spiritually from the effects of political rivalry, crime and corruption in the 1970s, young evangelist Herro Blair and his wife Alma responded to the...
