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Published:Sunday | October 17, 2021 | 12:05 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Hanover Custos Dr David Stair still fondly recalls the days when the parish capital Lucea was the envy of other destinations. Back then, Hanover had a vibrant agricultural sector, with Lucea becoming a booming commercial centre and important export...

Published:Sunday | October 10, 2021 | 12:09 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

There is still no word from the Office of the Prime Minister as to whether it will heed to the plea for help from Montego Bay businessman Gordon Baldie to save his business. Nonetheless, 51-year-old Baldie, CEO of Inter-Caribbean Automotive Parts...

Published:Saturday | October 9, 2021 | 12:11 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

The Government’s development of Falmouth as a premier tourism destination is being matched by millions of dollars in private investment throughout Trelawny, but indigenous stakeholders are not satisfied with the involvement of locals in planning...

Published:Sunday | October 3, 2021 | 3:06 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

A businessman facing millions of dollars in losses after being evicted from a warehouse had leased from the state-owned Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) after falling behind in payments is calling for the intervention of Prime Minister Andrew...

Published:Sunday | October 3, 2021 | 12:07 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

With no apparent end to the senseless killings in Granville, St James, several residents have packed their bags and fled the community as splintered groups from the notorious MS-13 and Big Yard gangs continue their reign of terror. Over the years,...

Published:Saturday | October 2, 2021 | 12:12 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Following last week’s Sunday Gleaner article ‘Hard road to an honest living’ about 26-year-old Jason Cargill*, the single parent who resisted the temptation of a life of crime to make ends meet, scores of persons have reached out with words of...

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:12 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

At 10 years old, he watched as both the police and gangsters invaded his home in search of his two older siblings, who were criminals. By age 15, he was left to fend for himself after his mother left to seek greener pastures in the United States,...

Published:Sunday | August 8, 2021 | 12:11 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Despite a valiant effort by the organisers to create a safe space for the staging of the much-watched Dream Weekend party series currently underway in Negril, Westmoreland, there are serious concerns among stakeholders that indiscipline patrons and...

Published:Sunday | August 8, 2021 | 12:10 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

The international community claims it is unsafe for visitors, and locals consider it an eyesore and a haven for criminals, but while killings continue unabated throughout St James, this usually disruptive inner-city community has not recorded a...

Published:Sunday | August 1, 2021 | 1:35 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Encouraged by the number of persons who turned up to be inoculated across the country yesterday, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is now eyeing an ambitious 800,000 additional Jamaicans receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, which would take Jamaica...

Published:Monday | June 28, 2021 | 12:06 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Residents in Norwood, St James say gang warfare and political interference have prevented the sustainable execution of social intervention programmes in the volatile community, leaving them to fend for themselves over the years. The community is...

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2021 | 9:39 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

CONFIDENT that he still enjoys the “full” support of the people of Westmoreland Central and declaring that his work there is far from over, embattled member of parliament George Wright says he is staying put in representational politics. In fact,...

Published:Sunday | May 16, 2021 | 12:13 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

With very limited opportunities available to improve their lives in the poverty-stricken communities of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, the scores of school leavers in the area are being lured into a life of crime and gang violence. Grange Hill, which...

Published:Sunday | May 2, 2021 | 12:21 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Despite their different political affiliations, former members of parliament for Westmoreland Central, Dr Karl Blythe and Russell Hammond, are united in their support for calls for the incumbent, George Wright, to resign. Wright, who was elected to...

Published:Sunday | May 2, 2021 | 12:18 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Wooed by the prospects of living in a gated community with a promise of several amenities, residents of Culloden by the Sea in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, have been left holding the bag in an unsecured scheme with several undeveloped properties...

Published:Sunday | April 25, 2021 | 12:28 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

It is not very often that Canon Hartley Perrin, rector of the St Peter’s Anglican Church in Petersfield, Westmoreland, can recall his church member George Wright being absent from Sunday worship since the embattled member of parliament (MP) was...

Published:Sunday | April 18, 2021 | 12:20 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

With reports emerging that some workers in the local tourism sector have been threatened that they will lose their jobs if they do not take the COVID-19 jab, at least one attorney believes that employers could be on solid ground in taking such a...

Published:Sunday | March 21, 2021 | 12:39 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

The administrators of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of four critically ill COVID-19 patients at the facility last Thursday night. Reliable...

Published:Sunday | March 21, 2021 | 12:35 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

As St James battles a continued rise in COVID-19 cases and a public heath system under severe pressure, rogue villas, taxi operators, businesses and illegal parties are being fingered as the major sources of concern in the fight to bring infection...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2020 | 8:25 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Still smarting from his loss to political neophyte Tamika Davis of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the September 3 general election, Ian Hayles, the People’s National Party (PNP) caretaker for Western Hanover, believes factions among Comrades in...

Published:Sunday | January 5, 2020 | 12:47 AMMark Titus - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Improper disposal of waste continues to be the biggest contributor to the problem of rat infestation affecting Montego Bay, St James, but stakeholders in other western parishes are confident they are winning the battle to rid their communities of...

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