Securing the future of some 46 special-needs students in Clarendon is how Juliet Francis-Christian, unit supervisor at the Denbigh-based Windsor School of Special Education, describes the prospects for the start of a fruit garden project at the...
Additional garbage trucks have been deployed to ease Clarendon’s garbage crisis, according to Edward Muir, regional operations manager for Southern Parks and Markets (SPM) Waste Management Ltd, a subsidiary of the National Solid Waste Management...
Former May Pen Mayor Scean Barnswell has criticised the Government for not extending COVID-19 restrictions when the orders under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) expired a few weeks ago, citing this as the reason for the current fifth wave...
Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture Lothan Cousins has blasted the Government for its failure to contain the country’s food import bill and perceived mishandling of water resources. Cousins said that a US$97-million increase in Jamaica’s food...
I made a mistake, but I deserve a chance. That’s the plea of Rahmone Taylor, who is ruing decisions and choices he made in his youth. Taylor was deported from the United States over a decade ago following ganja-related charges. The Rock River,...
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is unfazed by a threat by his opposition counterpart, Lothan Cousins, to take the Government to task for not doing enough for the sector when Parliament sits today. Speaking at the People’s...
A Clarendon school operator has slammed national training agency HEART/NSTA Trust for crushing the future of many at-risk youths by terminating a partnership with Meadowlands Centre of Excellence in Bushy Park. Sharon Minott, director of...
It has been a week of torture and sleepless nights for 29-year-old Jameal Mendez, Sr since the mystery disappearance of his only child, a two-year-old boy named after him. While the family, concerned neighbours and the police have combed multiple...
The mother of missing two-year-old Jahmeal Mendez believes that a sudden urge to scroll through photos of her young son might have been an omen that something was wrong. That intuition caused 26-year-old Kera Williams, of Rasta Corner in Free Town...
Grieving students, colleagues and community folk gathered at the Vere Technical High School in Clarendon yesterday, struggling to come to terms with the death of Principal Antoinette Banton-Ellis, who died suddenly on Thursday evening. Sources told...
Stakeholders in Gravel Hill, Clarendon, have been assured that repairs to the deplorable roads in the south-western Clarendon community will commence by this summer. The repairs are to be undertaken by bauxite/alumina company Jamalco. The company...
Natasha Williams-Whittingham has not found the going easy, but, each time she contemplates giving up, the love for her children and a burning desire to see them excel keeps the single mother going. “Giving up is the last thing in my head, but...
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) says it is committed to providing safer roads for the nation’s children through its Safe Passage: Safe Routes to School project, a partnership with the Ministry of Education. The project, under the...
Irate taxi operators and residents blocked a section of the York Town road in Clarendon yesterday morning, disrupting commute and forcing some students to miss the first day of the summer term. The protesters argued that heavy-duty vehicles...
Thirty-four days behind bars, sleeping on cardboard on a concrete floor, and unsanitary living conditions are dreaded experiences Saheem Whittaker is adamant he will not relive. Whittaker says those experiences have propelled him to choose a better...
News of stabbing deaths involving teens has evoked fear and anxiety for Latoya Francis. She said she had always prayed that such pain would never visit her doorstep, but on March 3, cruel fate came knocking at her door. Her 15-year-old cousin,...
Christian leaders basked in the promise of hope yesterday as for the first time since 2020, they were able to gather in large numbers to celebrate Good Friday, reflecting on Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for mankind. Good Friday commemorates the...
The shooting death of an eight-year-old Clarendon boy has shocked his community, with peers and teachers at the Race Course Primary and Infant School jolted by news of a third tragic death in two weeks. Thomas James Jr was shot in the head on...
The stepmother of murdered 17-year-old student Jason Whyte Jr is still in disbelief that the Central High schoolboy won’t push open the door to their home in Effortville, Clarendon. Residents of Sevens Heights, also in the central Jamaica parish,...
Micey Walters, the mother of two infants who perished in a fire in Hayesfield in Race Course, Clarendon, on March 24, was granted bail in the sum of $800,000 when she appeared in the Clarendon Parish Court yesterday. The 27-year-old mother is...
Last Thursday, Conroy Morgan and his wife celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary. But in a cruel twist of fate, the celebratory spirit in the family home was short-lived. Morgan, the family’s sole breadwinner, was stabbed to death on Monday,...
The last words 13-year-old Omarion Haniford reportedly cried out after he was stabbed two days ago are seared into the memory of his mother, who is still traumatised after a seemingly routine Sunday morning was transformed into a hellish...
There is high hope that the recent full-scale resumption of face-to-face classes will reignite the interest of students and teachers alike in mathematics – a subject that continues to record underperformance in primary and secondary schools. That...
Decoy Royal recounts his years as a teen selling okra in the May Pen market in Clarendon as the most difficult years of his life. The 28-year-old, now an agriculture teacher and supervisor for the crop production department at the College of...
Sisters Donnisha, Donya and Donneilla personify the algebraic expression, ‘to the third power’. The three sisters have many things in common, but their love for arithmetic and number theory, geometry, teaching and mathematics take precedence. The...
