The COVID-19 pandemic dealt a blow to Althea Neil, putting a halt to her poultry-rearing business and limiting her ability to properly care for her family. However, she received much-needed help through the outreach of the Kiwanis Club of Young...
A senior member of the police force is rallying Jamaicans to help curb corruption by refusing bribery requests from security personnel. The appeal was made recently by acting head of the St Catherine South Police Division, Superintendent Hopton...
Spanish Town Mayor Norman Scott says vendors have been given permission to sell on some streets in the Old Capital for the holiday season. “We have given the streets to those who depend on vending for a living. I know that we are just getting out...
St Catherine West Central Member of Parliament Dr Christopher Tufton has committed $250,000 to the evening-class programme at the Jubilee Worship Centre in Frazer’s Content. The announcement was made at the launch of the Universal Service Fund (USF...
When 61-year-old Mavette Johnson got word that the St Catherine North police had nabbed a man transporting five goats in a motorcar on Monday, she felt a sense of justice. Johnson, who lives in Angels, St Catherine, where the quick-response team...
Sharon Heslop-Royal struggled to hold back tears on Monday as she looked at her wedding photos taken two decades ago, hours after learning that her husband was one of two security guards killed at a China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) site in...
Dixon’s Pharmacy in Linstead, St Catherine, has been organising a breakfast programme for schoolchildren. The feeding programme, which was initiated three years ago, serves a sumptuous breakfast each Wednesday. Proprietor Robert Demetrius says the...
The 10,000 Men and Their Family Movement which started in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has expanded its reach to include the municipality of Portmore. Scores of residents turned out at the Portmore Climate Change Park in St Catherine Sunday for a...
As part of Youth Month 2022, the National Youth Council of Jamaica and Paramount Trading have partnered to mentor 25 youths in entrepreneurship. The participants drawn from several communities and schools in North West St Catherine are desirous of...
Six-year-old Gabrielle Smith smiled as she accepted her certificate in language arts from teacher Sophia Thomas on November 16. She was one of the students who were awarded at the Portsmouth Primary School in St Catherine for excellence in...
The tasty novelty of stewed food offerings abound at the 16th staging of the Lauriston 4-H Club Festival on November 5. “It is clear that Stew is King here today. We realise that patrons are pleased, but surprised to witness the flexibility of...
Irvin Small, a justice of the peace (JP) and veteran educator of Guy’s Hill High School in St Catherine, is dead. He was 70. Small was principal of the 51-year-old institution from 2008 to 2012, when he retired from the classroom. The stalwart of...
The National Energy Solutions Limited (NESol) multimillion-dollar fraud trial in which five people have been charged is set to continue on Monday, October 31. Those on trial are former employees Rayon Hamilton, Lawrence Pommels, Kimberly Nelson,...
Members of the Kiwanis Club of Diverse Professionals in Portmore, St Catherine, in collaboration with the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica, recently organised a tree-planting exercise at Ascot High School. Lieutenant Governor for Division 23...
A judge in the St Catherine Circuit Court sentenced a 42-year-old woman to six years’ imprisonment after she pleaded guilty to throwing acid on a man. Justice Bertram Morrison imposed the sentence on October 21, and said that the attack was...
Dilapidated road conditions and the absence of piped water have stoked feelings of neglect among the residents of Barry district in St Catherine West Central.The Barry road is a corridor linking Point Hill, Bog Walk, Mendez, and Spanish Town, and...
DESPITE SPENDING more than $20 million to expand the capacity of Big Pond and improve the surrounding drainage, flooding remains a nightmare for residents in the community of the same name located in Bannister, St Catherine. When The Gleaner...
Residents of Bannister and surrounding communities in St Catherine are praying that the forecast torrential rain from a weather system set to affect the island this weekend will not result in the infamous Big Pond heaping another round of flooding...
RESIDENTS OF Parl Road in Waterloo district, St Catherine, say they are plagued by perennial flooding whenever there is rainfall. Both business operators and residents in the eastern St Catherine community are lobbying for the authorities to...
There are hopes for the full recovery of a one-year-old infant who was yesterday found in bushes in St Catherine with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the abdomen, close to the body of her deceased father, who is believed to have committed...
THE FOUNDATION established to honour the memory of Captain Rejorn Campbell, who died in a horrific plane accident on May 3, 2018, has become a source of support for many persons who live in communities surrounding Linstead and Ewarton in St...
The Beecher Foundation has pledged to broaden its outreach programmes to include parenting workshops and seminars to improve child-rearing skills. The initiative, geared towards parents in St Catherine, is scheduled to get under way in November....
A HOMELESS mother of three is pleading for assistance to recover from a fire that destroyed her house and belongings. Yvonne Thompson, whose Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, house was gutted by fire on August 8, said that it’s a day that she will never...
The water quality in the Rio Cobre has been declared suitable for domestic and other use more than a week after effluent contaminated the river, killing hundreds of fish. National Water Commission (NWC) field operations manager for St Catherine,...
DESPITE JAMAICA’S failure to improve its Tier Two human-trafficking ranking by the United States, the Holness administration says it is committed to stamping out the “egregious” crime. “It is very sad that our most vulnerable victims are the...
