Despite being trained as a geriatric nurse practitioner, Sheron Taylor is doing what she enjoys best: farming. Taylor has been involved in the cultivation of bananas, plantains, and coconuts in St Mary for the last 15 years. She has transitioned...
HEALTHCARE OFFICIALS have expressed optimism that Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton’s decision on Friday to get the COVID-19 jab will be a shot in the arm for the islandwide vaccination drive. Tufton and Prime Minister Andrew...
Former bank officer Sherwood Simpson said that moving from the comfort of his air-conditioned office to the scorching sun on the Bernard Lodge farmlands may have seemed far-fetched for some professionals, but not for him. Simpson currently has a...
An air of mystery surrounds the death of a man in the Sydenham area of Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday. The deceased, 33-year-old labourer Kenrick Genas, of a Sydenham address, was reportedly shot about minutes after midnight. According to...
Fourteen-year-old Eltham High School student Devaughn Hollingsworth was fatally hit from his bicycle along the Spanish Town Bypass in St Catherine on Wednesday, reportedly on his way to visit another pupil to get access to the Internet. Reports...
The two St Catherine men charged with manslaughter arising from the death of a two-year-old boy are to set to reappear in the St Catherine Parish Court next month. Dead is Tayshawn McDonald of March Pen Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Those...
Eight-year-old Allesha Lawson was a picture of confidence as she recited a poem at the hand over of 26 tablets at the Gregory Park Primary School in St Catherine on Wednesday. She was one of the recipients under the ‘One Laptop or Tablet per Child...
A female pastor has expressed outrage at the sexual assault of two churchwomen in the full view of their mother and called for the Christian community to mount a prayerful war against criminals. Pastor Marlene Martin of the Faith Community Churches...
Funeral directors came in for sharp criticism at last Thursday’s meeting of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation as the health authorities accused them of being negligent in the fight against COVID-19. St Catherine Chief Public Health Inspector...
The St Catherine mother whose three-year-old child was seen on a viral video smoking and appearing to drink alchohol has been sentenced to community service. Alecia Fogah, 24, had pleaded guilty to neglect charges in October 2020. She was sentenced...
University of the West Indies, Mona, student Joel James has added his voice to calls for the authorities to make farming more attractive to the youth. The St Jago High School past student, who hails from Magil Palms in St Catherine, was among five...
National footballer Corey Burke, who is facing charges of assaulting a constable, is to appear in the St Catherine Parish Court today, where his case is set for mention. On Tuesday, when his matter was called, the absence of a case file irked...
Facing a triple threat of lack of employment, no water and the general ill-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on several areas of life, the residents of Planters Hall and its environs in St Catherine are at their wits’ end. “We have to buy water at $...
A veteran farmer in St Catherine has called for structural reform and increased capital investment in the agriculture sector to harvest greater revenue and export potential. Leroy Delahaye has posited that the haphazard framework of the farming...
Born on January 9, 1919, in Content Gap, St Andrew, Doris Walker was a picture of joy as she celebrated her 102nd birthday with family members and well-wishers in Portmore, St Catherine, recently. As her children, grandchildren, and great-...
Although Paul Calvin Brown has been blind since he was 16 years old, he is still blessed with vision to make an honest living as an avid salesman, inspiring people with his entrepreneurial spirit. The Gleaner caught up with the walking salesman as...
A team of police personnel and charitable assistants brought holiday cheer to the homeless in Kingston and Spanish Town, delivering warm meals to the needy on Christmas Day. Led by Detective Constable O’Keefe Robinson and Constable Lushane Thompson...
St Catherine Chief Public Health Inspector Grayson Hutchinson is warning the public to be vigilant when purchasing meats, so they are not sold products from unregistered slaughterhouses. He said that, despite the parish having 48 registered...
The surge in violent crime plaguing the St Catherine North Police Division is having a crippling effect on business growth and heightening concern about public safety, especially in Bog Walk. This disclosure was made by councillor Peter Abrahams of...
A St Catherine man was freed of three counts of extortion in the Westmoreland Parish Court on December 10, after clearing an identification parade. The accused is Almond Burke, 30, a labourer of Eltham Park in Spanish Town, St Catherine. When the...
Six-year-old Alia Walker beamed with joy as she put her hands on her new tablet as the charity sparked by a viral Gleaner video stirred corporate Jamaica to assist the daughter of a blind couple who have stolen the hearts of readers and viewers for...
Three Clarendon residents were freed in the Clarendon Circuit Court of gun-related charges following a successful no-case submission by their legal team. The accused are Andre Hinds, 34; Raymond Walker, 23; and Andrea Chalmer, 41, of May Pen,...
ONE MILLION dollars. That’s the mind-boggling estimate small farmer Dahlia Nugent-Griffiths has put on the loss of 20 head of goats to thieves who have plundered her herd this year. They made their assault on November 27. Nugent-Griffiths’ story...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness will be ramping up its coronavirus awareness campaign across St Catherine over the next 10 days amid fears of a Christmas and New Year spike from mass gathering over the holiday shopping period The sensitisation...
