Full-time teacher at Brompton Primary school and part-time pig farmer Garfre Robinson knows all about the struggles of trying to read and perform at an acceptable level. It is this experience that has seen him making the extra effort to sow...
A group of seven students from Kellits High School in Clarendon spent their summer taking part in a digital storytelling video challenge organised by BecauseOneMatters.org. Derrika Logan and Trish-Ann Thomas copped first and second place,...
A south Clarendon mother of a 10-year-old girl is lashing out at those she says are deliberately painting her as a bad mother. Photos have been circulating on social media of maggots in a child’s head, with the allegations that the child, who is...
Fourteen-year-old Central High School grade nine student Areel Foster succumbed to her battle with dengue fever on Wednesday morning at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). The Clarendon-based school and family members are devastated by the tragedy....
University of the West Indies (UWI) law student Monique Clayton has had to put her studies on pause as she could not come up with the money to pay off the outstanding balance that she owes on her tuition fees. She could not sit her exam and now she...
Let's turn over a new leave And baby let's make promises That we can keep And call it a New Year's resolution, hmmm Otis Redding, Carla Thomas - New Year's Resolution Every year, you go through the list of things you want to accomplish for the new year....
The May Pen Business Improvement District (BID) was formed to address the many socio-economic challenges facing the town of May Pen.Now a registered entity with the Companies Office of Jamaica, BID, chaired by businessman Tony Smatt with membership...
I know I misbehaved and you made your mistakes And we both still got room left to grow.And though love sometimes hurts I still put you first And we'll make this thing work But I think maybe we should take it slow.- Ordinary People by John Legend A lot of...
Jamaican gospel pioneers Claudelle Clarke, Shirley Willis and Lester Lewis will be among the Caribbean gospel acts that will be honoured with awards at a special function dubbed Honouring the Legends of Caribbean Gospel Music in Connecticut on...
Students with special needs at Mocho Primary School, as well as those from surrounding areas, can now benefit from a special education unit set up at the school.The unit, a renovation of what was originally the principal's cottage, which was done at...
At the monthly sitting of the Clarendon Municipal Corporation last Thursday, the capital's poor drainage system and the hazard it presents was placed under the microscope.Councillor Scean Barnswell, in referring to the October 1 flood rains which...
May Pen Academy fifth-former Ashanti Copeland is imploring students who suffer at the hands of bullies to talk up, seek help and not take matters into their own hands. She said she paid a high price for not coming to that realisation earlier in life...
For as long as she can remember, Stacy Ann Stoner has always had a desire to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate. It was a burden she bore until December 2014 when she founded the Stoner's Hope Foundation, with the main focus being...
"My experience with Hurricane Gilbert was super. I was 15 going on 16 years old and I remember clearly," said Lisa Kelly who was living in Paisley, Clarendon at the time."I watched from my window. I saw zinc blowing in the air from my...
"I was six years old and living in Palmers Cross, Clarendon at the time. I remembered a mango trees right beside the house swaying and looking as if they would fall."The house was surrounded by mango trees and it was half...
On Saturday, September 22, Richie Stephens, Stitchie, JC Lodge, Junie Ranks, Papa Biggy, Little Pinchers, Souvenir and Gyal Idiot will be performing at the Lithonia City Park in Atlanta, Georgia, with proceeds from the event earmarked for Jamaica....
Most persons dream of finding the perfect one for them and spending the rest of their lives living in blissful harmony. However, real life cannot be scripted like the storybooks, and many find that after the honeymoon, their marriages turn out to be...
Kayon Patton is hoping that exhibiting her designs at the 66th staging of the annual Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial and Food Show will prove beneficial for her Neat Stitch business.Patton, who produces custom-made designs, school uniforms and...
Knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no...
On Tuesday, the Longville Park Baptist Church in Clarendon was transformed into a cultural arena as the congregation celebrated the Emancipation vigil under the theme 'Emancipation Sinting', culminating in the reading of the declaration of freedom....
Kadean Lee, a past student of Foga Road High School and who hails from Treadlight in Clarendon, has completely turned his life around. He recently received the Governor General's Award of Excellence for the county of Middlesex in the 18-24 age group...
The summer holidays will be over soon, and then it will be time to start a new school - be it at the kindergarten, primary, secondary, or tertiary level. Leaving the familiar surroundings of old friends can be discomfiting for some children to...
LONGVILLE PARK, Clarendon:In October 2013, The Gleaner highlighted a story of single father Conroy Nelson of Farm, Effortville, in Clarendon, who took charge of his twin daughters to the admiration of those around him.Almost six years to the date,...
Recently, an outreach saw the Child Development Agency (now Child Protection and Family Service Agencies), Social Development Commission (SDC) and the Community Service and Security Branch of the May Pen Police Station making a visit to the high-...
