Taxi operators and residents in sections of Clarendon North western are bemoaning the deplorable state of the roads, calling for urgent action to address the unbearable situation. Roy Walters, who plies the May Pen to Blackwoods route, told The...
Soothing music, melodious singing and vivacious drama performances catapulted into an evening of arts and entertainment in memory of arts enthusiast and Garvey Maeco High School teacher, Ann-Marie Robb. Robb, who worked at the institution in...
Bringing Mocho, Clarendon, on par with urban areas is how Robert Nesta Morgan, member of parliament for Clarendon North Central, likened the launch of free community Wi-Fi in the Stewarton area of the rural community on Thursday. The free Wi-Fi...
With the full resumption of face-to-face classes today, some schools are still being handicapped by furniture shortage. Violet Thomas-Thompson, president of the Primary and Infant School Principals Association disclosed that the challenge has...
Every year, on March 5, Britni Berry would gift her son toys from his long wish list. Berry still plans on buying her son toys this year, but she will place them atop his grave. Eight-year-old Xavier Phillips, nicknamed ‘Bojo’, was shot dead on a...
Stakeholders of the Foga Road High School in Clarendon have lauded the recently concluded PALS Jamaica ‘We Can Do That!’ programme at the institution. The programme is a partnership between PALS and the United States Agency for International...
A Clarendon father whose two-year-old son was badly bitten, allegedly by a neighbour’s dog, is livid and is demanding that owners do more to keep their animals leashed and confined within their homes. Gregory Bryson, who lives in the central...
FROM A roadside hairdresser to a budding entrepreneur, copping a scholarship and now a final-year university student; Megan Holung, 21, is basking in her success, and triumph over adversities. Holung told The Gleaner that the death of her father,...
It has been days of tears for one Lionel Town, Clarendon, farmer since thieves made off with his herd of 30 cows more than a week ago. Shawn Edwards, who developed a love for farming after his grandfather gifted him some cows as a child, told The...
The curtains came down on a life dedicated to uplifting others on January 16, when educator Eulalee Bailey passed away. Bailey, a former vice-principal of then Frankfield Comprehensive High, now Edwin Allen High School in Frankfield, Clarendon, is...
Two best friends have their hearts on becoming big influencers in the field of law. Allyson Mitchell and Zhara-Marie Henry told The Gleaner that they are ecstatic that after years of being dubbed ‘village lawyers’ in school, their dreams finally...
Taxi operators who ply the Lionel Town route in Clarendon South Eastern are lamenting the delayed response to a collapsed drain along a section of the main road in the community. Motorists describe the collapse as a disaster waiting to happen and...
The Clarendon chapter of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has said that educators in the mid-island parish are enthusiastic about the reopening of schools for face-to-face learning this term despite being on tenterhooks in light of the...
The May Pen-based Young’s Pharmacy in Clarendon brought Christmas cheer to residents in some 10 communities around the parish capital. Residents were given food packages and cash as Christmas gifts. Myrtle Roye, a justice of peace from one of the...
For years, Roydel ‘Tay’ Senior strove to make extra money every Christmas by chauffeuring returning residents. But this year, things have changed. Plans are under way for Senior to be chauffeured - but in a hearse. The late groundsman at Clarendon...
Members of the Free Town Church of God of Prophecy Outreach Foundation in Clarendon are being lauded for their commitment to charity and service. Grateful seniors and students were gifted with care packages at the foundation’s annual Christmas...
Tuesday night’s attack on a family of four in Havannah Heights, Clarendon, is a stark and chilling reminder of the predawn quadruple murder in the community on September 12. Residents in the central Clarendon community have been on tenterhooks...
The May Pen, Clarendon Unit of the Lister Mair/Gilby High School for the Deaf has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic with fluctuating daily attendance in online classes, where, at times, up to 95 per cent of the students are absent....
A PROMISE made and a promise kept – the sentiments echoed by residents at the launch of free community Wi-Fi in Kellits Square in Clarendon on Friday. Enthused residents who gathered at the launch site, eager to connect their devices on Friday,...
Evergreen Clarendon Central Member of Parliament (MP) Mike Henry has confirmed that he wants his protégé, Councillor Joel Williams, to be his successor whenever he demits office in the constituency. However, the 85-year-old MP, who is the oldest...
Donning a peach dress adorned with roses, Jamaica’s oldest resident, Louisea McDonald, embodied her ‘birthday queen’ sash as she rang in her 111th year on Wednesday. McDonald, a retired dressmaker from the rural community of Bog Hole in...
A funding fallout from global donors is threatening to worsen already-waning public education campaigns on HIV/AIDS. Alisha Robb-Allen, acting senior director in the HIV/STI Unit in the Ministry of Health...
Concern is growing about the incidence of HIV among Jamaica’s homeless population amid a 57 per cent rise in infections over seven years among a segment of society’s most vulnerable. Health ministry data show that the infection rate among the...
Ear-piercing screams from mourners echoed in Havannah Heights, Clarendon, on Thursday as the bodies of three victims of the September 12 quadruple murder arrived at the Dynamic Church of God in the community. The sight of the two red and white...
Knox College’s 2021 valedictorian, Trishelle Gooden, is geared towards making a difference in the country’s health sector. With a knack for advocacy, the 17-year-old has combined both her passions – medicine and law – and is now focused on becoming...
