It was a bittersweet moment at Clarendon College in Chapelton on Tuesday, as the key to a new Toyota Hiace bus was handed over to the school – a project by the institution’s graduating class of 1983. A sombre mood clouded the honorary moment, as...
Security concerns are mounting among staff at Clarendon College in Chapelton after the school’s groundsman was killed on the compound Sunday night. The victim, 37-year-old Roydel Senior, also known as ‘Tay’, was reportedly gunned down sometime...
Living at the back of the world is how residents in Sandy River in northern Clarendon describe their water woes. Residents bemoan that they have been forced to live without the commodity for decades and are demanding some redress to the situation....
Shirley McIntosh, the mother of Rastafarian teen Nzinga King who alleged that her dreadlocks were trimmed by a corporal while she was in custody, is furious about the pace of the investigation into her daughter’s claims. King’s story sparked...
A game-changer in the educational system is how Raphael Beckford, information technology teacher at Lennon High School in Mocho, Clarendon, described Huawei Technologies’ donation of an IdeaHub interactive panel to the institution. The IdeaHub...
THE RESUMPTION of face-to-face classes for some schools has residents in sections of Clarendon North Western on tenterhooks. Residents in Grantham, Peckham and surrounding communities say children are at great risk, citing possible dangers amid...
Jamaica crossed the psychological milestone of administering one million COVID-19 jabs on Sunday, an important benchmark of progress amid strong scepticism and pushback nationally. The target was achieved more than three weeks ahead of the end-of-...
A fire that gutted the Jamalco alumina plant in Clarendon on August 22 is said to be the cause of delayed road repairs that were to be carried out by the company on sections of the Rhymesbury and Gravel Hill roads in the parish. The disclosure was...
When Jodi-Ann Blackwood Maxwell’s 27-year-old mother died from cancer when she was nine, she said life was hard. But the experience of growing up without her mother is what is fuelling her own fight with the dreaded disease. “I am not going to...
Jamaican author Professor Charles Mills was lauded as one of the world’s best philosophers during a virtual tribute two Sundays ago. Mills, the author of the award-winning book The Racial Contract, died on September 20 after battling cancer. He was...
Farmers in Bog Hole, Clarendon, are citing a bleak Christmas. They say their hopes of a profitable Yutletide season have been dampened by flood rains associated with tropical storms Grace and Ida in August. Last month, the Government announced that...
Amoy Johnson’s story epitomises the notion that one act of kindness can change a person’s life. On September 30, Nurse Faustina Richards collected remittances from a Western Union outlet in May Pen, Clarendon, with the intention to pay a bill....
The Government is hoping to deliver one million COVID-19 jabs by the end of November, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said. “That is not impossible and not necessarily a very difficult task,” Holness said of the million-mark goal...
The re-emergence of the dreaded African swine fever is weighing heavily on the minds of pig farmers across Jamaica. Dr Osbil Watson, chief veterinary officer in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, said that with the disease usually...
The teacher of eight-year-old Xavier Phillips, who was shot dead at a football field in Howells Content, Clarendon, five months ago, told mourners yesterday that she has been finding it difficult to remove his name from her register. Jacqueline...
A Clarendon family is furious over allegations that their relative died after being deprived of oxygen at the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon, where she was admitted on September 6. Shericka Cameron, daughter of the deceased, told The Gleaner that a...
Residents of Longwood district in Race Course, Clarendon, are lamenting that they have been dealt a raw deal by light and power company Jamaica Public Service (JPS). The residents told The Gleaner that they have been experiencing extensive daily...
The bloodstained floor and mattresses bore the gruesome reminder of gun violence that claimed the lives of the parents of an eight-year-old boy and two others in southwestern Clarendon on Sunday. The child’s father, 25-year-old Michael Solomon; his...
THE FREE Town Church of God of Prophecy Outreach Foundation in Clarendon brought good cheer to students and residents on Friday. Three students received scholarships valued at $20,000 each, courtesy of Pencils4Kids and a resident from the community...
At least two Clarendon principals are lamenting a decline in registration of new students for the new academic year that officially starts today. Nadine Gayle-Little, principal of Beulah All-Age School, said that the institution usually has an...
Clarendon South Western Member of Parliament (MP) Lothan Cousins is crying foul, alleging that the Government is playing politics with COVID-19 shots as his constituency is the only one in the parish without a vaccination site. Cousins, the sole...
The completion of a 40-bed field hospital in May Pen, Clarendon, is expected to relieve some of the burden on public-health facilities in the parish with the sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases. Acting chief executive officer (CEO) of the...
As rains associated with Tropical Storm Ida pelted the island last Friday, Christal Campbell watched as her furniture floated in her house; then something sank – it was her heart. Campbell said she was next to tears when her eight-year-old daughter...
When Clinton Boothe didn’t see his 78-year-old brother-in-law return home all day after trudging off in knee-high water Friday morning, he became haunted by a nagging sense of dread. The body of Dennis Jackson, found slumped over a metal pipe that...
Tropical Storm Ida is estimated to have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to central Jamaica after heavy rains unleashed a trail of destruction in the Clarendon district of Wakefield. That’s the view of Clarendon North Western Member...
